Discovery: Research at Princeton
Findings, feature articles, books and awards from Princeton University researchers
By Samantha Schuh A highly successful 50-year collaboration between Princeton’s Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS) Program and the nearby Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) has been renewed for another five years by the National Oceanic Continue Reading →
By Liz Fuller-Wright New research shows that prehistoric megatooth sharks, the biggest sharks that ever lived, were at the very highest rung of the prehistoric food chain — what scientists call the highest “trophic level.” Continue Reading →
Princeton University Press, 2020 Tullis Onstott, professor of geosciences (1955-2021) Deep Life takes readers to uncharted regions deep beneath Earth’s crust in search of life in extreme environments and reveals how astonishing new discoveries are Continue Reading →
Ning Lin, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, and her research group use computers to whip up virtual hurricanes that help policymakers evaluate the risks of severe storms in regions such as New York City, where such storms are rare but potentially devastating. Continue Reading →
Professor XinninZhang is exploring is why methane, a significant greenhouse gas, is increasing in the atmosphere. Continue Reading →
By Kevin McElwee In 2001, off India’s coastal state of Goa, the shrimp catch dropped by 80 percent in just a few years. The die-off was later traced to a dip in the ocean’s oxygen Continue Reading →
By Kevin McElwee Artemis Eyster spends more time than most students on the wooded paths near campus where Albert Einstein once cleared his mind. The Class of 2019 undergraduate, named after the Greek goddess of Continue Reading →
AFTER THE WIND, RAIN AND WAVES of Hurricane Sandy subsided, many of the modest homes in the Chelsea Heights section of Atlantic City, New Jersey, were filled to their windows with murky water. Residents returned Continue Reading →
Marine geochemistry specialist Robert Key doesn’t consider himself particularly prone to depression. Yet emails to his wife from a research vessel on the freezing waters of the Southern Ocean depicted an emotional slump amid harsh Continue Reading →
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