Ideas set in motion can change the world. From recognizing our deep connection with the Earth and environment, to innovations that make sustainability possible, to people who inspire new ways of
A Lehigh geology professor and two students spent a month this summer studying the Altai Mountains in western Mongolia and returned to Bethlehem profoundly changed.
How high – and massive – do
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
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 (
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