Rajaram was known for his innovative use of mathematical models to understand and predict complex environmental phenomena. He was a leading expert in hydrology and his research spanned a wide range of ...

The Amazon is the world's largest rainforest. It harbors immense biodiversity and plays a crucial role in the global climate system by storing vast amounts of carbon in its vegetation. The Amazon is ...

As the Earth inches closer to 2°C of average warming above pre-industrial levels, some scientists aren’t just interested in how to cut emissions. They’re also interested in how to buy the planet more ...

Plate tectonics give rise to Earth's mountain ranges, earthquakes and the long-term movement of continents, and may even have provided the right conditions for life on Earth. But as far as we know, no ...

At the foundation of the Department of Earth, Environmental and Geospatial Science is a commitment to faculty and student research. Outside of the classroom, students and faculty are working on campus ...

Earth may have sported a Saturn-like ring system 466 million years ago, after it captured and wrecked a passing asteroid, a new study suggests. The debris ring, which likely lasted tens of millions of ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y., September 8, 2008 – ITT Corporation this weekend celebrated the successful launch of the GeoEye-1 satellite and its ITT-built imaging payload from Vandenberg Air Force Base in ...

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