UMass Geosciences at AGU
Several faculty and students will be presenting research at the annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Washington DC from December 10th-14th. Below is a schedule of where and when to see them!
Professor Michele Cooke on Deaf Gain in the scientific community
Professor Michele L. Cooke was recently featured by UMass Magazine discussing Deaf Gain and the value that deaf and hard-of-hearing people provide to the larger community.
Rawlins and Boutt on extremely wet autumn in New England
Dr.'s Michael Rawlins and David Boutt weigh in on the how and why this was one of the wettest autumns on record for New England. Read More...
Riversmart Communities authors chapter in Handbook of Critical Physical Geography
Alum Nicole Gillet, Dr. Eve Vogel, alum Noah Slovin, and Dr.
XRF Facility receives NSF grant to upgrade equipment
This grant pays for a new X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) spectrometer to replace two old and failing X-ray spectrometers at UMass-Amherst. The current instruments have operated constantly for more than 30 years. The new instrument will continue to be an important resource for the students and faculty at UMass, the Five College consortium in the region and universities worldwide. The UMass laboratory has served scientists the world over for more than 30 years. It will now be able to continue the tradition as a valuable and trusted resource for high quality XRF chemical analyses to the U.S.
Morse awarded Peacock Medal by Mineralogical Association of Canada
Stearns A. “Tony” Morse, professor emeritus of geosciences, has received the Mineralogical Association of Canada’s Peacock Medal, its highest award, for “outstanding contributions to the mineral sciences of Canada.” The award was presented at a lunch June 19 during the association’s annual meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. Read more...
Collaborative open-access paper offers 900-year temperature history for New England
A collaboration between the Northeast Climate Adapatation Science Center, students, and faculty in the department has resulted in the first decade-scale paleotemperature reconstruction for New England, spanning ~900 years.
U-Mass Geosciences at GSA 2018 in Indianapolis!
Several of our students and faculty will be presenting their work at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Indiannapolis. If you're at the conference, be sure to check them out!
Sunday, 4 November 2018
08:05 AM - 08:20 AM
Hatch, Cooke, Marshall with new paper on Southern San Andreas
Graduate student Jennifer Hatch, Professor Michele Cooke, and alum Dr. Scott Marshall just published a new open access paper in Geosphere on the active geometry of the southern San Andreas fault: A complicated system, with much more data needed to vastly improve current models of fault geometry and slip rates.
Earth Science Week Open House Highlights teaching labs, unveils pillow basalt in Morrill Courtyard
We had a busy and successful open house of our new teaching lab on Friday, featuring an analog modeling table for structural geology, flume table, augmented reality sandbox, and, of course, our alumni-funded stone tables, in addition to the
New Paper by Dr. Forrest Bowlick and Dr. Dawn Wright on GIS and geography
A new paper by Dr. Forrest Bowlick and Dr. Dawn Wright (ESRI) in The Professional Geographer discusses the frontiers of geography and how skills in research computing and programming operate in geography and GIS, especially given the rise of data-centric approaches to research in these realms.
Larsen awarded prestigious 3-year NASA New Investigator grant
Geologist and geochemist Dr. Isaac Larsen is used to tramping around in the dirt to conduct his soil research, but satellite photos of the Iowa farmhouse where he grew up have added a new dimension to the work, and he now has a grant from NASA to study soils in a whole new way, from space.
Geosciences at the Massachusetts Undergraduate Research Conference
Several of our Geosciences students, and other students that our faculty have sponsored, are presenting today at the Massachusetts Undergraduate Research Conference in the U-Mass Campus Center. Pop on by to hear about their great research:
Undergraduates present research at 5 college geology symposium
Eight UMass Geosciences undergraduates presented their research at the 5 College Geology Symposium at Amherst College on Tuesday, April 24th, 2018:
Post-Doc Will Daniels on NASA mission to improve astronaut experience
Postdoctoral researcher Will Daniels is about to spend 45 days "away from Earth" - without ever leaving the ground - as part of NASA's 17th Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA) mission at NASA - Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. Read more...
UMass Geosciences at EGU in Vienna
Several of our faculty and students are presenting at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) general assembly in Vienna, Austria, this week:
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U-Mass Geosciences presentations at AAG 2018 in New Orleans this week!
In New Orleans this week for The Association of American Geographers (AAG) annual meeting? Check out these presentations by U-Mass fauclty and students:
Cyber Literacy for GIScience: Toward Formalizing Geospatial Computing Education
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Kaitlyn Suarez awarded competitive NSF Fellowship
We're proud to announce that graduate student Kaitlyn Suarez has been awarded a 2017 Graduate Research Fellowship by the National Science Foundation, which will fund her graduate research for 3 years. Kaitlyn is among 8 fellows who are pursuing their graduate degrees at U-Mass Amherst.
New paper by Dr. Haiying Gao on Cascadia Subduction Zone
A new paper in Nature Communications by Dr. Haiying Gao correlates earthquake distribution in the Cascadia Subduction Zone with 3D variations in the geometry of the subducting slab. Read more...
New paper models future earthquake and tsunami risk in southeast Japan
Graduate student Hannah Baranes, along with her advisor Jonathon Woodruff, Smith College professor Jack Loveless, and Mamoru Hyodo (Japanese Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology) unveiled a new, GPS-based methods for modeling earthquake-induced tsunamis for southeast Japan along the Nankai Trough in a new paper published
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