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- 28SepCommUniversity DayJoin us on Saturday, September 28, 12-4 pm for CommUniversity Day, a free, family-friendly festival style event ...
- 2OctFaculty Lecture by Shobana Shankar/HIS, "An Uneasy Embrace: Africa, India, and the Spectre of Race"Shobana Shankar’s latest volume is the first intellectual and cultural history to explore how Africans and Indians—two of the world’s ...
- 5OctStony Brook Symphony OrchestraThe Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra is composed of outstanding musicians from all over the world pursuing advanced studies in the graduate sc...
- 17OctLecture by Naomi Oreskes/Harvard University, "Epistemic Privilege and the Gender 0f Climate Change Denial"Lecture by Naomi Oreskes/Harvard University, "Epistemic Privilege and the Gender 0f Climate Change Denial". Part of the College of Arts and...
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Research Spotlight
Studying the World's Changing Climate and Polar Environment
Department of Geosciences Assistant Professor Weisen Shen recently shared results forthcoming from his team's successful deployment of a series of seismic stations around the South Pole this past austral summer. Shen and his team of graduate students employed a novel transportation system consisting of arctic trucks; the results are likely to help understand the rate of appearance of climate change impacts, such as ice sheet motion.
Through the support of the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Program (NSF-OPP) season in logistic investment grant, Shen's team spent two months at the South Pole conducting this resesarch; recent results have been publicized in the 2024 Ice Core community meeting. Click here to read more