Department of Earth Sciences
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences

Department News Archive

  • 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.

  • 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

     

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