Department of Earth Sciences
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences

Department News Archive

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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!

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