Earth Systems & Climate Change

Engineers at WashU are heavily in the business of “carbon conversion” with multiple projects working on systems to pull carbon dioxide in and put it to good use.

The first-ever use of cutting-edge drone-based lidar in Central Asia allowed archaeologists to capture stunning details of two newly documented trade cities high in the mountains of Uzbekistan.

WashU has received a three-year $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to study societal resilience — how a society recovers from major shocks like the tsunami in Indonesia — in the Asia-Pacific region.

Annual event fosters connections between faculty, students and industry professionals.

WashU’s McKinnon has been involved with mission to Jupiter’s moon for more than 40 years.

A study supported by the Living Earth Collaborative found that local flowers are blooming up to several weeks longer than in past decades.

Barb Winston, administrative coordinator in the Environmental Studies program, and Jennifer Smith, professor of Earth, environmental, and planetary sciences, win faculty and staff awards.

Chakrabarty lab research estimates effect of light-absorbing organic carbon on snow melt.

WashU earth scientists are studying undersea earthquakes and analyzing lava rocks from a volcanic hotspot near the islands of Samoa. Read about the work from their 28-day research cruise in 2023.

Two new studies by biologists at Washington University in St. Louis highlight one potential source of game-changing materials: purple bacteria that, with a little encouragement, can act like microscopic factories for bioplastics.