USC Dornsife News

An international group led by a USC Dornsife climate expert upgrades a global database that tracks global shifts in temperatures.

This holiday season, discover how USC Dornsife scholars view trees. From the landscape of forests in the American West to sustainability to trees designed to study algebraic functions, our academic endeavors connect to a sturdy trunk of curiosity and explore issues across a broad canopy of disciplines.

USC Dornsife’s Ph.D. hooding ceremony takes place May 12 at Cromwell Field. This year, doctoral degrees will be issued to 156 graduates — including these two exceptional scholars.

Earth scientists, studying mercury found in samples of ancient rock, strengthen the case that a prehistoric disaster is a good model for investigating the potential effect of rising carbon dioxide levels.

USC Dornsife faculty and alumni born on Feb. 29 share information and anecdotes about this rare birthday.

Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences Robert Douglas was instrumental in helping the field of paleoceanography expand and thrive. In 35 years at USC Dornsife, he did much to build the earth sciences department and its scholarship as a beloved educator and administrator.

Julien Emile-Geay of earth sciences at USC Dornsife finds clues to the fundamental physics of El Niño in millennia-old corals and clams.

Lowell Stott of earth sciences at USC Dornsife discusses why current models aren’t enough to predict future changes in climate and weather patterns.

A sea urchin fossil found by a USC team had been buried in a rock formation that dates back nearly 270 million years — 10 million years earlier than previous specimens.