On the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, EES faculty, Dr. Cary Karacas (CSI) and his colleague Dr. David Fedman, published an op-ed on the National Public Radio website, discussing their research and bilingual digital archive. “With the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings upon us, we would do well to retrieve the burning of Toyama from the margins of public memory. For too long, scholarly predilections and public fascination with the atomic bomb have divorced the mushroom clouds from the firestorms that preceded them. Rather than a sideshow to the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on …
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Prof. Ruth Wilson Gilmore in Prospect Magazine’s list of “The World’s Top 50 Thinkers”
EES faculty, Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore(GC) has been named to the list of “The World’s Top 50 Thinkers” by Prospect Magazine. As “Prospect” revisits the task of identifying the leading minds of the moment, in the intellectual hit parade which we have produced in varying formats since 2004, that test of immediate and real-world relevance looms large. As we compiled our long list—drawing on the advice of distinguished experts in various fields who have written for us over the years—and then whittled it down towards 50, we were struck by how different the list looked from 2019’s. It was at …
EES Publishes: Dr.Dax Soule in Oceanography, “Project EDDIE: Using real data in science classrooms.”
EES faculty, Dr. Dax Soule (Queens) recently published a column in Oceanography: Soule, D. 2020. Project EDDIE: Using real data in science classrooms. Oceanography,33(2). “How does the earth speak to you? Or, perhaps even more importantly, how do you get the earth to speak to your students? As oceanographers, and more broadly as Earth scientists, we know that our planet has a fascinating story to tell, one that is full of an amazing array of interconnected facets. What language does it speak? How do we connect students to this story under normal educational circumstances? How about in the middle of …
Dr. Kennet Flores Reyes to Receive Prestigious National Science Foundation grant.
Dr. Kennet Flores Reyes (Brooklyn) was awarded a National Science Foundation grant ($160,565) to support his research, “Mantle metasomatism during serpentinization in subduction zones: Insights from in-situ boron isotopes.” His award was featured alongside other NSF-winning CUNY colleagues in the CUNY Chancellor’s recent email newsletter. Read more about their work here.
EES Faculty and Students Featured in “13 Scholars Shedding Light on The Roots of Racial Injustice” on the GC website
Three in the EES community were just featured on the Graduate Center’s recent homepage feature: “13 Scholars Shedding Light on the Roots of Racial Injustice” Dr. Setha Low, who has edited a new book, Spaces of Security: Ethnographies of Security-scapes, Surveillance, and Control. EES student Marlene Nava Ramos (advisor, Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, GC),Rather than “criminalizing poverty,” Ramos wants New York City to eliminate its notorious Rikers Island prison complex and all of its jails. And Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Graduate Center) whose inspirational work has long advocated for abolishing prisons. Read more about their work here.
EES publishes: Dr.Brian Brigham publishes study on Anthropogenic inputs from a coastal megacity’s link to greenhouse gas concentrations in the surrounding estuary
This paper by Brian Brigham and Dr. Jeffery Bird of CUNY EES. published in the journal /Limnology and Oceanography/is part of a set of three that has quantified the climate impact (i.e., greenhouse gas emissions) that come from combined sewage overflow dumped into the NYC Hudson River Estuary every year. This very important work quantitatively links the pollution from NYC to the enhanced greenhouse gas footprint of the Hudson River Estuary. The paper is also a deep dive into the existing literature on how coastal cities affect climate change. You can find the link to this article here. You can …
EES graduate Dr. Anna Paltseva wins the Graduate Center Award for Excellence in Teaching
Our very own Dr. Anna Paltseva has been chosen as the recipient of this year’s Graduate Center Award for Excellence in Teaching, the GC’s teaching award for doctoral students! Anna recently defended her dissertation, “Lead and Arsenic Contamination in Urban Soils in New York City,” under the supervision of Prof. Joshua Cheng at Brooklyn College. She has taught a variety of classes including Earth Dynamics, Introduction to Environmental Sciences, Environmental Aspects of Urban Soils, Geographic Information Systems, and Green Infrastructure at Brooklyn College, New York Botanical Gardens, NYU, and more. As Associate Provost Olan writes, “This award recognizes the work …
#EESpublishes: Prof Coch with a Forensic Analysis of the 1893 NYC Hurricane: Implications for the Future.
Professor Coch of Queens College and EES has a new sole authored article out now in the Journal of Coastal Research entitled: Forensic Analysis of the 1893 “New York City” Hurricane: Implications for the Future. Abstract: Examination of an offshore-replenished beach in New York City in 1995 revealed that it contained anthropogenic debris from the distant past. Dating of the debris determined that the archeological items were deposited from a category 1 hurricane that made landfall in New York City on the nights of 23–24 August 1893. This “midnight storm” caused great damage in spite of its relatively low category …
#EESpublishes: Prof. John Marra has a new book on everyone’s favorite carbon isotope C14!
Congratulations to our very own Dr. John Marra (EES, Brooklyn College and GC) on the publication of his new book! Marra, John F. 2019. Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science (New York: Columbia University Press). “There are few fields of science that carbon-14 has not touched. A radioactive isotope of carbon, it stands out for its unusually long half-life. Best known for its application to estimating the age of artifacts—carbon dating—carbon-14 helped reveal new chronologies of human civilization and geological time. Everything containing carbon, the basis of all life, could be placed in time according to the clock …
#EESpublishes: Aaron Davitt and Kyle McDonald on using Soil Moisture & Freeze-Thaw Data to predict Spring-Melt Flood Conditions
EES PhD student Aaron Davitt has first authored a paper with Prof McDonald as a coauthor in the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing entitled: “The Utility of SMAP Soil Moisture and Freeze-Thaw Datasets as Precursors to Spring-Melt Flood Conditions: A Case Study in the Red River of the North Basin” Abstract: We evaluated NASA soil moisture active–passive (SMAP) soil moisture (SM) and freeze-thaw (FT) datasets for the utility to identify FT and SM conditions as precursors to a 2017 spring-melt flood event in the Red River of the North Basin. SMAP FT and …
