Kara D. Lamb

This week, LEAP REU students Troy Stephens + Katherine Frields and LEAP Momentum Fellow Giorgia Nicolaou presented "AI Generation of Thermodynamic Histories From Ice Crystal Images" at the 2025 @columbiauniversity.bsky.social Pathways Program (CUPP) Research Symposium!

Various methods of Solar Radiation Management (SRM), a type of climate geoengineering that aims to increase the reflection of sunlight from the Earth's atmosphere in order to cool the Earth's climate. Credit: NOAA

What are geoengineering and cloud seeding, and what are their implications for future climate mitigation strategies? @karadlamb.bsky.social—research scientist at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social studying aerosols, cloud physics, machine learning—explains: news.climate.columbia.edu/2025/07/17/g...

NASA Office Above ‘Seinfeld’ Diner Is a Target of Trump Budget Shrinkage

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/n...

This iconic NASA office changed climate science forever. DOGE plans to kill it The NYC space is where the term ‘black hole’ was coined and where James Hansen became famous for his warnings about climate change.

www.fastcompany.com/91333946/thi...

Kyleen Liao did stellar work with @karadlamb.bsky.social, Pierre Gentine, and me a while ago on simulating PM2.5 emissions from California wildfires using graph neural networks (GNNs). Her paper with cool new model validation results is out now: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

☀️ APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN for our Summer'25 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATES (REU) PROGRAM ☀️

- For undergrads (rising Soph/Jr/Sr @ a U.S. institution)
- May 26 - August 1
- 5 research projects based in NYC and/or Boulder, CO

📆 INFO + APPLY by 3/15/25: leap.columbia.edu/education-2/...

Thrilled to see Patrick Dicus (LEAP REU'24) present at #AMS2025 last week!

His poster is a result of his LEAP Summer 2024 Research Experience for Undergraduates work conducted with project mentors @karadlamb.bsky.social + Joseph Ko.

Way to go, Patrick - keep up the great work!

So proud of #REU24 alum Ashley Nguyen (Berkeley'27) + her LEAP research poster @ #AGU24! (Ice crystal mentors: Joseph Ko + @karadlamb.bsky.social )

And a #NOAA puppy, because why not? 🐶

#LEAPEducation #community #mentoring #NSF #CUSEAS
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Join Joseph Ko, @karadlamb.bsky.social + @mvanlierwalq.bsky.social to hear "A44A-09: Exploring Parametric and Structural Uncertainties of Bulk and Lagrangian Ice Microphysical Schemes in Large Eddy Simulations!"

TODAY @ #AGU24: 17:20p in 201 (Conv. Ctr)!

https://buff.ly/3VBFwQP

LEAP #MomentumFellow23 Mohammed Erfani presents "A33J-08: Spatiotemporal ML Models for Emulation of Atmospheric Composition" TODAY @ 15:30p, Salon H! https://buff.ly/4gtYhh1

@karadlamb.bsky.social + @mvanlierwalq.bsky.social

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@columbiaclimate.bsky.social

Take a stroll to see "A31G-1810: Discovering a Model for Depositional Ice Growth from Observations Using Neural Ordinary Differential Equations + Symbolic Regression" (by Kara Lamb), TODAY at #AGU24!

https://buff.ly/4ffc7CZ

#NSF #CUSEAS @agu.org @columbiaclimate.bsky.social

Check out an #AGU24 poster by LEAP #REU24 alum Ashley Nguyen (UCBerkeley)!

"A31B-1687: Emulating Lagrangian Ice Crystal Evolution in Cirrus Clouds Using Supervised ML" (w/Joseph Ko, @karadlamb.bsky.social) https://buff.ly/3D5KDlM

#LEAPEducation #NSF #CUSEAS @agu.org @columbiaclimate.bsky.social

I made a starter pack for those working in or adjacent to Machine Learning for Earth System Modeling! Apologies if I forgot anyone, and feel free to suggest people to add :)

go.bsky.app/C5DQNCe

Perseverance Views Drifting Clouds - NASA Science NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used one of its navigation cameras to take a series of images of drifting clouds just before sunrise on March 18, 2023, the 738th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

This is incredible-- cirrus clouds on Mars. 😶‍🌫️
science.nasa.gov/resource/per...