Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Department News Archive

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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!

  • Prof. Marc Hirschmann has been elected a Fellow of the Geochemical Society and European Association of Geochemistry for 2014! The ceremony will be at the 2014 Goldschmidt conference in Sacramento, CA.  Congratulations to Marc on his latest award!

     

  • Seminar:  IODP Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Jennifer Biddle, Univ of Delaware, College of Earth, Ocean, and the Environment; Microbial Life in the Subsurface: Letting the Sequences Tell the Story; Thurs, Dec 5 at 3:30 p.m. in 110 Pillsbury Hall.

  • Congratulations to former faculty member, Prof. Frederick J. (Sam) Sawkins (1968-1991) for having been awarded Honorary Fellow status by the council of the Society of Economic Geologists, at its meeting in Whislter, BC, Canada in September of this year.  Congratulations, Sam!

  • As a fundraiser, the UMGS (GeoClub) is selling 2014 calendars using field photos from various people in the department. Please click HERE to preview and pre-order your calendar(s)!  Thank you!

  • There is no departmental seminar this week due to the Thanksgiving holiday. It is a good time to take a moment and reflect on the positive things in your life; for what are you thankful?

  • Seminar: Dr. David George, USGS, Cascades Volcano Observatory, Modelling and Simulating Hazardous Shallow Surface Flows, from tsunamis to landslides, Thurs, Nov 21 at 3:30 p.m. in 110 PillsH.

  • Congratulations to alumnus, Christopher Gonzalez (BS 2011) for having been awarded 'Best Poster' at the CCFS Lithosphere Dynamics Workshop held in Perth, Australia in November.  Great job, Chris!

  • Seminar: Dr. Alexis Navarre-Sitchler, Colorado School of Mines, Dept of Geology & Geological Engineering; Geochemical Consequences of CO2 Leakage into Shallow Water Aquifers, Thurs, Nov 14 at 3:30 p.m. in 110 PillsH; -AND-  Neutron Scattering as a Tool to Evaluate Porosity and Surface Area in Geological Samples on Friday, Nov 15, 11:15 a.m., 121 PillsH.

  • In the news: Assoc. Prof. Martin Saar and alumnus, Jimmy Randolph (PhD 2011) are in the news for their federally funded CO2-based geothermal energy research and startup company, Heat Mining Company, LLC.  Articles in The Science Coalition (page 14), and the Minnesota Daily. Congratulations!

  • Congratulations! to Prof. Marc Hirschmann for having been selected as the 2015 recipient of the Mineralogical Society of America's Dana Medal, an award for excellence given to mid-career researchers in the mineralogical sciences.

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