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Jul

2019

Two-degree climate goal attainable without early infrastructure retirement

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC— If power plants, boilers, furnaces, vehicles, and other energy infrastructure is not marked for early retirement, the world will fail to meet the 1.5-degree Celsius climate- ...

May

2019

Circular lineage - Caldeira/Cao/Duan

By Leslie Willoughby

Long Cao, Lei Duan and Ken Caldeira at Duan's defense

Lei Duan will become the first postdoc in the Ken Caldeira lab who studied under a former postdoc in that lab. Duan successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, “A Modeling Study of the Climate ...

May

2019

Two New Venture Grants Awarded

By Carnegie HQ

The Office of the President has selected two new Carnegie Venture Grants. Peter Driscoll of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism and Sally June Tracy of the Geophysical Laboratory were awarded a ...

Apr

2019

Changes in rainfall and temperatures have already impacted water quality

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC— Changes in temperature and precipitation have already impacted the amount of nitrogen introduced into U.S. waterways, according to new research from a team of three Carnegie ...

Mar

2019

Sea anemones ingest plastic microfibers

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC— Tiny fragments of plastic in the ocean are consumed by sea anemones along with their food, and bleached anemones retain these microfibers longer than healthy ones, according to new ...

Feb

2019

Can we address climate change without sacrificing water quality?

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC— Strategies for limiting climate change must take into account their potential impact on water quality through nutrient overload, according to a new study from Carnegie’s Eva Sinha and ...

Feb

2019

Predicting how forests in the western United States will respond to changing climate

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC— On the mountain slopes of the western United States, climate can play a major role in determining which tree communities will thrive in the harshest conditions, according to new work ...

Feb

2019

Carl Sagan Lecture by Ken Caldeira at the 2018 Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting

By Elizabeth Susskind

Here is a link to the transcript of Ken's entertaining and informative lecture, delivered at the AGU Conference in December 2018" . Caldeira-Carl Sagan Lecture December 2018

Jan

2019

China not “walking the walk” on methane emissions

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC— Chinese regulations on coal mining have not curbed the nation’s growing methane emissions as intended, says new research from a team led by Carnegie’s Scot Miller and Anna Michalak. ...

Jan

2019

Carbon isotopic fractionation on coral reef related to benthic community composition

By Leslie Willoughby

David Koweek samples coral on One Tree Island, photo: Aaron Ninokawa

Using carbon stable isotopes to track coral reef metabolism, David Koweek, along with Ken Caldeira and former Carnegie postdocs Rebecca Albright and Yui Takeshita, looked at how carbon isotopic ...

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