Tulane Study Says Seas May Be Rising Faster Than Thought January 30, 2019
A new Tulane University study questions the reliability of how sea-level rise in low-lying coastal areas such as southern Louisiana is measured and suggests that the current method underestimates the severity of the problem. The research is the focus of a news article published this week in the journal Science.
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City Digs Deep To Prepare For The Future December 5, 2018
Much of greater New Orleans has been naturally sinking for generations. But scientists don’t know a lot about why, where, or how fast it’s happening. So now, they’re looking below the streets for clues -- at the layers of dirt, sand, and mud. The city hopes it’ll help us prepare for the future.
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Fall Alumni/Retirement Party October 10, 2018
This Fall's alumni party during Homecoming weekend will also be will also be Dr. Steve Nelson’s retirement party. Please join us in celebrating Dr. Nelson’s career. Cudd Hall, Friday November 9, 2018, 6pm – 9pm.
A Tulane internship of Seismic Proportions September 26, 2018
As a research intern in the Tulane School of Science and Engineering, Makiyah Cormick, a senior at the New Orleans Charter Science and Mathematics High School, worked closely with scientists to analyze seismic data from around the world. He was especially interested in the possible causes of an earthquake swarm on Comoros, a volcanic chain off the eastern coast of Africa, in May and June of 2018.
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Tulane Geologist Named Oliver Fund Scholars Award Winner May 15, 2018
The annual $40,000 award, given every two years, is designed to stimulate outstanding faculty research initiatives, and this year’s competition focused on research in computational science, including modeling and simulation of complex problems.
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Tulane Scientist Antarctica Bound in $25 million Glacier Study May 1, 2018
The collaboration between the United States and the United Kingdom will deploy Arnold Early Career Professor Brent Goehring, an assistant professor in the Tulane Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and 100 other scientists to Antarctica to gather data needed to understand when the glacier’s collapse could begin - in the next few decades or centuries - and its impact on global sea rise.
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School of Science and Engineering Names Outstanding Researcher April 11, 2018
Karen Johannesson, a professor of geochemistry and chemical hydrogeology in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, will receive the Outstanding Researcher Award Thursday, April 12, during the 12th annual School of Science and Engineering (SSE) Research Day.
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Professor Searches For Clues to Predict Volcanic Eruptions March 6, 2018
Cynthia Ebinger, holder of the Marshall-Heape Chair in Geology in the School of Science and Engineering at Tulane University, studies tiny but critical changes in rock-magma interactions. She is the lead author on a review of existing geophysical data that measures magma in that region, on which she collaborated with an international team.
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11th Graduate Climate Conference November 15, 2017
In episode 58 of Forecast, Mike talks with Henri Drake, Jennifer Carman, and Molly Keogh, three of the attendees at the 11th Graduate Climate Conference.
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