Einat Lev at Chile's Villarrica Volcano
🌋 On Sat Mar 7 1pm ET, join LDEO volcanologist @einatlev.bsky.social LIVE on her YouTube (youtube.com/@einatlev) from Chile's Villarrica Volcano where the AVERT project (avert.ldeo.columbia.edu) is working to improve volcano monitoring and eruption forecasting!
Columbia Morningside Campus and NYC. Credit: Eileen Barroso, Columbia University
📣 Job Alert! Columbia Climate School seeks Lecturer in Discipline of Climate with expertise in climate change mitigation, adaptation, climate justice, and/or climate & food systems to teach within our interdisciplinary degree programs. ➡️ Learn more/apply (and please share!): https://bit.ly/4ss3dJf
The 2025 Dean’s Graduate Scholars: Adrianna Leon, Madison Malthaner, Alyssa Plascencia, Fabricio Correa Lara, Tracy Obirika, Zachary Desrosiers-Victorin, Dheeraj Babariya and Angie Sillah. Credit: Alfred Ayoub
👏 Meet our inaugural Dean's Graduate Scholars, 8 MS in Climate (https://bit.ly/4u9S5Tf) students with diverse backgrounds, from engineering & policy to data science & environmental justice, who are united by a shared commitment to advancing climate solutions around the world: https://bit.ly/3OS0xWV
Joerg Schaefer on Grey Glacier, Patagonia in March 2024. Credit: Jacky Austermann
On Mar 25 6-8pm ET, join us for Climate and Ice: From Rising Seas to Shrinking Mountain Glaciers, with LDEO geochemist Joerg Schaefer who will explore how fast ice is melting, where it is changing most rapidly, and how we can respond to these challenges. RSVP: https://bit.ly/4b8S9K7
Students during a drone workshop at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, led by Kytt MacManus and Greg Yetman. Credit: Kytt MacManus
In Building Climate Justice: Co-Creative Coastal Resilience Planning, students worked in interdisciplinary teams with community organizations South Bronx Unite and Staten Island Urban Center on a new kind of climate action that is technical, deeply human, and collaborative: https://bit.ly/4bq2bI1
Panel discussion titled "Asia at the Forefront: Market-Based Solutions for Mitigating Climate Change." Hosted by Asia Society Policy Institute and Columbia Climate School. Tuesday, March 10, 6-7 PM EST, In-Person. Features panelists Adam Tooze, Akshat Rathi, Cassie Flynn, and moderator Alexis Abramson.
On Mar 10, join @asiapolicy.asiasociety.org & @climate.columbia.edu for conversation on advancing market-based solutions for mitigating climate change with Dean Alexis Abramson, UNDP's @cassieflynn.bsky.social, @bloomberg.com's @akshatrathi.bsky.social, Columbia's Adam Tooze: https://bit.ly/4aXZDRb
An AI generated image of a women standing by data banks in an AI data center. Credit: franganillo/Pixabay
Unless women’s lived realities are embedded in AI's foundations, it risks reinforcing the very inequities it claims to solve, write @climate.columbia.edu postdoc Pavithra Priyadarshini Selvakumar & @lamont.columbia.edu climate scientist Marco Tedesco. Via State of the Planet: https://bit.ly/4rdmvkQ
Image of 4 people in business attire viewing a map on a large screen with text Enroll Now: Disaster Risk Workshop. Transform uncertainly into opportunity: Practical skills to lead resilient organizations. climate.columbia.edu/professional-learning
Gain practical skills to lead resilient organizations in our 7-week, virtual professional learning workshop taught by professor Jeff Schlegelmilch, director of @ncdp.bsky.social. Learn More/Register by March 11, 2026: www.climate.columbia.edu/climate-and-...
