Department of Earth Sciences
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences

Department News Archive

  • 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!

  • 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. 

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