News
(Sept. 11, 2024)
Spring Disappearance and Backyard Flooding? A&S Researchers Explore if Climate Change and/or Human Intervention are to BlameA faculty and student team from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences is installing urban stream monitoring stations to investigate how extreme precipitation and other factors are affecting a Syracuse waterway.
(June 27, 2024)
Scientists Untangle Interactions Between the Earth’s Early Life Forms and the Environment over 500 million YearsSyracuse University Thonis Family Professor Zunli Lu leads an interdisciplinary group exploring how biology and the physical environment co-evolved.
(June 17, 2024)
What’s Driving Increased Rainfall in the Eastern U.S.?Thonis Family Professor Tripti Bhattacharya and postdoctoral researcher David Fastovich have received a three-year, $547,000 NSF grant to explore how ancient climate data can inform future forecasting.
(Jan. 17, 2024)
New Faces, Rising Stars Join A&S in Spring 2024Meet the new professors teaching in the College of Arts and Sciences this spring.
(Nov. 20, 2023)
Bedrock of Success: Female Earth and Environmental Sciences Scholars Carry on a Legacy of MentorshipEES Professor Linda Ivany ’88 and her former graduate student Christy Visaggi G’04 were recently recognized by the Association for Women Geoscientists for their excellence in research and teaching.
(Oct. 10, 2023)
Five NSF Grants Fund Syracuse University Researchers’ Work with Cosmic ExplorerResearchers from the University’s new Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy and Astrophysics are at the intellectual center of the next-generation observatory.
(Oct. 3, 2023)
SU Paleoclimatologists Use Ancient Sediment to Explore Future Climate in AfricaIn a study published in Geophysical Research Letters, researchers used chemicals from preserved plant matter to pinpoint the processes responsible for changes in past rainfall and drought in southwestern Africa, with implications for the future.
(June 27, 2023)
A New Way Forward for Orphaned Oil and Gas WellsEES Professor Tao Wen collaborates on a project evaluating the environmental risks and opportunities for managing millions of abandoned oil and gas wells.