11/07/2017: Professor Howard Lasker will journey to the Caribbean island of St. John this month to study the impact of hurricanes Irma and Maria on coral reefs in the region.
10/17/2017: The department would like to welcome Kristin Poinar, a NASA climate scientist whose study on giant cracks in the Greenland Ice Sheet made headlines worldwide in early 2017.
09/25/2017: Underground stockpiles of water — housed in layers of porous rock called aquifers — are one of the world’s most important sources of drinking water.
9/5/2017: Fishermen, boaters and other outdoor enthusiasts text data on river levels and temperature to scientists. Then, the project team feeds this and other information into a computer model that generates a 7-day forecast of water conditions.