Graduate Student Dipa Desai was recently profiled on the Time Scavengers blog! Dipa is a paleoclimatologist who studies how Antarctica responded to past warming events in addition to being a stellar earth science educator. Read the article here...
Graduate students Daniel Miller, Helen Habicht, and Benjamin Keisling, with Dr.'s Isla Castañeda and Ray Bradley published the longest and highest-resolution climate record for the Northeastern United States in Climate of
Dr.'s Erik Shook (University of Minnesota) and Forrest Bowlick recently published a paper in The Professional Geographer on formalizing geospatial computing education and increasing cyber literacy in GIST programs. Read more...
A new paper in Solid Earth by alum Dr. Jess McBeck (University of Oslo) and professor Michele Cooke uses digital image correlation on scaled physical experiments to calculate the evolving work budget associated with accretion faulting. Read More...
Dr. Rob DeConto is featured in this article in The Atlantic: Antarctic ice melt due to climate change might not be as bad as initially thought, but may still contribute about 1 foot of sea level rise by the year 2100. Read more...
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 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.
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...
Alum Nicole Gillet, Dr. Eve Vogel, alum Noah Slovin, and Dr.
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.
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.
Thanks to the efforts of Dr.'s Ray Bradley and Micheal Rawlins, UMass Amherst has joined 116 other North American colleges and universities in the UCAR consortium, which focuses on research and training in Earth system science.UCAR manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research with sponsorship by the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Toby Applegate, a lecturer in the Geography program, has been awarded a year-long fellowship from Smith College’s Kahn Liberal Arts Institute to contribute to an interdisciplinary project on refugees and forced migration. The fellowship provides both support for ongoing research and an opportunity to participate in a year-long faculty seminar.
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