Department of Earth Sciences
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences

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  • Please join us for our department seminar by Dr. Jeremy Fein, University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences on Metal Adsorption onto Bacteria: Effects on the Transport, Distribution, and Bioavailability of Metals in Geologic Systems, on Thursday, April 26th at 4:00 p.m. in Tate Hall room 105.

  • Please join us for our department seminar by Dr. Quentin Williams who is a COMPRES Distinguished Lecturer, University of California-Santa Cruz, Earth & Planetary Sciences Department on The Core-Mantle Boundary: The Other Planetary Boundary that Matters , on Thursday, April 19th at 4:00 p.m. in Tate Hall room 105.

  • Please join us for our department seminar by Dr. Edwin Kite,University of Chicago, Department of the Geophysical Sciences on Sustaining Actively Erupting Cryo-Volcanoes on Saturn's Moon Enceladus, on Thursday, April 12th at 4:00 p.m. in Tate Hall room 105.

  • Please join us for our department seminar by Dr. Jean-Bernard Minster, University of California- San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography on Sixty years of international exchange of scientific data: The rise of the alphabet soup, on Thursday, April 5th at 4:00 p.m. in Tate Hall room 105.

  • Please join us for our department seminar by Dr. Seth Jacobson, Northwestern University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences on The consequences of multi-stage core formation, Thursday, March 29th at 4:00 p.m. in Tate Hall room 105.

  • The week of March 12th-March 16th is Spring Break week.  There will be no department seminar and the university as a whole will be closed on Friday, March 16th.

     

  • Please join us for our department seminar by Dr. Sian Proctor, South Mountain Community College​ on The Power to Connect, Thursday, March 22nd at 4:00 p.m. in Tate Hall room 105.

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    Please join us for our A.O. Nier Lecture by Dr. Sara Seager, Massechusetts Institute of Technology on Mapping the Nearest Stars for Habitable Worlds, Thursday, March 1s at 4:00 p.m. in Tate Hall room B50.

     

     

     

  • Please join us for our department seminar by Dr. Fred Davis, University of Minnesota- Duluth, Swenson College of Science and Engineering on Redox Reactions and Basalt Petrogenesis in Earth’s Upper Mantle, Thursday, February 22nd at 4:00 p.m. in Tate Hall room 105.

  • Please join us for our department seminar by Dr. John Valley, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geoscience on Was the Hadean a: Hot Earth or Cool Earth?  Thursday, February 15th at 4:00 p.m. in Tate Hall room 105.

  • Please join us for our department seminar by Dr. Cynthia Gilmour, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center on Using hgcAB to understand the distribution of mercury methylating organisms in nature on Thursday, February 8th at 4:00 p.m. in Tate Hall room 105.

  • CONGRATULATIONS! to Dr. Crystal Ng on being selceted as a 2018-2020 McKnight Land-Grant Professor through the University of Minnesota's McKnight Land-Grant Professorship Program.

    With Super Bowl LII approaching, we will not be holding a department seminar on Thursday, Feb. 1st.  Tate Hall and the surrounding Norhtrup area will be closed to the public for Super Bowl events beginning at 6 pm on Friday, Feb. 2nd  and will remained closed through Saturday, Feb. 3rd at 8 pm. 

  • Please join us for the department seminar by Dr. Sherilyn Fritz from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences and the School of Biological Sciences. She will be presenting on The Cenozoic Evolution of Biotic and Geophysical Diversity in the Tropical Andes and Amazon.

  • Please join us for our department seminar by Dr. Geoffrey Abers, Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences on The subduction plate interface and mantle wedge from thrust zone to subarc on Thursday, January 18th at 4:00 p.m. in Tate Hall 105

  • Please join us for a seminar by Dr. David Fox of the University of Minnesota, Department of Earth Sciences
    Biogeography and isotope ecology of modern rodents: developing tools for the fossil record of the most diverse clade of mammals​  on Thursday, December 7th at 4:00 PM in Tate Hall, room 105.

  • Dr. Dan Peppe, Baylor University, Department of Geology, will be giving a seminar entitled The ape in the trees: reconstructing habitats of early hominoids on Thursday, November 16th.  Please join us at 4:00 PM in Tate Hall, room 105.

  • Dr. William Seyfried of the University of Minnesota Department of Earth Sciences will be giving a seminar entitled Emerging Technologies and the Chemistry of Hydrothermal Vent Fluids at 9 N, East Pacific on Thursday, November 2nd.  Please join us at 4:00 PM in Tate Hall, room 105.

  • Congratulations to Dr. Crystal Ng, Dr. Cara Santelli, and Dr. Amy Myrbo for their recent award of a University of Minnesota Grand Challenges Research Grant to investigate "Wild Rice in Minnesota and the Great Lakes Region". 
     

  • Congratulations to UMN alumnus Neal Iverson, Ph.D. 1989 on receiving the Arthur L. Day Medal from the Geological Society of America for his innovative research in glacial geology, glaciology, and geomorphology!

  • Congratulations to Dr. Dan Engstrom for receiving the Dave Ford Award at the Minnesota Water Resources Conference!

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