In 2012, a large earthquake occurred in the Indian Ocean that cut the entire oceanic lithosphere (rigid plate). This is an unusual earthquake, and because the fault plane...
Ash Hood, a NASA Astrobiology Postdoc in the department, and colleagues present the first uranium isotope results from different components of a ~650 million year old...
Packard Fellowships are one of the top few awards worldwide recognizing the accomplishments of early-career scientists and engineers across all disciplines. They aim to...
Our very own illustrious Department Chair Jay Ague has been named a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America (http://www.minsocam.org/msa/Awards/Fellowship.html). ...
Earth’s earliest community of complex sea creatures lived in a warm, slimy, planetary petri dish that nurtured a broad array of exotic species. Yet we likely wouldn’t know...
Sahil Agarwal (Applied Mathematics) studies changes in the Arctic sea ice, even though he’s not an environmental scientist. He also searches for exoplanets (those that orbit...
Back in the 19th century, Charles Darwin wondered why he could find no fossil evidence of life that predated the Cambrian Period, 541–485.4 million years ago. He understood...
