University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Geosciences

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• Congratulations go out to Carrie Petrik, she was one of five students awarded an Angelo Tagliacozzo Memorial Geological Scholarship for the 2007-2008 academic year. The NE-AIPG believes that the Angelo Tagliacozzo Memorial Geological Scholarship is one of the few scholarships specifically offered to future geologists by practicing geologists. Read the whole announcement here.

• Congratulations to Kat Plourde. Her poster that was presented at the AGU 2007 Meeting in December entitled Evaluation of the Effects of Cementation on Specific Storage of Granular Porous Media Using Discrete Element Models was awarded an Outstanding Student Paper award. This award is given to student authors judged to be the top 1% of student presentations at the meeting. Please join us in congratulating Kat for this achievement.

• Congratulations to PhD student Celeste Asikainen. Her recent article about her research on ferromanganese nodules in Second Connecticut Lake, New Hampshire resulted in an interview by the UMass Office of News & Information, and can be viewed here. There is also more information on the Grad Pride page.

• Ray Bradley, Mattias Vuille, and Doug Hardy were among the IPCC members who were awarded the Nobel Prize along with Al Gore.
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• Alan Marcus has been awarded the prize for the best national PhD dissertation in both Cultural Geography and Ethnic Geography by the Association of American Geographers, and received the awards at the AAG meeting in Boston on April 19th. He has also accepted an assistant professorship in the Geography Department at Towson University. Read more here

• Mark Leckie recently followed up on his Deep Earth Acadamy's 2007 School of Rock with a visit to two schools in Tennessee, where he was able to interact with both elementary and high school students. Take a look at the Ocean Leadership page.

Sedimentology Faculty Search - Spring, 2008. We are currently searching for a Sedimentology Faculty Member. Click here for a PDF of the ad.




	Summer Field Work Department Lectures & Events Follow the orange links for more info GLS, Fridays, 3:30 Mor 136 • May 9th - Michael Celia from Princeton University will give a talk entitled: Geological Storage as a Carbon Mitigation Option. ProSem, Fridays , 12:20 Hasbrk 126 • May 9th: Kat Plourde - TBA Geography Brownbag Lunch Series, Mor 136, 12:20 •May 7th - Kelly Lemmons - "Salt Lake City's Urban Growth and Kennecott Utah Copper: A Geographical Analysis of Urban Expansion onto a Previously Proposed Superfund Site Adjacent to the World's Largest Copper Mine" AND Piper Gaubatz - "Regional Economies and urban Design in China: Secondary Globalization and the Journey to the West" Department Baby photo contest answer key View the Faculty News Page View the Student News Page View the Alumni News Page	Geosciences News Fall 2008 COURSE LIST Register on Spire • Congratulations go out to Carrie Petrik, she was one of five students awarded an Angelo Tagliacozzo Memorial Geological Scholarship for the 2007-2008 academic year. The NE-AIPG believes that the Angelo Tagliacozzo Memorial Geological Scholarship is one of the few scholarships specifically offered to future geologists by practicing geologists. Read the whole announcement here. • Congratulations to Kat Plourde. Her poster that was presented at the AGU 2007 Meeting in December entitled Evaluation of the Effects of Cementation on Specific Storage of Granular Porous Media Using Discrete Element Models was awarded an Outstanding Student Paper award. This award is given to student authors judged to be the top 1% of student presentations at the meeting. Please join us in congratulating Kat for this achievement. • Congratulations to PhD student Celeste Asikainen. Her recent article about her research on ferromanganese nodules in Second Connecticut Lake, New Hampshire resulted in an interview by the UMass Office of News & Information, and can be viewed here. There is also more information on the Grad Pride page. • Ray Bradley, Mattias Vuille, and Doug Hardy were among the IPCC members who were awarded the Nobel Prize along with Al Gore. Read more here • Alan Marcus has been awarded the prize for the best national PhD dissertation in both Cultural Geography and Ethnic Geography by the Association of American Geographers, and received the awards at the AAG meeting in Boston on April 19th. He has also accepted an assistant professorship in the Geography Department at Towson University. Read more here • Mark Leckie recently followed up on his Deep Earth Acadamy's 2007 School of Rock with a visit to two schools in Tennessee, where he was able to interact with both elementary and high school students. Take a look at the Ocean Leadership page. Sedimentology Faculty Search - Spring, 2008. We are currently searching for a Sedimentology Faculty Member. Click here for a PDF of the ad.






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