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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

Scientists Find Five New Hydrothermal Vents in Pacific Ocean

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

Michelle Spicer Trains Student Mentees in Tree Climbing Safety to Help in Research Work

Joan Ramage Elected to Leadership Position at Universities Space Research Association

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 (...

Lehigh’s Deep Dive into Ocean Science

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...

Understory Regeneration

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...

A man observes the aftermath of the earthquake that struck Pedernales, Ecuador.

Understanding megathrust earthquakes

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...

Is It Too Warm To Snow?

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 trip to the arctic

Scientists Find Five New Hydrothermal Vents in Pacific Ocean

Michelle Spicer Trains Student Mentees in Tree Climbing Safety to Help in Research Work

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...

Laying the Groundwork

Environmental policy student works to help preserve the local environment while developing important restoration policies

Christina Thomas fell in love with economics and how it can be used to lay...

Seismologist Anne Meltzer Helped Lead Rapid Response to the Pedernales Earthquake in Ecuador

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...

Another Reason to Reduce Man-made Ozone: To Cool a Warming Planet

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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Subduction Top to Bottom 2 (ST2B-2) Taking Shape in GEOSPHERE

Subduction Top to Bottom 2 (ST2B-2) Taking Shape in GEOSPHERE
Subduction zones are where lithosphere is recycled into Earth’s mantle along ~55,000 km length of convergent plate margins (at...

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