The department is offering several courses this summer through UMass University Without Walls. All courses will be taught remote, and can be taken by students and professionals. Check out the courses below:
Dr.’s Christine Hatch and Brian Yellen will be presenting on how communities can connect with and protect their local rivers for the Connecticut River Conservancy’s Livestream: River Connections for Healthy C
The department has recently established a fund in memory of Dr Sheila Seaman, who died in 2019 after a valiant battle with cancer. A much beloved teacher, a creative researcher, and an endearing colleague, Sheila embodied the best attributes of a geoscientist and a human
PhD student Shaina Sadai and Professor Mark Leckie are recipients of the University's 2021
Recent research on soil loss in the Corn Belt by graduate student Evan Thaler and professors Isaac Larsen and Qian Yu has been highlighted by Smithsonian Magazine.
Several students and faculty will be participating in the 2021 (virtual) annual meeting of the American Assocation of Geographers. See below for a schedule of who is presenting when:
In a new paper in Earth and Planetary Science Letters PhD student Anna Ruth Halberstadt, Dr Rob DeConto, former postdocs E
PhD student Laura Fattaruso recently published a piece on temblor about recent research that looks into why the
The hydrogeology research group has published a number of articles in the past few weeks on their research in the Salar De Atacama, Island of Tobago, and Massachusetts. This stellar cast of authors includes Professor David Bout
![Linemen work to restore power in Texas during winter storm, February 2021. Photo by Jonathan Cutrer, via Flickr [CC BY-NC 2.0]](https://www.geo.umass.edu/sites/default/files/styles/thumb-square/public/field/image/news/texas-1-1068x580.jpg?itok=Mc3N8Okc)
Recent alum Ian Hillenbrand, professors Mike Williams and Haiying Gao, along with PhD student
U-Mass Geosciences has a strong showing at the (virtual) annual meeting of the Northeastern Section of the Geological Society of America, March 14th and 15th 2021. If you're attending #NEGSA2021 this year don't miss out!
Graduate student Evan Thaler, with professors Isaac Larsen and Qian Yu, recently published a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that documents complete carbon-rich topsoil loss in one-third of the Corn Belt in the Midwest – nearly 30 milli
The American Geosciences Institute just published their report of Geoscience graduate employment trends as of December 2020: "91% of geoscience graduates who earned their degree between
Dr's Brian Yellen, John Woodruff, and collaborators at WHOI recently published a paper in Estuaries and Coasts documenting their findings of much-lower-than-expected sediment levels behind dams in the Lower Huds
Several graduate students submitted excellent proposals to the NSF Graduate Student Research Fellowship program this year. Current graduate student Kelly McKeon and incoming graduate student Sam McComb were awarded fellowships for their proposals.
The Geomechanics Group has recently published two new papers in Geosphere:
"Urban forests have long been forgotten by ecosystem scientists and biogeochemists..." Dr Justin Richardson and co-authors recently published a paper in Science of the Total Environment
![[Image: Nyeema Harris of the University of Michigan gives a BRiDGE2Impacts presentation entitled “The Fierce Urgency of Now to Redefine Impact in Academia” at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in October 2018. Credit: Benjamin Keisling]](https://www.geo.umass.edu/sites/default/files/styles/thumb-square/public/field/image/news/EVL80qxXYAEhTM3.jpg?itok=R13mnacC)
UMass Amherst graduate students, including Geosciences alum Dr Benjamin Keisling and PhD Student Raquel Bryant, published a piece in the American Geophysical Un
Dr Christine Hatch recently contributed to the regular Earth Matters column in the Daily Ha
A new paper in Earth-Science Reviews by Dr.
PhD student Laura Fattaruso recently published a piece in temblor on alum Dr. Heather Savage's and Dr.
A new episode of PhD student Laura Fattaruso's podcast, Labtalk with Laura, talks with alumni of the STEMSEAS pro
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