Monthly Archives: June 2019

Clean Air Carolina (CAC) is establishing a statewide monitoring network in North Carolina designed to gather scientifically relevant particle pollution (PM2.5) data and connect communities with information needed to protect their health and advocate for change. CAC is aiming to have sensors installed in all 100 of North Carolina’s counties by the end of 2019…

While there has been significant media attention on the issue of plastics in the ocean, the similar problem of plastics in the river network has received less notice. This project will add microplastics to a ‘River in a Box’ exhibit to demonstrate how these particles can be transported to the ocean and how events like…

The goal of this initiative is to apply the innovative research and expertise of earth scientists at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) to create community-based ambassadors of environment in India and Myanmar. The project will enable community members, specifically women, to become effective local environmental stewards and advocates in the fight against the use of…

This project will create a mobile-first web application, Earthtunes, to retrieve open seismic data from various seismic stations and turn the seismic wave data into sound waves. This will allow the public, educations and researchers to better view and hear the dynamics of the solid Earth, creating a differently accessible tool. A kiosk will be…

Augmented Reality (AR) systems are those in which real and virtual environments and objects can coexist and be acted upon in real time (Azuma 1997). This combination of virtual and real allows users to access contextually relevant multimedia content in a way that allows for an immediate integration of new information into action by further…

Traditional recordings using seismometers, from the 1800s through the mid to late 1980s, are the basis for the field of seismology but are currently in analog form, rendering them unusable for modern analyses. This project will teach Japanese high-school students to use a digitization software, DigitSeis, developed at Harvard University, to process recorded seismograms. The…

This project will involve a two-pronged approach to provide access to information showcasing the deep links between volcanism, glaciation, and climate, little of which is currently available to the general public.  The project team is building a website based on a series of articles explaining the basics of volcanism, glaciology, and climate science--with a focus…

The Karnali river basin has been experiencing rainfall variability and incidents of more frequent drought in recent years. Geographical constraints and people’s relatively low economic capacity and the climatic variability are affecting the water availability to people living therein.  Smallscale water infrastructures such as village ponds and tanks play a crucial role in domestic water-supply…