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Welcome to the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. The department offers undergraduate and graduate degrees and has facilities located on the Morningside Heights campus in Manhattan and at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York.
All alumni and friends of the 7 celebrated retirees pictured above are welcome to join us on Friday, September 12 to celebrate their professorial careers in DEES. If you can make it, please also email us how you will be arriving at Lamont, so we can gauge the extent of parking needs and send instructions if necessary just before the date. If driving, we strongly suggest arriving early to deal with the exigencies of large numbers -- the event should be well attended. (The on-site cafeteria is open for lunch at 12 Noon.) The new Comer Building is open for viewing if you haven't seen it yet -- it's pretty spectacular. The afternoon will begin at 1 PM in Lamont's Monell Auditorium, and proceed after the ceremonials to an adjacent party tent outdoors. Significant others welcome. Dress: just be comfortable. Click here to RSVP, by 8/31/08. We hope to see many of you on September 12! [Check in to this website just after Labor Day for additional information about this event.]
The Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences welcomes Professor Jerry McManus to the full-time Paleoclimate faculty. Jerry, his wife Jennifer, and their twin sons have moved here from Falmouth, MA. They will reside on Morningside, and Jerry will join the geochemistry group at Lamont. All of Jerry's formal academic degrees are from DEES; we are delighted to have him back after more than a decade on the research staff at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Jerry's research focus is the sedimentary record of climate change and ocean circulation, including the processes affecting the creation and preservation of sedimentary archives, the relative influence of internal and external forcing on climatic stability, the role of ocean circulation in rapid climate change, and quantitative reconstruction of the rate and magnitude of past changes
...to Professor Paul Richards (left), new Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and to Professor Paul Olsen (right), new member of the National Academy of Sciences. Well done, Pauls!
We are saddened to report that Professor Emeritus Malcolm C. McKenna, 77, passed away in Boulder, CO on Monday, March 3, 2008. Professor McKenna taught and worked with generations of DEES paleontology graduate students at the American Museum of Natural History from 1960 until his retirement in 2000. More about Professor McKenna's extraordinary career and accomplishments can be found in the official obituary (pdf) from AMNH.
He will be missed by all of his friends, students and colleagues in DEES.
The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory seek applicants for an Assistant Professor position in Oceanography. Download the job posting (pdf).
Dr. Plank received her Ph.D. from the department in 1992. We are happy to welcome her back as a faculty member. Professor Plank studies magmas associated with the plate tectonic cycle, at both divergent and convergent plate margins. Current work focuses on the water content of magmas, and the effects on magma evolution, source composition and explosivity of eruptions.
Dr Abers studies earthquakes, Earth structure, and their relationship to active tectonic processes. Ongoing and upcoming projects explore the use of seismology to image the upper mantle and crust, with emphasis on metamorphism, deformation, melting, and unusual earthquakes in active subduction zones and continental rifts.
Congratulations
to Professor Peter deMenocal !Professor deMenocal was recently notified that he has won a prestigious Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award.
The Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award was created in 2005 when Columbia Trustee Gerry Lenfest '58LAW donated $12 million to the University to establish a new category of awards honoring exceptional teaching in the Arts and Sciences. The awards are given annually to faculty of unusual merit across a range of professorial activities - including scholarship, University citizenship, and professional involvement - with a primary emphasis on the instruction and mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students.
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