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Xinning Zhang in her laboratory. Credit: Sameer A. Khan
How wetlands contribute to climate change
Dec. 17, 2019
Discovery: Research at Princeton.

Xinning Zhang, and her laboratory, studies the role that wetlands play in generating methane, a significant greenhouse gas.

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Giants of Glacial Geology
Dec. 3, 2019
Emeritus Lincoln Hollister historical facts
A slice of an ice core containing hundreds of tiny bubbles, each a whiff of Earth’s atmosphere. Credit: Yuzhen Yan
Antarctic Ice Cores Offer a Whiff of Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere
Nov. 27, 2019
Katherine Kornei, EOS
Bubbles of greenhouse gases trapped in ice shed new light on an important climate transition that occurred about a million years ago.
Base camp. Photo by Sean Mackay, Boston University
Two million-year-old ice cores provide first direct observations of an ancient climate
Nov. 22, 2019
Morgan Kelly
Princeton University-led researchers have extracted 2 million-year-old ice cores from Antarctica that provide the first direct observations of Earth’s climate at a time when the furred early ancestors of modern humans still roamed.
Microscopic image of devil worm, magnified 200x. Courtesy John Bracht.
What Can a Small Worm Teach Us About Climate Adaptation?
Nov. 21, 2019
Rebecca Basu, American University

American University researchers sequence genome of the 'devil worm.'

Cars driving through a flooded highway, Courtesy of Princeton Communication
Why are big storms bringing so much more rain? Warming, yes, but also winds
Oct. 30, 2019
Molly Sharlach, Office of Engineering Communications
For three hurricane seasons in a row, storms with record-breaking rainfall have caused catastrophic flooding in the southern United States: Harvey in 2017, Florence in 2018 and Imelda in 2019.
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Congratulations to Dr. Yuzhen Yan for successfully defending his Ph.D. Thesis
Oct. 30, 2019
Georgette Chalker

The Department of Geosciences and Princeton University congratulates Dr. Yuzhen Yan on successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis: "Climate Snapshots and Gas Records from Antarctic Blue Ice Records: Implications for the Mid-Pleistocene Transition and the Last Intreglacial" on Monday, October 28, 2019.

The ocean as a buffer to climate change
The ocean as a buffer to climate change
Oct. 29, 2019
Princeton Enviromental Institute
Professors Laure Resplandy and Daniel Sigman explain how the ocean absorbs heat and carbon dioxide, providing a buffer against climate change. Researchers are modeling the long-term impacts to marine ecosystems and climate. (Video by Video Production Support and the Office of Communications)
Storm surge: Future hazard and defense model
Storm surge: Future hazard and defense
Oct. 29, 2019
Princeton Environmental Institute
Princeton professors Gabriel Vecchi and Sigrid Adriaenssens are investigating new storm surge barrier designs that would protect people, businesses and infrastructure from destructive winds and water. (Video by Video Production Support and the Office of Communications)

 

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Congratulations to Dr. Danielle Priscilla Santiago Ramos for successfully defending her Ph.D. Thesis
Oct. 15, 2019
Georgette Chalker

The Department of Geosciences and Princeton University congratulates Dr. Danielle Priscilla Santiago Ramos on successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis: "Potassium Cycling in Seawater and Teleosts: Insights from Stable Potassium Isotopes (41K/39K)" on Thursday, October 10, 2019.

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Congratulations to Dr. Rajkrishna Dutta for successfully defending his Ph.D. Thesis
Oct. 8, 2019

The Department of Geosciences and Princeton University congratulates Dr. Rajkrishna Dutta on successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis: "High-Pressure Studies of Oxides and Fluorides: Analogs for Ultra-High Pressure Behavior of Planetary Silicates" on Monday, September 30, 2019.

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PEI Faculty Seminar: "Climatic Influences on Tropical Cyclones and Their Severity"
Oct. 2, 2019
Princeton Environmental Institute
Gabriel Vecchi, professor of geosciences and the Princeton Environmental Institute, presents “Climatic Influences on Tropical Cyclones and Their Severity.” He discusses how natural and human-made factors have combined to change the activity and impacts of tropical cyclones, among the deadliest and costliest natural hazards on our planet. He draws on research using observations, theoretical constructs, and climate-model experiments to explore how tropical cyclones in a warmer future will compare to those of the past.
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Congratulations to Dr. Scott Angus Maclennan for successfully defending his Ph.D. Thesis
Sept. 30, 2019

The Department of Geosciences and Princeton University congratulates Dr. Scott Angus Maclennan on successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis: "Temporal Constraints on Archean Crustal Geodynamics and Neoproterozoic Glaciation" on Friday, September 27, 2019.

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Geosciences Launch Mobile-friendly Accessible Website
Sept. 30, 2019
Georgette Chalker
On September 19, 2019 the Department of Geosciences (GEO) at Princeton University launched a new website (geosciences.princeton.edu) that is mobile-ready and provides new accessible features.