Kim Cobb awarded Sigma Xi "Best Faculty Paper Award" for her 2013 Science paper "Highly Variable El Nino-Southern Oscillation through the Holocene".
DiLorenzo and Ohman research on marine ecosystem variability featured in PNAS [Link]
Thanos Nenes and Terry Lathem find that surfactants from the gas phase may promote cloud formation [Link]
T. Lathem, A. Nenes and M. Bergin find substantial microorganism populations in the upper troposphere. [Link]
Peter Webster and Kris Shrestha on predicting floods in Pakistan [Link]
Kim Cobb, Hussein Sayani et al. in Science on detecting ENSO activity over the past 7000 years from corals. [Link]
Peter Webster in Nature on improving weather forecasts for the developing world. [Link]
James Wray reports that clay on Mars is more plentiful than expected. [Link]
Xiaolu Zhang, Jiumeng Liu, Eric Parker and Rodney Weber provide new evidence for secondary organic aerosols formation through an equilibrium partitioning process. [Link]
EAS alumnus Julia Diaz (advisor E. Ingall) has received a NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship to work at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
Current News
Manu DiLorenzo on the impact of Pacific climate patterns on fish stocks and ocean nutrient distributions in the "Wild Pacific" documentary series on Animal Planet.
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Ilias Foudalis (advised by A. Bracco) won the Student Competition of the 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science at the AMS 92nd Annual Meeting held in New Orleans.
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Kim Cobb and collaborators in Science on new stalagmite research suggesting Earth has two modes of responding to climate change
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Zhen Liu and Yuhang Wang find a factor of 5-6 increase in aromatics emissions from China, contributing to formation of oxidants and secondary organic aerosols.
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Carol Paty on NPR Marketplace discusses NASA probes to study weather in outer space
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Joe Dufek in Our Amazing Planet on the fall-out (pumice vs ash) from volcanic eruptions
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Andy Newman in Nature News on monitoring volcanic activity at Santorini
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Joe Dufek receives the 2012 Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union
Thanos Nenes receives the Ascent Award from the Atmospheric Sciences section of the American Geophysical Union
Jean Lynch-Stieglitz and Kate Wejnert collect sediment cores from the Line Islands Ridge
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