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Welcome to the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. The department offers undergraduate and graduate degrees and has facilities located on the Morningside Heights campus in Manhattan and at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York.
...to Professor Paul Richards (left), new Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and to Professor Paul Olsen (right), new member of the National Academy of Sciences. Well done, Pauls!
We are saddened to report that Professor Emeritus Malcolm C. McKenna, 77, passed away in Boulder, CO on Monday, March 3, 2008. Professor McKenna taught and worked with generations of DEES paleontology graduate students at the American Museum of Natural History from 1960 until his retirement in 2000. More about Professor McKenna's extraordinary career and accomplishments can be found in the official obituary (pdf) from AMNH.
He will be missed by all of his friends, students and colleagues in DEES.
The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory seek applicants for an Assistant Professor position in Oceanography. Download the job posting (pdf).
Dr. Plank received her Ph.D. from the department in 1992. We are happy to welcome her back as a faculty member. Professor Plank studies magmas associated with the plate tectonic cycle, at both divergent and convergent plate margins. Current work focuses on the water content of magmas, and the effects on magma evolution, source composition and explosivity of eruptions.
Dr Abers studies earthquakes, Earth structure, and their relationship to active tectonic processes. Ongoing and upcoming projects explore the use of seismology to image the upper mantle and crust, with emphasis on metamorphism, deformation, melting, and unusual earthquakes in active subduction zones and continental rifts.
Congratulations
to Professor Peter deMenocal !Professor deMenocal was recently notified that he has won a prestigious Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award.
The Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award was created in 2005 when Columbia Trustee Gerry Lenfest '58LAW donated $12 million to the University to establish a new category of awards honoring exceptional teaching in the Arts and Sciences. The awards are given annually to faculty of unusual merit across a range of professorial activities - including scholarship, University citizenship, and professional involvement - with a primary emphasis on the instruction and mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students.
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