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Professor Gabriel A. Vecchi
Professor of Geosciences and the Princeton Environmental Institute; Deputy Director of Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System; Director, PEI Climate and Energy Grant Challenge
Research Areas
Climate science; extreme weather events; hurricanes; mechanisms of precipitation variability and change; ocean-atmosphere interaction; detection and attribution.
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Monday, Jul 20, 2020On March 31, 2020, the National Science Foundation (NSF) contacted graduate student Devan Nisson to convey that she is a recipient of a 2020 National...
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Friday, Jul 10, 2020
The Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) has selected GEO graduate student Zachary Garvin to be one of the four recipients to receive a 2020...
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Tuesday, Jul 7, 2020
Most people only hear about seismometers in the context of big earthquakes or volcanoes, but the sensitive instruments detect much gentler...
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Friday, Jun 26, 2020
In this two-part virtual workshop, Prof. John Higgins and artists Ian van Coller and Todd Anderson will discuss their collaborative work on an...
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Friday, Jun 26, 2020
Congratulations to Postdoctoral Research Associate Wenchang Yang...
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Monday, Jun 22, 2020With great sadness the Department notes the passing of Rose Rozich Bonini at the age of 94. Rose and her late husband Prof. William “Bill” Bonini (’...
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Tuesday, Jun 9, 2020The Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) has selected seven Princeton University graduate students as 2020 recipients of the Mary and Randall Hack...
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Monday, Jun 8, 2020Several projects that push the boundaries of knowledge and have high potential for impact have been awarded support through Princeton’s Dean for...
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Wednesday, Jun 3, 2020
Princeton University has created a plan for the phased resumption of on-campus laboratory-based research in a safe and orderly manner. The timing of the resumption will be determined by the University’s leadership, taking into account local, state, and national public health guidance and directives. All non-experimental work will continue to be...
Friday, May 29, 2020
The Department of Geosciences and Princeton University congratulates Dr. Joel Simon on successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis: “Recording Earthquakes in the Oceans for Global Seismic Tomography by Freely-Drifting Robots" on Monday, May 11, 2020.
Friday, May 29, 2020
The Department of Geosciences and Princeton University congratulates Dr. Jennifer J. Kasbohm on successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis: “Calibrating Archean and Miocene large igneous province emplacement and geologic timescales with high-precision U-Pb zircon geochronology" on Tuesday, May 5, 2020.
Friday, May 29, 2020
The Department of Geosciences and Princeton University congratulates Dr. Danielle Schlesinger on successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis: “Salting the Earth: Biogeochemical Cycling of Chlorinated and Brominated Natural Organic Compounds in Coastal Ecosystems" on Monday May 4, 2020.
Friday, May 29, 2020
The Department of Geosciences and Princeton University congratulates Dr. Rachel L. Harris on successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis: “Life on the Fringe: Surveying the Ecophysiological Tenacity of Methanogens and Anaerobic Methanotrophs in the Oligotrophic Deep Subsurface Biosphere" on Tuesday, January 28, 2020.
