Graduate student Raquel Bryant and Professor Dr. Michele Cooke were awarded competetive Outstanding Achievement awards by the College of Natural Sciences (CNS) at U-Mass Amherst. Raquel was recognized for her achievments in furthering diversity and inclusion in CNS, while Dr.
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.
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.
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:
Eight UMass Geosciences undergraduates presented their research at the 5 College Geology Symposium at Amherst College on Tuesday, April 24th, 2018:
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...
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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In New Orleans this week for The Association of American Geographers (AAG) annual meeting? Check out these presentations by U-Mass fauclty and students:
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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.
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...
Several of our faculty and students are presenting their research at the GSA annual meeting in Seattle this week. Below is a schedule of presentations, sessions chaired, and events hosted by members of our department:
Doctoral Candidate Laura Fattarusso produced a short video highlighting the work of the Dr. Michele Cooke's research group at the Geomechanics Lab and their modeling of strike-slip fault evolution. Watch the video here.
The Department of Geosciences was invited to create five exhibits showcasing various subjects in earth science, which is currently on display in the Integrated Science Building until the Fall of 2018. A webpage with a link to each exhibit can be found here.
Dr. Michael Rawlins, associate director of the Climate Systems Research Center, received grants from NASA and the U.S. DOE to study climate driven changes in arctic ecosystems. The grants will allow Rawlins and his team to expand on his multi-institutional effort to understand biological processes and land-ocean interactions controlling the structure and function of the Beaufort Lagoons complex in northern Alaska.
Dr. Robert DeConto has received a four-year grant from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Prediction of and Resilience Against Extreme Events (PREEVENTS) program.The goal of the grant is to better characterize the uncertainty in sea-level rise predictions and coastal flooding risk that stems from complex ice-sheet physics and interactions among the ice sheets, ocean, atmosphere and underlying solid land.
Associate Professor David Boutt received an award from the state of Massachusetts to continue monitoring isotopes in groundwater across the state. These data can be used to examine the impacts of drought vs. wet weather on groundwater.
Dr. Michele Cooke and recent graduates Alex Hatem and Kevin Toeneboehn recently published a paper in the Journal of Structural Geology on the formation and growth of strike slip faults and their relation to earthquakes. More information can be found here.
The paper can be found here.
The American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Focus Group announced this week that it has chosen Isaac Larsen, assistant professor of geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, to receive the coveted Luna B. Leopold Young Scientist Award for 2017. It recognizes a young scientist “for making a significant and outstanding contribution that advances the field of earth and planetary surface processes.”
Dr. Qian Yu is the author of what has become one of the top ten most-cited papers in remote sensing over the past decade!
More information on Google Scholar's "Classic Papers" can be found here.
A new article in Water Resources Research, co-authored by adjunct professor Brian Yellen, examines long-term dynamics in sediment yield by using time-varying sediment-discharge rating curves.
The article can be found here.
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