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Century Plant and Amara Leazer in San Diego. (Ryann Busillo, Climate School & GSAPP)
Cornelius in front of Alma Mater, Low Library. (Amara Leazer, Climate School & GSAPP)
Stromatolites, Tierra del Fuego, Chile. (Larissa Souki, Columbia)
Almirante Brown Antarctic Base. (Larissa Souki, Columbia)
Tegalalang rice terraces in Bali. (Supriya Swarup, SUMA)
Coastline of Reynisfjara, Iceland. (Supriya Swarup, SUMA)
Machu Picchu, Peru. (Gabriella Ginting, SUMA)
Camping site in Torres del Paine, Patagonia, Chile. (Gabriella Ginting, SUMA)
NYC sunset on Upper West Side. (Natalie Lewis, Climate School
Positano, Italy. (Natalie Lewis, Climate School)
Sunrise over Hayli Gubbi volcano, Ethiopia. (Amdemichael Zafu Tadesse, LDEO)
Colca Valley, Cabanaconde, Peru. (Ash Young, Climate School)
Nalasopara, outside of Mumbai, at night. (Darsheet Vora, CSUD)
Peruvian Andes. (Amelia Markes, MPA ESP)
Mendenhall Glacier, Tongas National Forest, Alaska. (Rebecca May, NCDP)
When rocks meet snow, Cappadocia, Turkey. (Muhamad Ababil Akram, SUMA and CCSI)
Machu Picchu, Peru. (Muhamad Ababil Akram, SUMA and CCSI)
Somewhere in Vik, Iceland. (Muhamad Ababil Akram, SUMA and CCSI)
Scene from FEFU & HER FRIENDS at Barnard greenhouse. (Sandra Goldmark, Climate School)
Wildflowers on cliffs of Gaspé Peninsula, Canada. (Miriam Cinquegrana, LDEO)
Cardinal in NYC's Riverside Park. (Alex de Sherbinin, CIESIN)
Volcán Acatenango in eruption, Guatemala. (Lylia Saurel, Climate School)
Columbia's Low Library. (Erin Frank, Climate School)
Columbia's Morningside campus. (Erin Frank, Climate School)
Evidence of spring at LDEO Comer Building. (Kelly Fenton-Samuels, LDEO)
BLOOFINZ research cruise in Argo Abyssal Plain. (Joaquim Goes, LDEO)
Sunset over the Hudson River. (Andrew Marshall Fagerheim, LDEO)
Climate School in Green Mountains students studying water quality. (Laurel Zaima-Sheehy, Climate School)
Rice fields in Los Baños, Philippines. (Erik Mencos, CCSR)
Rock, ice, and sky in Greenland. (Marco Tedesco, LDEO)
Last Interglacial beach unit, Oahu, Hawaii (Jacky Austermann, LDEO)
Modern and paleo dunes, Molokai, Hawaii (Jacky Austermann, LDEO)
White rhinoceros, zebras, and lesser kudus, Kleinfontein, South Africa (Immanuel Hasian, Columbia SUMA)
Walking across a pebble beach in Patagonia (Jacky Austermann, LDEO)
Deploying experimental mesocosms in Morningside Park Pond, NYC (Joaquim Goes, LDEO)
Sampling on Walker Bay, South Africa (Joaquim Goes, LDEO)
Rainbow over the Lamont Rose Garden (Caroline Leland, LDEO)
Pinecones in Newfoundland (Joey Parr, Climate School)
Penguin studying biologist, Amundsen Sea (Xiaojun Yuan, LDEO)
Monitoring Cubre Vieja volcano eruption, La Palma, Spain (Pedro Hernández Pérez, INVOLCAN)
Lamont campus aerial view (Tom Burke, LDEO)
Endangered juvenile red-shanked doucs, Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam (Jenna Lawrence, Climate School)
Climate Imaginarium piece at Governor's Island (Sandra Goldmark, Climate School)
Guatapé, Colombia as seen from El Peñón de Guatapé (Charly Vergara Benjumea, NCDP)
Excursion during field work in Puerto Rico (Bärbel Hönisch, LDEO)
Coral tagging and replanting in Hawai'i (Maria Lujan, Climate School)
Flying over A-68 iceberg from Larsen C Ice Shelf (Caitlin Locke, LDEO)
Coring expedition, Budd Lake, NJ (Dorothy Peteet, LDEO)
Atacama Desert, Chile (Joey Parr, Climate School)
Eastern screech owl in apple tree on LDEO campus (Timothy Trimble, LDEO)
Juvenile Philippine long-tailed macaque, Quezon National Forest Park (Jenna Lawrence, Climate School)
Los Cuernos in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile (Joey Parr, Climate School)
Red eft in NY's lower Hudson Valley (Adam Gelfand, E3B)
Chrysler Building as seen from 42nd Street, NYC (Andrew Fagerheim, Columbia Engineering)
