Department of Earth Sciences
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences

Department News Archive

  • We welcome the 14 new graduate students who are joining the program this fall! photo

  • MS Defense of Cale Anger, Wednesday, Sept 8 at 3:00 p.m. in room 209 Pillsbury Hall: Project 1: Laboratory and Numerical Modeling of Bench Scale Dye Tracer Breakthrough Curves; Project 2: Monitoring Hydrogeologic Response to Regional Aggregate Mining and Site Development: A Preliminary Groundwater Report for UMore Park, Minnesota

  • PhD Thesis Defense of Daniel King, Tuesday, Sept 7 at 3:30 p.m. in room 110 Pillsbury Hall: Stress-driven Melt Segregation and Reactive Melt Infiltration in Partially Molten Rocks Deformed in Torsion with Applications to Melt Extraction from Earth’s Mantle

  • PhD Thesis Defense of Benjamin Hardt, Friday, Sept 3 at 2:30 p.m, room 110 Pillsbury Hall: Changes in Seasonal Precipitation of East Central North America with Connections to Global Climate

  • Click here for .pdf version of the review in Science of Dr. Sally Gregory Kohstedt's book , Teaching Children Science: Hands-On Nature Study in North America, 1890-1930

  • Microprobe Lab Manager, Ellery Frahm, won second place in the the 'Abstract Images' category of GSA's Annual Photography Contest. See photo here. Congrats!

  • In September, geophysics professor, David Yuen, took part in an international meeting in Kiev, Ukraine: Geodynamical Phenomena: From Observations and Experiments to Theory and Modelling.

  • Congratulations to Dr. Benjamin Hardt, Dr. Daniel King and Cale Anger for successfully completing thier advanced degrees!

  • The department's graduate and undergraduate programs have undergone changes:Earth Science graduate program ... Earth Sciences undergraduate programs

  • Dr. Donna Whitney was recently elected the second-vice chair of the Structure & Tectonics Division of the Geological Society of America.

  • 19 current and former members of our department participated in a Gordon Research Conference on Rock Deformation in New Hampshire in August. photo

  • Justin Revenaugh on the future of deep-sea drilling: Details here.

  • Summer PhD defenses: Anna Henderson (advisors: Ito, Shuman), Travis Tenner (advisor: Hirschmann), Sam Matson (advisor: David Fox)

  • Prof. David Yuen has been busy in China this summer: 1) he helped to organize an international conference on Dynamics of Continental Interiors from Multiple Scales

    in Wuhan , China in middle of May (photo); and 2) and he helped to organize an international workshop on GPU solutions to multiple-scale problems in Science and Engineering in Harbin, Manchuria, China in July

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Michael Foote, Univ of Chicago, Thurs, Jan 27 at 3:30 p.m., 110 PillsH: The Evolution of Geographic Range within Species and Genera; and Fri, Jan 28 at 10:10 a.m., 121 PillsH: Evolutionary Dynamics of Genus Size-frequency Distribution

  • Olaf Pfannkuch has retired!

  • 2010 Donath Award ("top rising senior") to Susanna Webb

  • 2010 Aldrich Award ("top graduating senior") to Ben Frieman

  • Jim Stout gives life to rocks:

    http://www1.umn.edu/news/features/2009/UR_CONTENT_139912.html

  • Distinguished McKnight Univ Prof Larry Edwards' work on paleoclimatic change in China is featured on the UMNews web site.

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