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Researchers: Vivien Gornitz, Ph.D.

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Columbia University
Center for Climate Systems Research
2880 Broadway
New York, New York 10025
Telephone: (212) 678-5566
Email: vgornitz@giss.nasa.gov

Dr. Vivien Gornitz is a geologist and special research scientist with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University Center for Climate Systems Research. Vivien earned her Ph. D. from Columbia University in Geology/Mineralogy/Geochemistry and her B.A. from Barnard College in Chemistry. She is currently examining the impacts of sea level rise and extreme climate events on the metropolitan New York region. In addition, she is editing the Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments (Earth Science Series, Springer). Vivien is also interested in evidence for water and past climate changes on Mars. Previously, she has investigated the effects of human-induced hydrologic transformations on sea level, as well as recent and Holocene global sea-level change.