Lectures at Open House

Earth science lectures will be held throughout the day.

2026 Schedule

Location: Monell Building, Auditorium (đŸŽ„ Join the Lectures Virtually Via Zoom)

11:00 am: What Happened? The August 2026 Nepal-China Landslide and Flooding Catastrophe 

  • Göran Ekström

12:00 pm: A Historic El Niño Year! What Does That Mean?

  • Richard Seager
  • Suzana Carmago
  • Andy Robertson
  • Kate Guy
  • Matthew Glasser (Moderator)

1:00 pm: Did NYC's Congestion Pricing Policy Improve Air Quality?

  • Dan Westervelt

2:00 pm: What Does AI Mean for Your Work and the Field of Science?

  • Marco Tedesco
  • Galen McKinley
  • Vicki Ferrini
  • Daniel Hsu (Moderator)

Location: Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building, Seminar Room, 1st Floor

  • 11:30 am: Beizhan Yan - Creating Solutions in a World Swimming in Micro- and Nano-Plastics
  • 12:30 pm: BĂ€rbel Hönisch - Atmospheric CO2 Then and Now - What Can We Learn from the Past?
  • 1:30 pm: Kerstin Lehnert - Lamont and NASA's Billion $$$ Samples
  • 2:30 pm: Alberto Malinverno - Time Is Deep—How Do We Know?

Location: Oceanography 109

  • 11:30 am: Roger Buck - How Ice Shelves Break Apart, and How that Can Raise Sea Level?
  • 12:30 pm: Jim Davis - Can Climate Change Shift Our Clocks?
  • 1:30 pm: Kevin Schwarzwald - Climate Models: What They Can and Can't Tell Us about the Future
  • 2:30 pm: Lex Van Geen - High School Students Screen Soil for Lead in the New York Metropolitan Area and Abroad: What Do They Find?

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