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Colvin Recipient Studies Nutrient Uptake in the Flood Plains of the Mississippi River

May 22, 2015 ・ Nick DiUlio for the Princeton Environmental Institute

Sunset over the Mississippi River. (Photo credit: Katherine Smith) For many years Katherine Smith has been fascinated by the complexities of riparian ecology, but as she approached her senior year at Princeton University the ecology and evolutionary biology major felt…

Million Year-Old Ice Holds Answers to Climate Record

May 17, 2015 ・ Igor Heifetz

A team of researchers with members from Princeton University, the University of Maine and Oregon State University has found that greenhouse gasses a million years ago, were only slightly higher than they were between 450,000 and 800,000 years ago. In…

Access to Clean Water in Kenyan Village

April 6, 2015 ・ Igor Heifetz
S.O.S. sign written in beach sand near beach waves hahaha

2014 Water Innovation and Research Summit

June 24, 2014 ・ Teresa Riordan
S.O.S. sign written in beach sand near beach waves hahaha

Familiar Yet Strange: Water’s ‘Split Personality’ Revealed by Computer Model

June 18, 2014 ・ Catherine Zandonella, Office of the Dean for Research

Discovery Day 2014

May 14, 2014 ・ Holly Welles

On Friday, May 9th, the Princeton Environmental Institute hosted its annual Discovery Day—a multidisciplinary poster session celebrating undergraduate senior thesis research on environmental topics. Over 70 students from 16 academic departments showcased their work which was mentored by 60 faculty…

New Technology to Monitor the African Water Cycle

October 25, 2013 ・ Holly Welles

Eric Wood, the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of Princeton University’s Program in Environmental Engineering and Water Resources, and his research team have developed a drought monitoring and forecast system for sub-Saharan Africa. The forecast…