Department of Earth Sciences
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences

Department News Archive

  • Congratulations to Colleen Hoffman and Morgan Monz who were awarded GSA Graduate Students Research Grants to support there dissertation research this summer.

  • Please join us Thursday, May 4 at 3:35p.m., in room 110 PillsHall for a seminar by Dr. Holly Michael, University of Delaware, College of Earth, Ocean, & Environment
    The influence of geologic heterogeneity on large-scale groundwater flow and solute transport: Mega-cities and continental shelves​

  • Congratulations to Hannah Blatchford and Clementine Hamelin, both PhD students in the Structure, Tectonics, and Metamorphic Petrology (STAMP) research group, for being awarded GSA Research Grants, including an ExxonMobil/GSA Student Geoscience Research Grant to Blatchford. 

  • Please join us Thursday, April 20 at 3:35p.m., in room 110 PillsHall for a seminar by Dr. Danielle Fortin, University of Ottawa, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
    Chemical, mineralogical and sorptive characteristics of Biogenic Iron Oxides (BIOS)​ 

  • University of Minnesota geosciences app wins NSF and Popular Science ‘Vizzie’ Award

    Competition recognizes effective visualizations from science and engineering. A geosciences outreach app developed by University of Minnesota researchers is a winner of the 15th Annual Vizzies, a national competition sponsored by Popular Science magazine and the National Science Foundation (NSF) celebrating the use of visual media to artfully and clearly communicate scientific data and research.

    Read more: http://z.umn.edu/vizzie17

    For more background on the Flyover Country app:

    http://z.umn.edu/flyover16

     

     

  • Please join us on Thursday, March 30 at 3:35p.m. in 110 PillsHall for a seminar by Dr. Steve Mojzsis, University of Colorado-Boulder, Department of Geological Sciences
    Early Earth vs. the Origin of Life

  • Please join us on Thursday, March 23 at 3:35p.m. in 110 PillsHall for a seminar by Dr. Will Levandowski, United States Geological Survey
    Shaping and shaking North America from the Proterozoic to the present
     

  • There will be no department seminar on Thursday, March 16 because of Spring break. Seminar will return on Thursday, March 23rd. 

  • Please join us this Thursday, March 9, at 3:35 p.m. in 110 PillsHall for the
     **Nier Lecturer**
    presented by Dr. Jeffrey Severinghaus, University of California-San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
    What have we learned about our future from ice core records of the past?
     

  • Please join us Thursday, February 23 for a seminar by Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Arizona State University, School of Earth & Space Exploration
     Early planet formation and the Psyche mission

  • Congratulations to IRM grad student Dan Maxbauer who was awarded an Outstanding Student Paper Award for his presentation at the Fall 2016 AGU meeting.

  • Plesase join us Thursday, February 16 at 3:35p.m. for a seminar by Dr. Joshua Feinberg, University of Minnesota, Department of Earth Sciences
    Tracing environmental change through the magnetism of cave deposits and soils

     

  • The department seminar scheduled for Thursday, Februrary 9 has been cancelled. Seminar will resume on Thursday, February 16, 2017

  • Please join us on Monday, February 6 at 4:00pm in 110 PillsHall for a seminar from 
    Dr. Justin Mankin, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
    "Diagnosing Future Hydroclimatic Risks in the Context of Climate Uncertainty"

  • Please join us Thursday, February 2 at 3:35PM in 110 Pillsbury Hall for a seminar by
    Dr. Erica Woodburn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    Understanding Solute Transport in an Evolving Environment: Integrated Approaches and Implications in Risk Analysis 

  • Please join us Monday, January 30, 2017 at 4:00p.m. in Pillsbury Hall 110 for a seminar by 
    Margaret Zimmer, Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Earth and Ocean Sciences Division
    Linking Subsurface and Surface Flow Regimes from Hillslopes to Rivers

  • Please join us Thursday, January 19 at 3:35p.m. in Pillsbury Hall 110 for a seminar by 

    Dr. Matthew Weingarten, Stanford University, School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences
    The Rise of Fluid Induced Seismicity: Observations and Modeling from Oklahoma (and Beyond)

  • The ESCI office will be closed on Friday, December 23 thru Monday, December 26.  We will re-open on Tuesday, December 27. Happy Holidays!

  • Department Seminar returns on Thursday, January 19, 2017 at 3:35p.m. 

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