Department of Earth Sciences
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences

Department News Archive

  • 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!

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Brady Foreman, UofMN, St. Anthony Falls Lab; Fluvial Response to the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Thur, April 25, 3:30 p.m., 110 PillsH

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Donna Whitney, UofMN, Dept of Earth Sciences, The Ultimate Fate of the Crust, Thurs, Apr 18, 3:30 p.m., 110 PillsH

  • The department is pleased to announce the success of our recent searches resulting in the hire of two new faculty members: Crystal Ng and Andy Wickert in the fields of hydrogeology and surface-process respectively.  We are happy they will be joining us in the next year or so!  Please check our faculty web site for updates.

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Katsumi Matsumoto, UofMN, Dept of Earth Sciences; Atmospheric Radiocarbon and Rapid Climate Change during Deglaciation, Thurs, April 11 at 3:30 pm in 110 PillsH.

  • STUDENTS: Dept of Earth Sciences is hosting a career panel for students interested in what types of Earth science related jobs are out there.  Four alumni from the department will be on hand to discuss their chosen career path.  Tues, April 2 from 3:30-5:30 p.m. in the Winchell Reading Room (204 PillsH).

  • The IRM gets a shout-out in a NYTimes article about the meteorite that soared through the sky and landed in Russia back in February - read here.

  • SEMINAR: COMPRES Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Liz Cottrell, Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program; A Galvanizing Talk About Mantle Redox Heterogeneity ; Thurs, April 4 at 3:30 p.m., 110 PillsH

  • Prof. Martin Saar's, Jimmy Randolph's (PhD 2011), and Thomas Kuehn's Carbon Dioxide-Based Geothermal Energy Generation Systems and Methods Related Thereto patent is featured on the UofMN's Patent Roundup!

  • Seminar: GeoPRISMS Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Magali Billen, Univ of California-Davis, Dept of Geology; From the Outer Rise to the Transition Zone: Observations and Models of Plate and Mantle Deformation during Subduction on Thurs, March 28 at 3:30 p.m. in 110 PillsH; -AND- A Local, Dynamic Cause of Flat Slab Subduction and Slab-Parallel Mantle Flow, on Fri, March 29, Fri, 10:10 a.m., 121 PillsH

     

     

  • The Spring 2013 issue of the departmental alumni newsletter should arrive in your mailbox shortly. Meanwhile, here are the latest news and stories for you to enjoy.  We are collecting alumni updates for the next issue, so please send them to esci@umn.edu.

  • No seminar this week - it is spring break!

  • Seminar:  Dr. Shanan Peters, Univ Wisconsin-Madision, Dept of Geosciences; Phanerozoic Earth System Evolution: a View from the Upper Crust; Thurs, March 14 at 3:30 p.m., 110 PillsH

  • Seminar: Dr. Seth Stein, Northwestern Univ, Dept of Earth & Planetary Sci; Why Earthquake Hazards Maps often fail, and what to do about it; Thurs, March 7 at 3:30 p.m. in 110 PillsH

  • Congratulations to UMGS (aka Geoclub) president, Alexis Iverson, and her crew for writing a successful proposal and securing $3K in funding from the CSE Dean's office to put toward the spring field trip to the SW U.S.!!  Nice job!

  • Seminar: Dr. Juergen Schieber, Indiana Univ, Dept of Geol Sci; The Mars Science Lab Landing and Recent Geological Investigations on Thurs, Feb 28 at 3:30 p.m., 110 PillsH; -AND- An Overview of Experimental Mudstone Sedimentology - Results of Experiments and Applications to the Rock Record on Fri, March 1 at 10:10 p.m., 121 PillsH

  • POSTPONED UNTIL FUTURE NOTICE:  PhD Thesis Defense of Ted Fuller; Field, Experimental and Numerical Investigations into the Mechanisms and Drivers of Lateral Erosion in Bedrock Rivers; Tues, Feb 26, 10:00 a.m., 105 PillsH; Thesis advisors:  Chris Paola and Karen Gran.

  • Congratulations to grad student, Antoinette Abeyta, for receiving an Outstanding Student Paper Award from the Fall 2012 AGU Meeting!!  Well done!

  • Congratulations to grad student, Chris Spencer, for having been awarded an NSF Summer Fellowship to work in Beijing at a software company as part of his doctoral research on cyber-infrastructure!

  • MGS Chief Geologist, Tony Runkel, talks with TPT's Almanac at the Capital about the value of Minnesota's sand with regards to the hot topic of 'fracking'. View episode here.

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