Department of Earth Sciences
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences

Department News Archive

  • Seminar: Dr. Thorsten Becker, Univ Southern California, Dept Earth Sciences, Deep Mantle Root of Mountain Belts on Thursday, Sept 13 at 3:30 p.m., 110 PillsH -AND- Fault Asperity Diagnostics in Laboratory Stick-Slip on Friday, Sept 14 at11:15 a.m., 121 PillsH

  • Welcome Back, Everyone!! We hope you all have an exceptional year.

  • Seminar: Prof. Donna Whitney, Head, N.H. Winchell School of Earth Sciences,Welcome to the 2012-2013 Academic Year, Thurs, Sept 6 at 3:30 p.m., 110 PillsH

  • In Memoriam
    Professor Emeritus Glenn B. Morey passed away Aug. 2. GB or Morey, as he was called by family and friends, was born in Duluth, MN Oct. 17, 1935. He was preceded in death by his parents and infant daughter, Brenda. He is survived by loving wife Judy, daughter Pam, son Daryl and wife Kelli, and five grandchildren, Alex, Randy, Charlie, Erik, and Autumn.
    Professor Morey retired as the associate director and chief geologist of the Minnesota Geological Survey in 2001. He remained active in retirement and was working on a biography of Newton Horace Winchell, first director of the Minnesota Geological Survey, and a history of the Survey. Morey had a distinguished 50-year career in geology as a professor in the Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, associate director, and chief geologist. He played a pivotal role in enabling the Minnesota Geological Survey to fulfill its mission. In 1986, Morey received the Goldich Medal of the Institute of Lake Superior Geology in recognition of his numerous contributions in geology which included field studies, integration of the geology of Minnesota into the new paradigm of plate tectonics, presentations at regional, national, and international meetings, and in the publications of the Minnesota Geological Survey and national and international professional journals. He was a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and recognized authority on the geology of Precambrian Iron Formations.

  • Congratulations to research associate Audrey Bouvier winner of the 2012 Nier Prize of the Meteorological Society. The Nier Prize recognizes outstanding research in meteoritics and closely allied fields by young scientists.Congratulations to staff members, Kathy Ohler, Mark Griffith, and Sharon Kressler for each recieving an Outstanding Service Award from the departmen

  • PhD Thesis Defense of Raphael Gottardi; Thermomechanics and Hydrology of a Detachment Shear Zone; Thurs, July 5 at 2:00 p.m. in 110 Pillsbury Hall.

  • Mark your calendars -- CSE Distinguished Professor of Earth Sciences, Chris Paola, will be presenting the CSE Public Lecture on Wed, June 20, 7 p.m. in 150 Physics Building: The Low Life of River Deltas: How Mud Can Save (part of) the World. Read more and register (the lecture is free and open to the public but registration is needed for planning).

  • Congratulations to Beverly Flood in the Geobiology Group for having been awarded an NSF Ocean Sciences Postodoctoral Fellowship!

  • Congratulations! to Paul Morin, Director of the U's PGC, for having been appointed "the US representative to SCAGI by the Polar Research Board at the National Academies. SCAGI is the geospatial committee within the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR) that is the managing body of Antarctica under the Antarctic Treaty. "

  • Calvin Alexander talks with an MPR reporter: "Meteorites are valuable but hard to find in Minnesota" - read or listen here.

  • Seminar: Annette von der Handt , Albert Ludwigs Univ, Freiburg, Germany; Dept of Mineralogy & Geochemistry, Thurs, May 24 at 3:30 p.m., 105 PillsH; Architecture of the Lower Crust at Atlantis Massif (Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 30°N): Implications for Crustal Accretion at Slow-Spreading Ridges

  • PhD Defense of Stefanie Day, Friday, May 18 at 10 a.m., 110 PillsH;Anthropogenically Intensified Erosion in Incising River Systems

  • Congratulations to recently defended, Lars Hansen, for having been awarded the 2011 Outstanding Student Paper Award from the fall AGU meeting!

  • Congratulations to former Microprobe Lab Manager, Ellery Frahm, for having been designated the winner of the University of Minnesota Graduate School's 'Best Dissertation Award' in the Social and Behavioral Sciences and Education in 2012!

  • Seminar: Travis Tenner, Univ Wisconsin, Dept of Geosciences, Tues, May 15 at 4 p.m., 105 PillsH; Oxygen Isotope Ratios of Chondrite Components: Insights into the Evolution of the Early Solar System

  • MS Defense of Evan Finnes, Tues, May 15 at 2 p.m., 110 PillsH; A Rock and Paleomagnetic Characterization of the the Duluth Complex Layered Series Intrusions Associated with the Nokomis Deposit in NE Minnesota

  • PhD Defense of Robert Tipping (WRS), Tues, May 15 at 10 a.m., 110 PillsH;Characterizing Groundwater Flow in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area, Minnesota: A Chemical and Hydrostratigraphic Approach

  • LacCore scientist and dept alumnus, Ryan O'Grady (BS 2008), plays a key role in a drilling project to explore past climate change on Clear Lake, CA. Read the story and view the video here.

  • Special seminar: Pavel Izbekov, Univ of Alaska, Geophysical Inst; Compositional and Textural Stratigraphy of Plagioclases: Implications for Magma Processes at Active Volcanoes, Thurs, May 10 at 3:30 pm in room 105 PillsH

  • PhD Thesis Defense of Lars Hansen, Evolution of the Viscosity of Earth's Upper Mantle: Grain-Boundary Sliding and the Role of Microstructure in Olivine Deformation,Friday, May 4, 2:00 pm, 110 PillsH.

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