Mark Cane, Ph.D.has been a leader for over three decades in his areas of focus: tropical oceanography, climate modeling, paleoclimate, impacts of climate on society, El Niño and the Southern Oscillation (ENSO) forecasting, and data analysis methodology. In a career filled with illustrious highlights, Cane is perhaps most notably recognized in the international scientific community for the first-ever ENSO-predicting computer model that he developed in collaboration with his student and future Earth Institute colleague, Steve Zebiak, who is now director of the Earth Institute’s International Research Institute for Climate and Society.By developing his short-term climate-predicting models, Cane has been able to help millions of people feed themselves and their families by better preparing for droughts and other climate fluctuations like changing ocean temperatures that can profoundly affect fishing and agriculture
The Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia Law School seeks to serve as a global focal point for the development, articulation, and application of intersectionality as both a theoretical framework and a cogent practice in law, human rights, and social justice advocacy. The first such center of its kind, its research projects and initiatives will bring together scholars and practitioners from law, sociology, feminist and gender studies, human rights, social justice, and other fields to explore the relationship of intersectionality to their work, to shape more effective remedies, and to promote greater collaboration between and across social movements.
