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The Smerdon Climate Lab is excited to welcome Shane Russett as a new graduate student in the group!  Shane joined Columbia in fall 2024 as a first-year graduate student in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.  He has interests in paleoclimate, hydroclimate variability and human history and will be working in collaboration with Rhiannon Stephens in the Columbia History Department.

Group members Aadishah and Ibuki are attending the 2024 CESM Tutorial at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado this week.  But it hasn't been all tutorializing!

On May 6, 2024, while Columbia’s Morningside Campus was still closed due to student protests, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences held its annual awards ceremony to honor our treasured students and alumni. In his opening remarks, GSAS Dean Carlos Alonso noted, “this ceremony is a celebration of the very elements about Columbia that will allow us to regain our equilibrium when the current dismal situation abates: superlative teaching and mentoring, world-class research, and the training of graduates who will change the world through their contributions.”

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