Sunset in the Tyrrhenian Sea aboard JOIDES Resolution (Brandon Shuck, LDEO)
Annapurna, Himalayas, Nepal (Joshua Fisher, AC4)
Grey Glacier in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile (Joey Parr, Climate School)
Palisades and Hudson near LDEO (Andrew Fagerheim, Columbia Engineering)
Rice paddy, Cambodia (Benjamin Bostick, LDEO)
R/V Marcus G. Langseth waking up to Table Mountain, South Africa (Cody Bahlau, LDEO)
Male gelada, Bronx Zoo, 2016 (Jenna Lawrence, Climate School)
Poás Volcano, Costa Rica. (Kevin Krajick, Columbia Climate School)
Morningside Park and midtown, NYC (Andrew Fagerheim, Columbia Engineering)
JOIDES Resolution in North Atlantic, Reykjavík, Iceland. (Claire Jasper, LDEO)
Slime mold in NY's lower Hudson Valley (Adam Gelfand, E3B)
Beaufort, Rhône Alpes, France (Lylia Saurel, Climate School)
Wall in the city of Pokhara, Nepal (Joshua Fisher, AC4)
Kotzebue Sound, Alaska (Ajit Subramaniam, LDEO)
Sunset on Columbia Morningside campus (Andrew Fagerheim, Columbia Engineering)
Farm land on the flank of Poás Volcano, Costa Rica (Kevin Krajick, Columbia Climate School)
Man visiting former home in hill country of Gansu Province, China (Alex de Sherbinin, CIESIN)
Wood anatomy of Amburana cearensis, Madidi National Park, Bolivia (Rose Oelkers, Lamont)
Wildflowers, Okmok volcano, Umnak Island, Alaska (Jasper Baur, Lamont)
Wild horses, Okmok volcano, Aleutian Islands, Alaska (Einat Lev, Lamont)
Water Plants, Brooklyn Botanic Gardens (Joey Parr, Climate School)
Glacier Walk, Vatnajökull glacier, Iceland (Gautam Jain, Columbia Energy)
Sunset from Nathaniel B. Palmer, Rothera Station, British Antarctic Survey (David Porter, Lamont)
Shepherdess in the Highlands of Peru (Gautam Jain, Columbia Energy)
2022 STEMSEAS participants on the R/V Sally Ride (Sharon Cooper, Lamont)
Mirrored Mountains, Grand Teton National Park (Gautam Jain, Columbia Energy)
Hudson Palisade at the NY-NJ State Line (Bill Menke, Lamont)
Global Climate Protest, NYC, Mar 2022 (Oren Pizmony-Levy, Center for Sustainable Futures)
Forestry experts heading to inventory mangrove forests (Sylwia Trzaska, CIESIN)
Farm to Building installation at Lamont-Doherty (Lola Ben-Alon, GSAPP Natural Materials Lab)
Pachyderm Paradise, Tarangire, Tanzania (Gautam Jain, Columbia Energy)
Dawn, Douglas Hut, Flinders Ranges, Australia (Nicholas Christie-Blick, Lamont)
Cleveland volcano, Islands of the Four Mountains, Aleutian Islands, Alaska (Jasper Baur, Lamont)
Castlepoint Lighthouse, Castlepoint, New Zealand (Stephen E. Cox, Lamont)
Boulders at Black Rock Mountain near NYC from last ice age. (Kevin Krajick, Climate School)
Built & natural environments, Andean Region, Colombia. (Joan C. Lopez, AC4)
Bearded dragon, Flinders Ranges, Australia (Nicholas Christie-Blick, Lamont)
Lamont's Gisela Winckler on research cruise SO290 in Tasman Sea. (Lester Lembke-Jene)
View from Cape Morris Jesup, Greenland (Tobias Schneider, Lamont)
Low tide along Bristol Channel between England and Wales (Kevin Krajick, Climate School)
Offshore North Pacific trash gyre for plastic marine debris research (Marty Klein, Lamont)
Lamont postdoc Brandon Shuck on limb of chevron folds in Crete, Greece (Eirini Poulaki)
R/V Nathaniel Palmer through an iceberg in Antarctica (Joaquim Goes, Lamont)
Waves break on basaltic rocks, southern Iceland (Kevin Krajick, Climate School)
Penguins and R/V Nathaniel Palmer in Antactica (Joaquim Goes, Lamont)
Vultures near a harbor on the Azuero Peninsula, Panama (Kevin Krajick, Climate School)
Ouachita National Forest, Ozark Mountains, Arkansas (Kevin Krajick, Climate School)
Ancient settlement Above an oasis in Oman’s Hajar Mountains (Kevin Krajick, Climate School)
Oman’s arid Hajar Mountains made largely of peridotite (Kevin Krajick, Climate School)
Traversing a volcanic dike on the Olomana Trail in Oahu (Brandon Shuck, Lamont)
