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Volcano Research Rocks on for Alumna With a Plum Postdoc
A 2023 Earth and Environmental Sciences graduate lands a postdoc at the American Museum of Natural History.
Alumna Becomes Delaware's First Environmental Justice Coordinator
The Earth and Environmental Sciences grad will work with marginalized communities to address water quality and climate change.
Science Alumni Spotlight: Gisselle Mejía (Ph.D. ’22, Earth and Environmental Sciences)
Now a postdoctoral fellow at Dartmouth, Mejía studies soil microbes in urban and rural forests.
Science Faculty Spotlight: Cecilia McHugh
Dr. Cecilia McHugh is a Distinguished Professor at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, City University of New York, a member of the Graduate Center’s Doctoral Faculty in Earth and Environmental Sciences, and an Adjunct Senior Researcher...
Science Alumni Spotlight: Michael Weisberg
I am both alumni and faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center. I received my Ph.D. from the Earth and Environmental Sciences Program in 1991. I think I was among the first several students to receive a Ph.D. from that Program...
Science Faculty Spotlight: Maria Tzortziou
Dr. Maria Tzortziou is Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at The City College of New York and a member of the CUNY doctoral faculty in Earth and Environmental Sciences. Her research focuses on how natural processes and human activities...
Science Student Spotlight: Corey Scher
Corey Scher is helping to uncover scientific discoveries on glacier melt in the Himalayas as a second year PhD student in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. He also uses his methodological expertise in image analysis and data science...
Science Alumni Spotlight: Cheila Cullen
What is your academic background? I received my Ph.D. in Physical Sciences from the Earth and Environmental Science Department at the Graduate Center back in 2016. In my dissertation work, I used various types of satellite data to build a...
Science Alumni Spotlight: Brian Brigham
My research focuses on the impact of urban wastewater discharge on greenhouse gas emissions and how these emissions contribute to global climate change. I graduated with my Ph.D. in the Earth and Environmental Science Program in the Fall of 2018...
Science Alumni Spotlight: Rajashree Datta
EES Alumni Science Spotlight: Rajashree Datta, Ph.D. What is your academic background? I received my PhD last year (2018) from the Graduate Center in Earth and Environmental Science, focusing on ice sheets in polar regions. My thesis used a regional...