Geology & Geophysics graduate student, Daniel Field, was awarded the William S. Hoar Award for the best student talk at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of...
About 55.5 million years ago, geologically rapid emission of a large volume of greenhouse gases at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary (PETM) led to global warming of about 5oC,...
Andong He saw a phenomenon at work in his breakfast bowl that he couldn’t explain. It prompted this question: How does cereal shape influence the way cereals floating in the...
Daniel received a Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellowship which will provide him the opportunity to spend a semester as a graduate student in residence at the Smithshonian...
Rachel has received an NSF funded East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI) research scholarship. She’ll be travelling to Japan in June, and explicitly working on...
Bill Boos has received an NSF CAREER award for his proposal: “The Influence of Desert Heat Lows on Monsoon Precipitation”. As NSF says on its website, the CAREER program is...
Temperature patterns during Earth’s last prolonged global “hot spell”–the Pliocene, some 5.3 to 2.6 million years ago–differed dramatically from those of...