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A Catastrophic Career
Discover Magazine, NY - Nov 22, 2008
Michael Purdy, the director of Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, kicked off the event by explaining that Alvarez was winning the award ...(author unknown)

Changing winds affect ice shelves
environmentalresearchweb, UK - Nov 21, 2008
Indeed, a US cruise early next year, led by team member Stan Jacobs of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, will continue oceanographic observations on the ...(author unknown)

CBC.ca
Wallace Broecker: How to calm an angry beast
CBC.ca, Canada - Nov 19, 2008
By Eve Savory CBC News Wallace Broecker, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory professor and co-author of Fixing Climate. (Steve Porter)"The climate system is an ...(author unknown)

Lamont-Doherty scientists invite region's students to explore a ...
Lower Hudson Journal news, NY - Nov 13, 2008
Today, scientists from Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades went on their way to the ice sheet, about 500 miles from nowhere ...
Crew explores peaks beneath Antarctic ice Lower Hudson Journal news
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Scientists say a rock can soak up carbon dioxide
Reuters UK, UK - 10 hours ago
The scientists, who are both at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in New York, say they have kick-started peridotite's carbon storage ...(author unknown)

Scientists chase quakes
York Daily Record, PA - Oct 24, 2008
By TERESA ANN BOECKEL John Armbruster, a scientist with Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, digs a hole Thursday to place a seismograph ...(author unknown)

Earthquake Zone Intersection Threatens Indian Point Nuclear Plant
NBC Chicago, IL - Oct 22, 2008
Researchers from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory have located a previously unknown active seismic zone running from Stamford, ...(author unknown)

Huge mountain range shouldn't be there
MSNBC - Oct 21, 2008
Robin Bell of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in New York, who shares the leadership of the US science effort, said AGAP will help ...(author unknown)

UC Berkeley
Geologist Walter Alvarez receives top earth sciences award
UC Berkeley, CA - Oct 21, 2008
Announced Oct. 16 by Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the award is given "for scientific achievement resulting in a clearer ...
UC Berkeley Professor Awarded for Research on Dinosaur Extinction Daily Californian
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Dillsburg shaking confirmed as quake
The Patriot-News - PennLive.com, PA - Oct 20, 2008
Mitch Gold of the Lamont-Doherty Cooperative Seismographic Network at Columbia University called the earthquake minor and estimated its magnitude at 2.1. ...(author unknown)

National Science Foundation (press release)
US-Led, International AGAP Team Poised to Probe One of ...
National Science Foundation (press release) - Oct 14, 2008
View a video interview with Robin Bell and Michael Studinger of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. A US-led, multinational team of ...(author unknown)

Discover Magazine
Expedition set for 'ghost peaks'
BBC News, UK - Oct 14, 2008
"There are two easy ways to make mountains," explained Dr Robin Bell, from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, who is a lead US researcher on the ...
Researchers Set To Map Mountain Range Covered In Ice RedOrbit
Origin of Alps-size Antarctic mountain range unknown EurekAlert (press release)
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Palaeoclimate: Africa on the edge
Nature.com (subscription), UK - Oct 13, 2008
Peter B. deMenocal is in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Geoscience 211, ...(author unknown)

Student scientists on Hudson River to study ecology
Lower Hudson Journal news, NY - Oct 7, 2008
The core samples will be analyzed by Lamont-Doherty and be posted online in a few weeks, she said. One area investigated by students yesterday was the ...(author unknown)

Minor earthquake shakes northern York County
PennLive.com, PA - Oct 6, 2008
Sunday's earthquake was reported by both the National Earthquake Information Center in Colorado and seismologists at Lamont-Doherty. ...(author unknown)

Hudson Water Improving, Researchers Say
CU Columbia Spectator, NY - Sep 19, 2008
Since 2006, Doctors Gregory O’Mullan, Andrew Juhl, and Ray Sambrotto—all researchers with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory—have tested the waters of the ...(author unknown)

A global brotherhood
Lower Hudson Journal news, NY - Sep 12, 2008
Another prestigious award for a Lamont-Doherty scientist reminds us of the precious resource we have in our own backyard. Wallace S. Broecker, a geochemist ...(author unknown)

If Climate Changes, It May Change Quickly
New York Times Blogs, NY - Sep 12, 2008
''The climate system is an angry beast and we are poking it with sticks,'' said Dr. Wallace S. Broecker of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth ...(author unknown)

Rockland scientist wins global award
Lower Hudson Journal news, NY - Sep 9, 2008
Wallace S. Broecker, a geochemist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, a part of Columbia University in Palisades, won the prestigious Balzan Prize, ...(author unknown)

Fear Factor: Is NOLA Ready for Katrina Part 2?
KBMT ABC 12, TX - Aug 29, 2008
For Klaus Jacob, a special research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, it's more complicated. ...(author unknown)