Department of Earth Sciences
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences

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  • 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?

  • 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. 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.

  • 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.

  • Dept Seminar:  Dr. Lee Kump, Penn State, Dept of Geosciences, Oxygenation of Earth's Atmosphere, Thurs, Nov 7 at 3:30 p.m., 110 PillsH.

  • PhD Thesis Defense of Greg Brick; Nitrate Accumulations in the Sediments of Ephemeral Rock Crevices in the Upper Mississippi Valley; Fri, June 14 at 1:30 p.m. in 110 Pillsbury Hall. Thesis advisor:  Calvin Alexander

  • Special Seminar: Dr. Kimberly Cobb, Georgia Tech, Dept of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences; Climate Lessons from Tropical Stalagmites:  the last 100,000 years; Thurs, June 13 at 2:00 p.m. in 110 Pillsbury Hall.

  • PhD thesis defense of Tao Wang; Seismic Structure around the 660 in Subduction Zones and its Implications; Thur, May 30 at 9:30 a.m., 110 PillsH

  • MS Thesis Defense of Lauren Idleman; Burial and Exhumation Cycles Tracked by 40Ar/39Ar  and Apatite (U-Th)/He Thermochronology in a Strike-Slip Fault Zone, Central Turkey; Fri, May 17 at 9 a.m., 121 PillsH.

  • MS Thesis Defense of Christie Villanueva; Evolution of a Metamorphic Gradient in the Footwall of the Northern Snake Range Detachment, Nevada; Fri, May 17 at 12:30 p.m. in 121 PillsH.

  • Congratulations to Peter Hudleston for having been awarded GSA's Structural Geology & Tectonics Career Contributions Award!!  This award is given to Peter for his distinguished career of scholarly research, his long history of generous service to the structural geology and tectonics community, and his impressive record of teaching and mentoring geoscientists. The award will be presented during the GSA 2013 Annual Meeting in Denver, at the SGT awards ceremony on Tuesday, 29 October.  Congrats, Peter!

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Lisa Tauxe, UC-San Diego, Scripps Inst of Oceanography; Hunting the Magnetic Field; Thurs, May 2 at 3:30 p.m. in 110 PillsH.  And, as part of the CSE Distinguished Women Scientiests & Engineers Speakers Program, Dr. Tauxe will meet with women from CSE during an informal luncheon at noon.  Please contact Roxanne Renedo <rened001@umn.edu> if you wish to attend.

  • Congratulations the recent recipients of the departmental undergraduate and graduate student awards!  We are very proud of our students!

  • Congratulations to CompSci PhD student, Joe Myre (co-advised by ESci prof, Martin Saar) for having been award an NSF Earth Science Post-doctoral Fellowship starting this fall.  Joe will fulfill his post-doc at the Univ of Arkansas-Fayetteville.  Good job, Joe!

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