A funny thing happened to Eugene Vivino ’16 on the day his landlord’s birds flew away. A woman who was helping to locate them was wearing a jacket with a logo that caught Vivino’s attention: Scripps... READ MORE
A team of ocean scientists, led by chief scientist and Lehigh faculty member Jill McDermott, returned to port March 26 in San Diego from a research expedition in the eastern Pacific Ocean funded by... READ MORE
Joan Ramage, professor of Earth and environmental sciences, was elected chair recently of the Council of Institutions. The Council of Institutions (COI) of Universities Space Research Association (...
The oceans are one of the biggest and most important resources on Earth. They cover more than 70 percent of the planet’s surface and are connected to vital weather and climatic...
Natural disturbances such as tornadoes, ice storms or insect outbreaks can maintain forest diversity by creating a heterogeneous forest ecosystem. Yet, almost all forest landscapes are subject to...
On April 16, 2016, a historic magnitude 7.8 earthquake occurred offshore Ecuador causing extensive damage along the north central coast and leaving the city of Pedernales in ruins. Seismologist Anne...
Mahboubeh Boueshagh never saw snow in her hometown in the Khuzestan Province of south- western Iran. But as a Lehigh Ph.D. student, she is deep into snow—immersed in data in the Department...
A funny thing happened to Eugene Vivino ’16 on the day his landlord’s birds flew away. A woman who was helping to locate them was wearing a jacket with a logo that caught Vivino’s attention: Scripps...
A team of ocean scientists, led by chief scientist and Lehigh faculty member Jill McDermott, returned to port March 26 in San Diego from a research expedition in the eastern Pacific Ocean funded by...
On a late afternoon in September, Michelle Elise Spicer ’12 ’14G, assistant professor of earth and environmental science at Lehigh, donned a white hard hat and harness as she hoisted herself up into...
Meltzer joined colleagues from the Instituo Geofisica at Escuela Politécnica Nacional in Quito to deploy 55 seismometers on land and 10 ocean-bottom seismometers above the rupture zone and adjacent...
Benjamin S. Felzer highlights the importance of new research showing that cleaning up ozone precursors within energy, industrial and transportation sectors could mitigate climate change.
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Edward Evenson, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and distinguished scientist of glacial geology, died August 7 at his home in Mackay, ID. He was 80.