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Global Climate Change
Among the university's top researchers is geologist Dr. Ellen Cowan. She was among a select, international group of scientists who drilled the Antarctic sea floor for indications of how global warming affected our planet in the past.
In summer 2006, she helped collect core samples dating back 10 million years. She and her colleagues are studying the cores to predict change related to today's global warming.
Video credits: Media provided by Dr. Ellen Cowan, ANDRILL Organization, Richard Levy, Diane Winter, Tim Naish, Marv Speece, National Science Foundation and NASA World Wind. Narration provided by Kelly McBride '02.
Dr. Ellen Cowan
- Drilling Back to the Future: An Appalachian geologist studies past climate trends to better understand the effects of today's global warming
- ANDRILL
- Ellen A. Cowan, Professor of Geology
- Appalachian State University Department of Geology
- Research at Appalachian State University
- Appalachian State University Office of Student Research
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