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...
Michael A. Rawlins, associate director of the Climate System Research Center, says in an interview with the Daily Hampshire Gazette that research is inconclusive on whether climate change is leading to more tornadoes such as the one that hit Conway last weekend. But he does say warmer weather helps create conditions that make tornadoes possible.
Dr. Christine Hatch and Timothy Randhir (ECO) are both quoted in an article in the Springfield Republican about how snow storms in February could help reduce drought conditions in the region.
Alums of Dr. Michele Cooke and the UMass Geomechanics Lab are featured in a new video about the Southern California Earthquake Center.
A link to the video, and when the alums appear, can be seen here.
A paper by Brian Yellen, Jonathon Woodruff, and colleagues was recently accepted for publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.
Isaac Larsen's work on the ability of small floods to carve large canyons has been featured in this month's Earth Magazine, published by the American Geosciences Institute (AGI).
The article can be read here.
Raymond Bradley, distinguished professor in geosciences and director of the Climate System Research Center, was recently elected to the European Academy, Academia Europaea, joining 21 other U.S. members in its Earth and Cosmic Sciences section.
We're excited to announce a 1-year accelerated Master's in GIST, directed by our newest faculty member, Dr. Forrest J. Bowlick.
The application deadline is February 1st.
For more information on the program, see https://www.geo.umass.edu/1-year-masters-gist
New paper in Hydrological Processes by David Boutt & recent alum Lilly Corenthal about freshwater recharge to econmically important lithium-bearing aquifer in hyper-arid Salar de Atacama. Abstract at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hyp.10994/full
Find out how New England communities can become more resilient to river floods!Our three-year long University of Massachusetts RiverSmart Communities project announces the release of five target policy recommendations to help New England communities thrive despite river floods. These recommendations will make federal and state programs significantly more effective and helpful to New England towns and cities as they strive to become resilient to future river floods, with relatively limited cost or regulatory change.
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