Department of Earth Sciences
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences

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  • 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!

  • Seminar: Dr. Mike D'Emic, Stony Brook University, Anatomical Sciences Department;Giants Under the Microscope: Inferring Dinosaur Paleobiology via Fossil Microstructure; Thurs, Apr 24 at 3:35 p.m. in 110 PillsH

  • Special Seminar-Dr. Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, Astronaut, Pilot, Geologist, and Politician -- "The the only scientist and last of 12 men to step onto the Moon."Field Geology in the Valley of Taurus-Littrow on the Moon Friday, April 25 at 10am Bell Museum Auditorium. Click here for information on AirSpace MN's public events on Saturday, April 26.

  • Seminar: Dr. Stuart Simmons, University of Utah, Energy & Geoscience Institute; Beowawe to Wairakei: Discovery & Assessment of Geothermal Resources; Thurs, April 17 at 3:35 p.m., 110 PillsH

  • Our condolences to the family of alumnus, Richard F. Hardyman (MS 1969,) who passed away on March 24, 2014.  His family has written a wonderful tribute to Dick which, originally published in the Reno Gazette-Journal, can be found here.

  • Seminar: Dr. Ellen Syracuse, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Linking Arcs to Subducting Slabs: A Global Perspective on Slab Seismicity, Temperature, and Hydration; Thur, April 10 at 3:35 p.m., 110 PillsH

  • Seminar: Dr. Stephen Laubach, University of Texas-Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology; Effects of Concurrent Cement Precipitation on Fracture Growth; Thurs, Apr 3 at 3:30 p.m., 110 PillsH

  • Reception to honor Kathy Ohler's retirement after 35 years of service to the department.  Friday, April 4 at 3:00 p.m., Winchell Reading Room (204 PillsH).

  • Seminar: AAPG Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Torbjörn Törnqvist, Tulane University, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences; What Makes the Mississippi Delta Sink?; Thurs, March 27 at 3:30 p.m., 110 PillsH

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  • Congratulations to Jake Bailey who is a 2014 recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship! These awards are given to "early-career scholars [who] represent the most promising scientific researchers working today".

  • Larry Edwards and Marc Hirschmann have both been selected as new Fellows of the Geochemical Society. Congratulations!

  • Seminar: Dr. Benjamin Schwartz, Texas State Univ, Dept of Biology; Epikarst Hydrogeology and Deep Artesian Biology in the Trinity and Edwards Aquifers of Central Texas, USA; Thurs, Jan 30 @ 3:30 p.m. in 110 PillsH.

  • Seminar:  Dr. Eoghan Reeves, MIT, Dept Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; Time series observations of seafloor magmatic-hydrothermal processes in the Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea; Thurs, Jan 23 @ 3:30 p.m. in 110 PillsH

  • PhD thesis defense of Erkan Toraman, Late-Stage Exhumation of Metamorphic Core Complexes and Landscape Development during Orogenic Collapse of the North American Cordillera; Fri, Jan 24 @ 10 a.m. in 110 PillsH

  • Congratulations to PhD student, Becky Strauss, for having been awarded an AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award! 

  • Congratulations to PhD student, Michele Stillinger, for her magnetic-dating research having been featured in the AGU Blogosphere!

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