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.
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.
The work of many of our department researchers, as part of RiverSmart Communities was recently highlighted on 2 local television programs: WGBY and Greenfield Community Television.
Professor J. Michael Rhodes has been elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. The awards ceremony will be in New Orleans on Oct. 22, 2017 at the Society's Annual Meeting.
The Geosciences Alumni Reunion Weekend will be happening on October 6th, 7th, and 8th this year.
For more information, see the event page here.
Research Fellow Dana MacDonald taught a 2-day workshop on recognizing evidence of Paleo-fires in the geologic record and conducted field research at the University of the West Indies - Mona, in Kingston, Jamaica. The WHOI Coastal Group published a short article on his research the workshop here.
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