Ancient trees in northern Mongolia’s Khangai Mountains (Kevin Krajick, Climate School)
Horses in central Mongolia (Kevin Krajick, Climate School)
Lamont Monell Building in mid-April (Miriam Cinquegrana, Lamont)
Lake Midsommer So, Pearyland, Greenland (Tobias Schneider, Lamont)
Nightfall at Olorgesalie basin, southern Kenya (Kevin Krajick, Climate School)
Zephyr Power in Gharo, Pakistan (Dale A. Willman, Climate School)
Fishermen in a village near Karachi, Pakistan (Dale A. Willman, Climate School)
Glacier at Romer So, Greenland (Tobias Schneider, Lamont)
Iceberg in a fjord in Ilulissat, Greenland (Tobias Schneider, Lamont)
Twilight, Grand Canyon (Kevin Krajick, Climate School)
Southern Iceland’s Jokulsarlon Lagoon (Kevin Krajick, Climate School)
View north of New York harbor from NJ’s Sandy Hook (Kevin Krajick, Climate School)
Area around Quizapu Volcano, Chilean Andes (Kevin Krajick, Climate School)
View across an outwash plain in southern Iceland (Kevin Krajick, Climate School)
A coconut seller's cart in Dhamrai, Bangladesh (Dannie Dinh, IRI)
Horses on the island of Vestvagoya in Norway (Kevin Krajick, Climate School)
Galeta Island near the Panama city of Colon (Dale A. Willman, Climate School)
Fishing camp on the island of Vestvagoya in Norway (Kevin Krajick, Climate School)
Ice front of Pine Island Ice Shelf, Antarctica (Frank Nitsche, Lamont)
Deck of R/V JOIDES Resolution at Dawn on Southern Ocean - Co-Chief Scientist Gisela Winckler (Mariem Saavedra)
Lamont Monell Building (Miriam Cinquegrana, Lamont)
Looking from 3rd Tallest to Tallest Peak of Mt. Kenya (Samuel Kodama, Lamont)
High Elevations of Bulgan, Mongolia (Mukund Palat Rao, Lamont)
Lava Lake at Ambrym Volcano, Vanuatu (Yves Moussallam, Lamont)
Lamont Geoscience Building (William Menke, Lamont)
Cape Range National Park, Western Australia (Michael Sandstrom, Lamont)
Lago del Diablo, Northern Bolivia (Rose Oelkers, Lamont)
Icebergs Outside Ilulissat, Greenland (Marco Tedesco, Lamont)
Lamont Field by Core Repository (Miriam Cinquegrana, Lamont)
Northern Lights, Fairbanks, Alaska (Einat Lev, Lamont)
Pyramid Tent on Surface of West Antarctic Ice Sheet (Jonathan Kingslake, Lamont)
Icebreaker NB Palmer in Antarctica Sea Ice (Frank Nitsche, Lamont)
Sierra Negra Volcano, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador (Einat Lev, Lamont)
Painted Hills, Oregon (Michael Sandstrom, Lamont)
Distant Volcanoes in the Altiplano of Northern Chile (Yves Moussallam, Lamont)
Lilac Breasted Roller, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Kenya (Samuel Kodama, Lamont)
Zebra Grazing in Nairobi National Park, Kenya (Daniel Westervelt, Lamont)
Valley of Clouds. Madidi National Park, Bolivia (Rose Oelkers, Lamont)
Views from Trolltunga, Norway (Maria Dombrov, Earth Institute)
Reventador Volcano, Ecuador (Yves Moussallam, Lamont)
Kangaroo Island, Australia (Michael Sandstrom, Lamont)
Shepherds in Uruguay (Francesco Fiondella, IRI)
Greenland Ice Sheet (Marco Tedesco, Lamont)
Mary Anyango on Her Bean Farm in Kenya (Kyu Lee, Earth Institute)
Beryllium Sampling in Greenland (Margie Turrin, Lamont)
Off the Coast of Greenland (Gary Comer, Founder of Land’s End)
Farmers in Honduras (Elisabeth Gawthrop, IRI)
Juneau Icefield Research Project (Jonathan Kingslake & Elizabeth Case, Lamont)
Mining Town of Casapalca in Peru (Lauren Butler, Columbia Water Center)
Sierras of California (David Funkhouser, Earth Institute)
Quizapu Volcano in Chile (Kevin Krajick, Earth Institute)
McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica (Jen Lamp, Lamont)
Grand Canyon (Kevin Krajick, Earth Institute)
Camels at Eastern Kenya Watering Hole (Kyu Lee, Earth Institute)
Bat Soars on Volcanic Indian Ocean Island of Anjouan (Kevin Krajick, Earth Institute)
Cape Petrels Soaring against Antarctic Landscape (Margie Turrin, Lamont)
