Congratulations to Dr. Piper Gaubatz on receiving The American Association of Geographers China Specialty Group outstanding service award! This award is presented to the individuals who provided significant services and leadership or made important contributions to the advancement of China geography studies.
Dr. Michele Cooke and PhD student Jennifer Beyer find unexpected ‘Deep Creep’ Near the San Andreas and San Jacinto Faults. Their analysis shows enigmatic earthquake pattern in San Bernardino basin is not typical. Find out more by visiting our site. Read More...
Dr. Jon Woodruff discusses a paper about the fate of coastal wetlands with #sealevelrise in a recent Nature News and Views. Read more....
Dr. Steve Petsch published a piece in The Conversation on the new Meghalayan age and how it fits with the rest of Earth’s geologic history. Read more here.
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Postdoc Will Daniels shares photos and updates from summer fieldwork in Greenland on a project led by Dr.'s Isla Castañeda and Ray Bradley on his blog. Read More...
In a recent paper in Geophysical Research Letters, a team of geophysicists led by doctoral student Cong Li and Dr. Haiying Gao, for the first time, report unexpected, dramatic differences in the thickness of the earth’s crust along the coast of New England. Read More...
The NE Climate Adaptation Science Center recently funded two project by the Dept. of Geosciences: Dr.'s Jon Woodruff, Brian Yellen, Tim Cook, received research funding to study climate change's effects on tidal wetlands in the Northeast, while Dr. Rob DeConto received funding to research local sea level rise & vulnerability along its coastline.
Dr. Christine Hatch has been selected as one of nine fellows to participate in the 2018-2019 U-Mass Amherst Sustainability Curriculum Fellowship. The Sustainability Curriculum Fellowship (SCF) is a year-long interdisciplinary fellowship program that enables UMass faculty to cultivate teaching excellence in sustainability. Read More...
Dr. Forrest Bowlick was recently awarded funding for an NSF grant proposal titled 'Hour of Cyberinfrastructure: Developing Cyber Literacy for Geographic Information Science’. He and his colleagues will be developing one-hour, Jupyter notebook based learning materials to broaden teaching and learning capacities in modern GIS instructional needs, and providing training and outreach opportunities for students and faculty. It is a three year grant in collaboration with researchers at Minnesota, Illinois, and S.
A new paper by the UMass Riversmart Team, including former postdoc Dr. Benjamin Warner, Dr. John Gartner, and Dr. Christine Hatch, on their work with doing river corridor mapping was just published in the Journal of Flood Risk Management. Check it out!
The geosciences department, internationally known as host to one of the top electron microprobe laboratories in the world, will add a new, state-of-the-art $1.1 million microprobe to its toolkit later this year, say professors Michael Williams and Michael Jercinovic, who direct the electron microprobe/scanning electron microscope facility in Morrill Science Center ...read more
Graduate student Laura Fattaruso is hosting a new radio show on WMUA 91.1 FM on Tuesdays 4:30pm-5:30pm. "Lab Talk with Laura" highlights work by U-Mass researchers and beyond. To sign up for an interview, fill out this form. More information can be found here.
Dr. Mark Leckie and graduate student Benjamin Keisling are currently aboard the JOIDES Resolution on a 2-month long deep-sea drilling expedition to Antarctica. For more information, check out this article and follow IODP Expidition 374 on Twitter by following the hashtag #EXP374.
Last year, the department of Geosciences received a generous donation of a fossil collection from Lawrence Osborn.
Professor Rob DeConto is a co-author of a new study, published in the open-access Earth's Future journal, that combines a well-established sea-level rise projection framework plus a model of Antarctic ice-sheet instability suggest in a paper released today that scientists won’t be able to determine until the 2060s which of two different sea-level rise scenarios is most likely to oc
Alum Dr. Jessica McBeck, Professor Michele Cooke, and former post-doctoral research associate Dr. Elizabeth Madden published new research in Tectonics on work optimization between the Hayward and Rodger's Creek Faults under the San Pablo Bay in California. You can access the article here.
Alum Dr. Chris Lowery, Professor Mark Leckie, graduate student Raquel Bryant and several alums from the micropaleontology just published a paper in Earth Science Reviews summarizing 13 million years of oxygenation change in the Western Interior Seaway. Read the article here.
RiverSmart Communities collaborators Dr. Benjamin Warner (former post-doc, now at UNM), Dr. John Gartner, and Dr.
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