The NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), at Columbia University in New York City, is a component laboratory of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Earth-Sun Exploration Division and a unit of The Earth Institute at Columbia University. Current research at GISS emphasizes a broad study of global climate change.

GISS was established in May 1961 by Dr. Robert Jastrow to do basic research in space sciences in support of Goddard programs. It was then called the Goddard Space Flight Center Institute for Space Studies but quickly became generally known as the Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

GISS is currently directed by Dr. James Hansen.

News

Climatologists Drew Shindell and Gavin Schmidt of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, have received Scientific American magazine's Top 50 Scientist award ^* in november 2004.

Trivia

• The institute is housed at the corner of West 112th St. and Broadway in New York City in Columbia University's Armstrong Hall ^*. The building houses Tom's Restaurant, which was the exterior for the restaurant in Seinfeld and the subject of the Suzanne Vega song "Tom's Diner."

See also

• EdGCM
• National Center for Atmospheric Research
• Earth Simulator

External link

• Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) - Official Site

NASA facilities