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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.
In the News
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Monday, May 18, 2020Local variations in climate are not likely to dominate the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Princeton University study published...
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Friday, May 15, 2020Princeton sent the students home at the time of the spring semester break (13 March) and soon we were all working and teaching from home. Now that...
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Monday, May 11, 2020What exactly killed the dinosaurs? It's a mystery. Features interviews with Gerta Keller and Jahnavi Punekar *15.
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Monday, Apr 6, 2020The coronavirus pandemic has stalled scientific fieldwork and may even start to affect the monitoring of the climate, scientists have warned. Gabriel...
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Monday, Mar 16, 2020How did a 1,000 minerals from England become the foundation of our department's collection today?
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Tuesday, Feb 25, 2020The Guyot Hall seismometer recorded two of the sequence of planned construction blasting events at Princeton University.
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Friday, Feb 14, 2020In the closing days of the decade, The Office of Sustainability asked two Princeton University undergraduates how they're feeling about climate...
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Friday, Feb 14, 2020As of Friday, Feb. 14, paleoclimate professor John Higgins' video has received a record 3.3 million views and 7,300 retweets on his twitter feed.
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Thursday, Jan 30, 2020Congratulations to AOS Graduate Student Yi Zhang who recently won an Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA) at AGU's 2019 Fall Meeting for her...
More recent articles
Wednesday, Jan 29, 2020
The Department of Geosciences and Princeton University congratulates Dr. Leah Langer on successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis: "Impact of Topography on Coseismic Modeling and Earthquake Static Slip Inversion" on Tuesday, January 28, 2020.
Monday, Jan 13, 2020
On Nov. 8, Emily Geyman ’19, had one chapter of her senior thesis: “How do Shallow Carbonates Record Sea Level and Seawater Chemistry?” published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) journal. Geyman graduated from the University with an A.B. degree in geosciences. Geyman’s thesis focused on...
Monday, Jan 13, 2020
Floodwaters are rising higher and more frequently in Venice because of global climate change. Princeton’s Michael Oppenheimer speaks with CBS reporter John Dickerson on 60 Minutes about the major reason we will see more floods for the ages across the globe.
Tuesday, Dec 17, 2019
Xinning Zhang, and her laboratory, studies the role that wetlands play in generating methane, a significant greenhouse gas.
