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Maureen Raymo is a climate scientist who works at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory where she is the G. Unger Vetlesen Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences and Co-Founding Dean Emerita of the Columbia Climate School. Prof. Raymo’s research focuses on the history and causes of climate change in the past, including understanding the consequences of climate change for future sea level and ice sheet stability. Her research on Earth’s climate history has been the subject of both a PBS Nova and BBC Horizon documentary and been highlighted in media outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, U.S. News and World Report, Discover Magazine, and elsewhere.
Prof. Raymo has spent many months at sea and in the field studying how our planet works, leading or participating in numerous scientific expeditions. She has published over 120 peer-reviewed scientific publications, including ten in Science or Nature. A fellow of the National Academy of Science, the American Geophysical Union, the Geological Society of America, and The Explorer’s Club, in 2014 she became the first woman to be awarded the Wollaston Medal, the Geological Society of London’s most senior medal first awarded in 1831. In 2019 she was awarded the Maurice Ewing Medal by the American Geophysical Union and U. S. Navy “for significant original contributions to the ocean sciences”.
