DEES is proud to announce that Sarah Smith was named the 2023 recipient of the Edward Prince Goldman Scholarship in Science from The New York Community Trust.
This award is given annually to Natural Science graduate students.
Come to our Open House to hear about our current majors, newly proposed climate majors, and getting involved in research!
We encourage you to look over the different majors and concentrations DEES offers, including our new Climate System Science major.
Announcing a new major launched in partnership with the Columbia Climate School: the major in Climate System Science, in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. For students who want to understand the past, present, and future climate system and learn strategies for solving the climate crisis.
DEES Professor and Lamont scientist Steven L. Goldstein was selected as one of the 2022 recipients of the Great Teacher Award, presented by the Society of Columbia Graduates.
Congratulations to our students who successfully defended their dissertation during the 2021-2022 academic year!
Every year DEES bestows two awards to students in our graduating class. The first is Departmental Honors, and the second is the Walter C. Pitman III award.
DEES Ph.D. student, Elise Myers, was selected by the Columbia University Trustees and Columbia Alumni Association as a winner of the 2021 Campbell Award. Read more about Elise and the award here.
DEES Professor and Lamont researcher Sidney Hemming was the winner of the 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship. Read her interview about this achievement on Columbia's State of the Planet.
DEES Professor and Lamont researcher Jacky Austermann was selected as a 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Earth System Science.
DEES Professor and Lamont scientist Ryan Abernathey was one of three recipients to receive the Early Career Award from The Oceanography Society.
Two DEES faculty received awards at the 2020 AGU Fall Meeting. Galen McKinley received the Ocean Sciences Voyager award, and Arnold Gordon the Harald Sverdrup Lecture.
Lamont Research Professor and DEES faculty member Gisela Winckler was awarded the Excellence in Research Award by the Petersen Foundation in a virtual award ceremony this week.