This week several faculty and students are presenting at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting in Washington DC. If you're there, check out these great talks by Kevin Bean, Dr. Forrest Bowlick, Xin Li, Dr. Eve Vogel, and Dr. Piper Gaubatz:
A 1:24,000-scale geologic map and database of surficial materials has been released by the USGS for Massachusetts. This has been a major effort by State Geologist Steve Mabee and the Massachusetts Geological Survey, in collaboration with the USGS, since 2002. The database and map represents the culmination of nearly 80 years of state-federal cooperation and research.
Assistant Professor Dr. Isaac Larsen has received a Fulbright Scholarship for Spring 2020! Dr.
The Daily Hampshire Gazette recently interviewed PhD student Shaina Rogstad and assistant Professor Dr. Ambarish Karmalkar on the IPCC's recent report on the impacts of global warming and how it will affect Western Massachusetts. Read more...
Department head and professor Dr. Julie Brigham-Grette was interviewed by Live Science on her role in the construction of the Yukon Geological Survey's new map of Beringia, ca. 18,000 years ago. Read more...
Dr. Mike Rawlins, associate director of the Climate Systems Research Center, was recently interviewed on WAMC Northeast Public Radio about 2018 being the wettest year on record for Massachusetts, in addition to increasingly rapid weather changes in New England due to climate change. Read more...
Recent research by Professor Dr. Rob DeConto is featured by National Geographic-- The article discusses this research in the light of studies pubished this month showing that retreat of of our ice caps may be slower than previously thought, though the situation is still dire... Read More...
Staple Isotope Laboratory manager and alum Dr. Jeff Salacup published a recent paper in AGU's Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology on using alkenones from phytoplankton to reconstruct high-resolution paleo- sea surface temperatures from coastal settings in Narragansett Bay, RI. Read more....
Professor Dr. Stephen Burns, post-doctoral researcher Dr.
“The world needs more hydrogeologists.”
The U-Mass International Programs office recently highlighted PhD student Marsha Allen and her goal of preventing water shortages on her native island of Tobago. 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...
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
Graduate students Raquel Bryant, Benjamin Keisling, Mariela Garcia Arredondo (ECO), and Nigel Golden (NECSC / ECO) were recently awarded a Campus Climate Improvement Grant from the Office of
We're proud to be presenting over 20 talks and posters this week at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Section of the Geological Society of America in Burlington, VT. Here's a list of of who's presenting and when:
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
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