Growing movement shows that protecting the world's forests—and the Indigenous people who safeguard them—is one of most powerful but overlooked tools in fight against climate change. Insights from @ccsi-columbia.bsky.social expert @hansikaagrawal.bsky.social. Via @bigthink.com. https://bit.ly/3MScZoQ
LDEO IcePod flying aboard a transport aircraft 1,500 feet above the Ross Sea in Antarctica with text Marine & Polar Geophysics
Job alert! Marine & Polar Geophysics division of @lamont.columbia.edu seeks senior staff associate to contrive, design, develop, optimize, and enhance complex data systems operated by the Lamont Geoinformatics Research Group. Please share! ➡️ https://academic.careers.columbia.edu/#!/163855
Climate scientist @wxpizza.bsky.social of @ncdp.bsky.social is watching how forecasters factor AI predictions into public storm warnings. "Even if models are considered better or high quality, decision-making is not necessarily simplified," he says. Via @bloomberg.com. https://bloom.bg/401O6dt
Five critical roles for establishing and maintaining fair and accountable planning spaces. Credit: Resilient Coastal Communities Project
The Resilient Coastal Communities Project, a partnership between Columbia Climate School's Center for Sustainable Urban Development and @nycejalliance.bsky.social, outlines fair and accountable resilience planning that prioritizes local needs and experience: https://bit.ly/4qXHJmr
Join us and @climate.columbia.edu on March 10 for an expert panel discussion on the path to advancing market-based solutions for mitigating climate change in Asia, featuring @adamtooze.bsky.social, @akshatrathi.bsky.social & @cassieflynn.bsky.social, in conversation with Dean Alexis Abramson.
Images of trees, wind turbines, smokestacks, a hurricane, financial growth chart with text "Degrowth vs. Green Growth: Can capitalism solve climate change?" Part of the Perspectives Dialogue Series by Columbia Climate School and Columbia Journalism School. Scheduled for March 9, 2026 5-7pm.
Can capitalism solve climate change? On Mar 9, join our Dean Alexis Abramson and @columbiajournalism.bsky.social Dean @jelaniya.bsky.social for a dialogue with @katearonoff.bsky.social (@newrepublic.com), Aniket Shah, Chris Van de Voorde, and Archana Shah. Learn more/RSVP: https://bit.ly/4qVH7xA
Hands cupped together holding soil with text Soil Screening by High School Students to Map Lead Contamination from Mining in Peru, new in GeoHealth
Using simple test, ~2,000 HS students checked soil for lead in 3 mining-impacted towns in Peru, finding widespread contamination, gaining valuable science skills, raising community awareness. Study by LDEO geochemist Lex Van Geen & colleagues via @geohealthjournal.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/4cB6gtV
This week's air quality dip in NYC is connected to temperature fluctuation, says LDEO expert @dwesty.bsky.social. Recent cold/snow created a "temperature inversion" where temps near ground became cooler than those above, causing pollutants to build up. Via @nytimes.com. https://nyti.ms/3OADZty
On March 10, join @asiapolicy.asiasociety.org and @climate.columbia.edu for an expert panel discussion on the path to advancing market-based solutions for mitigating climate change with @adamtooze.bsky.social, @akshatrathi.bsky.social, and Alexis Abramson.
Panel discussion titled "Asia at the Forefront: Market-Based Solutions for Mitigating Climate Change." Hosted by Asia Society Policy Institute and Columbia Climate School. Tuesday, March 10, 6-7 PM EST, In-Person. Features panelists Adam Tooze, Akshat Rathi, Cassie Flynn, and moderator Alexis Abramson.
