Climate Change and the Environment
Drawing on our expertise in environmental sciences and through our transnational partnerships, A&S faculty and students are driving new solutions to extreme weather events, food insecurity and public health crises. We also work to translate the science into actionable knowledge and practical policies to support resiliency and adaptation locally and around the globe.
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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.
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July 26, 2024 Green Teaching Summit: A Humanities Approach to Climate EducationFaculty connect, learn about campus climate and ecology resources at the Green Teaching Summit convened by Tolley Professor Mike Goode at Syracuse University’s Minnowbrook Conference Center.
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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.
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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.
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April 30, 2024 A&S Biologist Calls for Protection and More Studies of Natural Time Capsules of Climate ChangeAncient rodent nests—or middens—offer critical ecological and evolutionary archives of the last 50,000 years. Katie Becklin helps lead an effort for midden preservation and study.
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March 22, 2024 Other Ways of Seeing: Understanding Ecology and Climate Through ArtA team of Syracuse University faculty, students and staff create learning materials for educators and students, using the SU Art Museum’s vast collection of objects and artworks.
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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.
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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.
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Sept. 21, 2023 Grants from the Engaged Humanities Network Support 11 Community-Oriented ProjectsThe interdisciplinary projects, which include faculty and students from schools, colleges and units across Syracuse University, explore a range of contemporary topics such as environmental justice, Indigenous language preservation and fermentation.
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Aug. 30, 2023 Exploring the Existence of Life at 125°FA&S biologists study the mechanisms that have allowed microbial eukaryotes to thrive in the extreme conditions of a geothermal lake.
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Aug. 23, 2023 How Climate Warming Could Disrupt a Deep-Rooted RelationshipResearchers from Syracuse University and the University of Minnesota find that warming trends will likely result in major disturbances of networks of fungi potentially harming forest resilience.
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July 31, 2023 Sea Urchins Are Struggling to ‘Get a Grip’ as Climate Change Alters EcosystemsSyracuse University researchers explore how excess freshwater from climate change-associated events such as increased torrential rainstorms are impacting sea urchin survival.
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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.
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June 12, 2023 A Machine Learning Approach to Freshwater AnalysisResearchers at Syracuse University and Texas A&M use computer modeling to find out the sources of salinization and alkalinization in U.S. watersheds.
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May 19, 2023 Testing Boreal Forests’ Blood PressureA&S professor Melissa Chipman was awarded National Science Foundation grant funding to study the ancient geochemistry of Arctic forests to understand interactions between boreal fire and climate change.
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March 28, 2023 Uniting the Community in the Pursuit of Environmental JusticeThe Environmental Storytelling Series of CNY brings together faculty, students and local community partners to address the climate crisis through creative outlets.
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March 3, 2023 Rare Isotopes Help Unlock Mysteries in the Argentine AndesResearchers from Syracuse University’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences published a study documenting erosion rates in the Andes Mountains.
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Jan. 23, 2023 Rock-Solid Data: Friendship Helps Lead to Discovery of Tectonic History of Subglacial AntarcticaPaul Fitzgerald and a longtime friend-turned-scientific-collaborator published the study in Nature Communications.
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Dec. 23, 2022 Nature-Inspired Designs Could Offer Solutions for Global ChallengesSyracuse physics professor is leading an effort to translate research into real-world applications.
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Dec. 21, 2022 Researchers Reject 30-year-old Paradigm: The Emergence of Forests Did Not Reduce the Amount of Carbon Dioxide in the AtmosphereAccording to new research from a team of earth scientists including EES Professor Christopher Junium, smaller plants may have reduced carbon dioxide levels on Earth before the evolution of large forests.