Department of Earth Sciences
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences

Department News Archive

  • Seminar:  Dr. Shanan Peters, Univ Wisconsin-Madision, Dept of Geosciences; Phanerozoic Earth System Evolution: a View from the Upper Crust; Thurs, March 14 at 3:30 p.m., 110 PillsH

  • Seminar: Dr. Seth Stein, Northwestern Univ, Dept of Earth & Planetary Sci; Why Earthquake Hazards Maps often fail, and what to do about it; Thurs, March 7 at 3:30 p.m. in 110 PillsH

  • Congratulations to UMGS (aka Geoclub) president, Alexis Iverson, and her crew for writing a successful proposal and securing $3K in funding from the CSE Dean's office to put toward the spring field trip to the SW U.S.!!  Nice job!

  • Seminar: Dr. Juergen Schieber, Indiana Univ, Dept of Geol Sci; The Mars Science Lab Landing and Recent Geological Investigations on Thurs, Feb 28 at 3:30 p.m., 110 PillsH; -AND- An Overview of Experimental Mudstone Sedimentology - Results of Experiments and Applications to the Rock Record on Fri, March 1 at 10:10 p.m., 121 PillsH

  • POSTPONED UNTIL FUTURE NOTICE:  PhD Thesis Defense of Ted Fuller; Field, Experimental and Numerical Investigations into the Mechanisms and Drivers of Lateral Erosion in Bedrock Rivers; Tues, Feb 26, 10:00 a.m., 105 PillsH; Thesis advisors:  Chris Paola and Karen Gran.

  • Congratulations to grad student, Antoinette Abeyta, for receiving an Outstanding Student Paper Award from the Fall 2012 AGU Meeting!!  Well done!

  • MGS Chief Geologist, Tony Runkel, talks with TPT's Almanac at the Capital about the value of Minnesota's sand with regards to the hot topic of 'fracking'. View episode here.

  • Congratulations to grad student, Chris Spencer, for having been awarded an NSF Summer Fellowship to work in Beijing at a software company as part of his doctoral research on cyber-infrastructure!

  • Seminar: Dr. Richard Ketcham, Univ Texas-Austin; Dept Geological Sciences will present two seminars: 1) Petrography in 3D: using CT to Aid and Abet Geologic Intuition on Thurs, Feb 21 at 3:30 p.m. in 110 PillsH; and 2) New in Thermochronology: Better Tools for Basin Analysis, and Some Percolating Thoughts on Radiation Damage on Fri, Feb 22 at 10:10 a.m. in 121 PillsH

  • Seminar: Dr. Nathaniel Warner, Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment; Environmental Impacts of Shale Gas Development and Hydraulic Fracturing; Tues, Feb 12 at 3:30 p.m, 110 PillH

  • Seminar: Dr. Gene-Hua Ng, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park; A Shrub Grows in the Mojave: What We Can Learn from Integrating Ecohydrological Models and Data; Thurs, Feb 14 at 3:30 p.m., 110 PillsH

  • No dept seminar the week of Feb 4-8.

  • ESci grad student, Laura Vietti, will present a talk at the archaeology dept's Brown Bag seminar on Fri, Feb 8 at 12:15 p.m. in 389 HHH; Quantifying Bone Weathering Stages Using Ra, a Surface Roughness Parameter Measured from 3D Data + A Note on Microbial Bioerosion

  • SEMINAR: Dr. David Vinson, Univ of Arizona, Dept of Hydrology & Water Resources; Water-rock Interaction and Environmental Conditions in Sandstone Aquifers: Insights from Radium and Strontium Isotopes; TUES, Jan 29 at 3:30 p.m., 110 PillsH

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Jessica Meyer, University of Guelph, School of Environmental Sciences; Characterizing Bedrock Groundwater Systems for Improved Representation of Flow and Contaminant Behavior; THURS, Jan 31 at 3:30 p.m., 110 PillsH

  • CONGRATULATIONS to Jake Bailey for having been awarded a UofMN McKnight Land-Grant Professorship!! 

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Corinne Wong, Univ Texas-Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences; Laying the Foundation to Assess Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources; Thurs, Jan 24 at 3:30 pm in 110 PillsH.

  • Prof. Larry Edwards' research is featured in Smithsonian Magazine. Congrats, Larry!  Read more here.

  • In Memorium - Emeritus Professor Dr. Varanasi Rama Murthy.  Please read more here.

  • Seminar: Dr. Mac Cathles; Univ of Chicago, Dept of Geophysical Sci; Ice Sheet Surface Roughness Evolution: an Overlooked Control on Surface Albedo on Tuesday, Dec 11 at 3:30 p.m., 110 PillsH.

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