On Mar 10, join @asiapolicy.asiasociety.org & @climate.columbia.edu for conversation on advancing market-based solutions for mitigating climate change with Dean Alexis Abramson, UNDP's @cassieflynn.bsky.social, @bloomberg.com's @akshatrathi.bsky.social, Columbia's Adam Tooze: https://bit.ly/4aXZDRb
Shubham Deshmukh
Where economies still rely on fossil fuels, the carbon market targets an uncomfortable question: What do we do with the emissions we can't eliminate? Shubham Deshmukh, Columbia SUMA alum, tackles how carbon markets can finance climate action from project development to policy: https://bit.ly/4azpayM
Caucasus Mountains, Georgia. Credit: Thomas Hammond, Wikimedia Commons
Targeting accelerating glacier melt in 9 glacier-dependent developing countries, @greenclimate.fund approved funding for Glaciers to Farms, with co-financing from @adb.org, offering a compelling example of large-scale climate finance for adaptation. Via GlacierHub: https://bit.ly/3OfqCiu
Text-based tool demo simulating two-way communication in the event of storms and evacuation
In partnership with Tribal leaders, emergency managers, and community organizers, a collaborative @ncdp.bsky.social project aims to design disaster communication systems that reflect the priorities, knowledge systems, and lived realities of Tribal Nations: https://bit.ly/3ZHqCdr
🌋 LDEO volcanologists Terry Plank and @einatlev.bsky.social are in full prep mode for their upcoming trip to Chile's Villarrica Volcano. They'll join Chilean colleagues on the summit along with other members of AVERT (avert.ldeo.columbia.edu) to install instruments. Next stop: the crater rim!
Large patches of Sargassum adrift near the island of Saint Martin. Credit: VELY Michel via Wikimedia Commons
Using AI, a comprehensive study by a team including LDEO biological oceanographer Joaquim Goes found that global floating algae is expanding, likely due to changes to ocean temperature, currents, & nutrients, which could have negative impacts on ecosystems, tourism, economies: https://bit.ly/4aGNcrO
Group of Columbia Climate School in the Green Mountains students birdwatching. Credit: Sarah Wagner
😃 HS students, prepare to be amazed this summer at Columbia Climate School in Green Mountains, and get empowered to drive change for a sustainable future! 📅 RSVP for Feb 19 virtual info session with alum Aisosa Obadiaru and @ccsi-columbia.bsky.social's Martin Dietrich Brauch: https://bit.ly/48Vyxbc
Insurance co-generation session in Ethiopia. Credit: Daniel Osgood
🌍Can we scale index insurance that helps people globally?@ncdp.bsky.social expert Daniel Osgood examined this Hot Topic with our students.
🤔Osgood's thoughts: https://bit.ly/3ZJxI14
💡Presentation: https://bit.ly/4qB6a8X
📊Student feedback: https://bit.ly/4kHBSjR
📝Your input: https://bit.ly/4rEyx7T
We are excited to join the esteemed international community of colleagues in the United Nations' Santiago Network by providing technical assistance on disaster loss and damage. santiago-network.org/about/members
@climate.columbia.edu @undrr.bsky.social
Apollonia Arellano on a research cruise aboard the R/V Celtic Explorer, where she helped collect marine sediment cores along a transect from Ireland to Greenland. Credit: Allison Jacob
🌊 PhD student and paleoceanographer Apollonia Arellano of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory uses geochemical analyses to reconstruct deep ocean circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean. #IDWGIS Learn more: https://lamont.columbia.edu/news/women-science-paleoceanographer-apollonia-arellano
Terry Plank on the Poás Volcano in Costa Rica in spring 2025. Credit: Geoffroy Avard
🌋 Award-winning geochemist and volcanologist Terry Plank of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory studies the phenomena shaping the Earth's crust and how they affect the world's volcanoes. #IDWGIS Learn more:
https://lamont.columbia.edu/news/women-science-geochemist-terry-plank
💘 "On a holiday dedicated to expressing care & appreciation, it's worth it to take a moment to find a gift that truly expresses care–for the recipient, for the people who made it, & for the planet," says Sandra Goldmark, our assoc dean for engagement & impact. Via ABC News. https://bit.ly/3ZylxEn
Gisela Winckler aboard the R/V Joides Resolution in the South Pacific. Credit: C. Alvarez Zarikian
🚢 Gisela Winckler, Columbia Climate School professor of climate and @lamont.columbia.edu climate scientist, focuses on the history and causes of climate variability, as well the ocean's role in the climate system and the carbon cycle. #IDWGIS Via State of the Planet: https://bit.ly/4awivFo
