Maureen Raymo

Maureen “Mo” Raymo is a marine geologist and 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, Co-Founding Dean of the Columbia Climate School, as well as Director of LDEO. Prof. Raymo’s research focuses on the history and causes of climate change in the past including understanding the consequences of climate change for sea level and ice sheet stability. Her research has been profiled in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, U.S. News and World Report, Discover Magazine, and elsewhere and featured on television via the History Channel, BBC World Service, BBC’s Planet Earth, PBS Newshour as well as numerous other podcasts and radio segments. Her Uplift-Weathering Hypothesis that addresses why climate changes on geologic timescales was the subject of both a PBS Nova and BBC Horizon documentary.