Celebrating the 2024 International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Celebrating the 2024 Worldwide Day of Ladies and Ladies in Science

Celebrating the 2024 Worldwide Day of Ladies and Ladies in Science

Yearly on February 11, the United Nations–designated International Day of Women and Girls in Science raises consciousness concerning the important obstacles many ladies and ladies world wide face throughout the science fields—in addition to the numerous methods they proceed to rise above challenges and excel of their disciplines.

In honor of this 12 months’s theme, “Ladies in Science Management: A New Period for Sustainability,” we’d like to focus on only a few examples of the excellent ladies scientists from the Columbia Local weather College.

Take a look at the tales beneath to study extra about how these ladies are main the cost towards a extra sustainable future, and hold studying State of the Planet for ongoing coverage of exceptional women scientists year-round.

Botanist and climatologist Dorothy Peteet collects sediment cores from a New York Metropolis coastal marsh and explains how such ecosystems retailer huge quantities of carbon and why they’re underneath menace from sea-level rise.

Inside New York’s Concrete Jungle with Amy Karpati: Ecologist and environmental educator Amy Karpati discusses city ecosystems and paths to restoration in New York Metropolis and past.

A New System Can Help Global Food Production Adapt to Climate Change. Jessica Fanzo (proper) discusses a brand new monitoring system for international locations to measure how properly their meals techniques are performing within the face of local weather change.

Meet Dasom Shi From the Climate and Society Class of 2024. A pupil within the Local weather and Society program, Shi continues to pursue her ardour for enhancing company influence and local weather motion.

Faculty Spotlight: Einat Lev, Volcanologist and Lava-Chaser. When she’s not visiting energetic volcano websites or working in her “plumber’s store” of a lab, Lev is educating Sustainability within the Face of Pure Disasters for the Sustainability Science program.

Climate and Society Alumni Work Together to Build Coastal Resilience. Working in the identical assume tank however in numerous roles, Madeleine Traynor and Shangtong Li (MA in Local weather and Society ’22) present how the Local weather and Society program prepares college students for quite a lot of profession paths.

Shubhi Kesarwani: Studying Sustainability Management to Advance Water Solutions in India. She’s the founding father of an organization that devises water administration options in India, and was a pupil in Columbia’s Sustainability Administration program.

Cheryl Palm, an agricultural scientist who was at Columbia from 2003 to 2016, died final month on the age of 70. Her pioneering analysis centered on ecosystem processes in tropical agricultural landscapes underneath land-use change, degradation and rehabilitation, and he or she mentored numerous younger scientists and aspiring STEM researchers. Learn extra about Palm’s remarkable life here.