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
Armed with GPS-enabled iPads and infrared surface temperature thermometers, students in an urban high school in Pennsylvania fan out on their school property to take temperature readings of grass,
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
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:
Kenneth Kodama knows that rocks retain a faithful record of the magnetic field, a fact that has had a tremendous variety of applications, including the reconstruction of continental positions
River systems support industry, agriculture, and the infrastructure that helps drive modern society. The world’s regional climates are influenced by water, and local responses to climate change are