Department of Earth Sciences
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences

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  • No seminar this week on Thursday, November 26, 2015.

  • Please join us on Thursday, November 19 @ 3:35 P.M. for Dario Bilardello's seminar; "A Paleomagnetic and Anisotropy Study of the Itarare Group from SE Brazil in the context of the Pangea controversy: inclination shallowing or pervasive remagnetizations?"

  • Please join us on Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 3:35p.m. in 110 PillsHall for Dr. Kamini Singha's seminar
    Advances in x-ray vision: new applications of geophysics to hydrogeology at the catchment scale

  • No seminar this week due to GSA. Seminar will return on Thursday, November 12, 2015.

  • Please join us on Thursday, October 29, 2015 at 3:35p.m. in 110 PillsHall  for Dr. Jake Bailey's seminar
    "What can Meta’-omics tell us about Geobiological Processes?"

  • Congratulations to Cameron Meyers on his winning essay!

  • Please join us on Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 3:35p.m. in room 100 Smith Hall for Dr. John A. Cherry's seminar on Field Investigations as the Impetus for Scientific Discovery in Contaminant Hydrogeology

     

  • Research Professor Mike Jackson of the Institute for Rock Magnetism has been elected as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. He is also the 2015 recipient of the William Gilbert Award from AGU's Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism section.

     

     

  • Emeritus Professor Calvin Alexander was recenlty named a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. Congratulations Calvin!

  • Congratulations to Larry Edwards who was recently named a Regents Professor.

    The Regents Professorship serves as the highest recognition for faculty who have made unique contributions to the quality of the University of Minnesota through exceptional accomplishments in teaching, research, and scholarship or creative work and contributions to the public good. 

  • Congratulations to Professor Jake Bailey and his team on their new MN Futures Grant to study bacterial polyphosphate metabolism. This was only 1 of 2 grants awarded (out of 85 proposals submitted), and represents a new and interesting collaboration between the Bailey lab and colleagues in the School of Dentistry. 

  • Please join us for information on geosciences careers outside of academia. More information can about this event can be found here. 

  • Professor Jake Bailey will receive a 2015 Simons Early Career Investigator Award in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution.

  • Professor Calvin Alexander featured on MPRNews.

  • Research scientist Hai Cheng (isotope geochemistry) has been elected a Geochemical Society Fellow.

  • Paul Morin, PGC Director, is being awarded an honorary degree from Colorado College at their commencement this spring!

     

  • Polar Geospatial Center is featured in UMNews to read the article click here.

  • Congratulations to Sally Kohlstedt who received the President's Award from the Council of Graduate Students! Read more here:


  • Seminar: Earthscope Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Mousumi Roy, University of New Mexico, Department of Physics & Astronomy
    How Cenozoic Magmatic Patterns in the Western US and their Relation to Evolution of the Colorado Plateau; Thurs, May 8 at 3:30pm 110PillsH

  • Congratulations to alumnus, Jon Carlson, BS 1987, who is one of the finalists for Entrepreneur Of The Year™ 2014 in the Upper Midwest!

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