Department of Earth Sciences
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences

Department News Archive

  • 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!

  • Please join us on Thursday, October 19 at 4p.m., in room 105 Tate Hall for a seminar by Dr. Jonathan Levine, Colgate University, Department of Physics & Astronomy
    Dating Martians and Lunatics: development of an in-situ rock dating instrument for Mars and the Moon

  • Please join us on Thursday, October 12 at 4p.m., in room 105 Tate Hall for a seminar by Dr. Anat Shahar, Carnegie Institution of Washington
    Exploring Planetary Differentiation Through an Isotopic Lens

  • Please join us on Thursday, October 5 at 4p.m., in room 105 Tate Hall for a seminar by Dr. Jeff Havig, University of Minnesota, Department of Earth Sciences
    Ancient mysteries and modern analogs: Exploring the Archean and Proterozoic through the geochemistry of present-day sites

  •  Please join us on Thursday, September 28 at 4p.m., in room 105 Tate Hall for a seminar by Dr. Dan Fornari, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Geology & Geophysics 
    Seafloor Volcanism: Creating the Oceanic Crust on Seamounts and Mid-Ocean Ridges 

  • Please join us Thursday, September 21 at 4p.m., in room 105 Tate Hall for a seminar by Dr. Elizabeth Kujawinski, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry
    Finding New Ways to Track Microbial Metabolism in the Ocean

     

  • See how two of our paleontology grad students -- David Birlenbach and Evan Whiting -- spent part of their summer
    https://z.umn.edu/2tr3

  • 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

    "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.

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