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Research Spotlight
Professor Sue Kidwell uses the fossil record from the last thousand years to understand changes in biological baselines due to human populations.
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Bowen studies the climate of early Mars and rocky exoplanets.
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Da Yang is a climate scientist interested in atmospheric convection (thunderstorms), dynamics, and climate change.
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Prof. David Keith interviewed on Big Brains podcast
November 30, 2023
With solutions to climate change being a highly debated topic, Prof. David Keith sits down to lend his expertise to porblem on the Big Brains podcast.
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Graduate students Clepper, Yang, and Sarro selected as Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology by NASA
November 11, 2023
Congratulations to Eric Van Clepper, Xin Yang, and Giorgio Sarro, who have been selected for Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) grants from NASA.
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Undergraduate Emma Heras Wins the Geosciences Snow Competition
November 06, 2023
By guessing that the first snow of the year in Chicago would occur on Halloween, Emma Heras wins the 2023 competition.
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Prof. Tiffany Shaw works in collaboration with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
October 27, 2023
Shaw’s project, “Confronting climate model trends with observations: Extratropical storm tracks and their associated extreme events,” is part of NOAA’s Modeling, Analysis, Predictions and Projections Program, which supports advances in the development and application of Earth system models and analyses to help prepare society for the impacts of climate change.