Department of Earth Sciences
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences

Department News Archive

  • 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. 

  • Please join us on Thursday, December 8, 2016 at 3:35p.m. in room 110 Pillsbury Hall for our department seminar featuring:
    Dr. Jacqueline Reber,
    Iowa State University, Department of Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
    Impact of semi-brittle rheology on deformation dynamics and strain localization

  • Please join us on Thursday, December 1, 2016 at 3:35p.m. in room 110 Pillsbury Hall for our department seminar featuring:
    Dr. Russell S. Shapiro,
    California State University-Chico, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences
    Preservation of Stromatolite Biosignatures across Metamorphic Grades in the Biwabik Formation

  • Please join us on Thursday, November 17 at 3:35p.m. in room 110 Pillsbury Hall for our department seminar featuring:
    Dr. Paul Renne,
    University of California-Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley Geochronology Center
    What Killed the Dinosaurs?

  • Please join us on Thursday, November 10 at 3:35p.m. in room 110 Pillsbury Hall for our department seminar featuring:
    Dr. Woodward Fischer,
    Caltech, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
    Life before the rise of oxygen

  • Please join us on Thursday, November 3 at 3:35p.m. in room 110 Pillsbury Hall for our department seminar featuring:
    Dr. Rob Evans, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution    ,
    Using Electrical Conductivity to Map Melt and Fluids at Subduction Zones

  • In Polar Geospatial Center news: Less than one year after President Barack Obama announced a White House Arctic Initiative that included better mapping of the area, a team of researchers led by the University of Minnesota Polar Geospatial Center released the first-ever publicly available set of high-resolution, three-dimensional topographic maps of the entire state of Alaska.  Please read more of the CSE News Release here.  Nice work, PGCers!!

  • "Count seals in Antarctica from the comfort your couch" - yes, you can help!  "The citizen science project, called Satellites Over Seals (SOS), focuses on about 300 miles of Antarctic coastline along the Ross Sea. Anyone can view the satellite images online from anywhere in the world and help with the count."   Michelle LaRue is the lead researcher on this project. You can read more about it on the CSE News Release site: https://cse.umn.edu/news-release/count-seals-antarctica-comfort-couch/.   Nice work, Michelle!

  • Chris Paola has been awarded the G.K. Gilbert Award from AGU.

  • PhD candidate Megan Korchinski was a prize-winning finalist in the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute's 2016 Research Exhibition. Megan presented a poster on her 2D numerical simulations of crustal flow during lithospheric extension. She also presented this work in a talk at the recent European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna!

  • U. Minnesota ranks 11th in the world in the 2016 Nature Index for high impact publications in Earth and Environmental Science!

     

     

  • Please join us this Thursday, March 24, at 3:35p.m. in 110 PillsHall,  for the department seminar from Dr. Ying Fan Reinfelder, Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
    "Watering the Land from Below: Groundwater Influence on the Terrestrial Environment". 

  • Alumna, Hope Jahren, BA 1991, is interviewed by Nautilus about her upcoming book, Lab Girl.  Learn more here.
    "See also the     rave review of the book in the New York Times".

  • Congratulations to Jake Bailey who won the Guillermo E. Borja Career Development Award.

    You can find out more information about the award and past recipients here.

     

  • A gathering to celebrate Herb Wright's long and productive life will be held on Sunday, April 3, 2016 from 2 to 5pm at the Memorial Hall of the McNamara Center on the East Bank Campus.  For planning purposes, please RSVP to <esci@umn.edu> .  Please click HERE to read more about Herb and his career.

  • Dr. Anne E. Carey will be speaking on Thursday, February 4, at 3:35PM in room 110 PIllsHall. The title of her talk is Two sides to every range: Orographic effects, stream hydrology, and chemical weathering in la Sierra de las Minas, Guatemala.

  • Congratulations to Sally Gregory Kolhstedt on her 2015 Joseph H. Hazen Education Prize!

  • Congratulations to Larry Edwards on being elected a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. More information about this accomplishment can be found here. 

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