Department of Earth Sciences
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences

Department News Archive

  • Students: good luck on your finals!

  • Dept seminars: MSA Dist Lecturer, Dr. Ethan Baxter, Boston Univ, Dept of Earth Sci,Making a Long Story Short: Evidence for Brief Pulses of Metamorphiscs on WED, May 2 at 3:35 p.m, 110 PillsH -AND- a more research-focused talk on THURS, May 3 at 10:10 am in 121 PillsH.

  • Dept seminars: Dr. Joseph Kirschvink, CalTech, Dept of Geological & Planetary Sciences, Earth's First Snowball and the Rise of Atmospheric Oxygen on Thurs, Apr 26 at 3:35 p.m, 110 PillsH -AND- True Polar Wander and Life on Fri, Apr 27 at 10:10 am in 121 PillsH

  • Dept Seminar: Dr. Frank Spear, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Dept of Earth & Environmental Sciences; Thirty Years of P-T-t Paths: What We've Learned about Orogenesis; Thurs, Apr 12 at 3:35 p.m., 110 PillsH

  • Congratulations to Earth Science's Martin Saar & Jimmy Randolph (PhD '11), and Mechanical Engineering prof Thomas Kuehn, for the launch of the UofMN startup company, Heat Mining Company, LCC, based on their invention- CO2 Plume GeothermalTM technology!! Read more on the UofMN News page.

  • Congratulations to Michelle LaRue, of the Polar Geospatial Center, and co-authors on this unprecedented research! Emperor Penguin population estimates in a new satellite census, read more at National Geographic and/or at the UofMN News page.

  • Special seminar: AAPG Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Dale A. Leckie, Nexen, Inc., Alberta, Canada; A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Geology of the Athabasca Oil Sands – 2nd Largest Hydrocarbon Resource on Earth, Monday, Apr 9at 3:35 p.m. in 110 PillsH

  • Department seminar: Dr. Shuhei Ono, MIT, Dept of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute; Source Reaction for Archean Sulfur Mass-Independent Isotope Fractionation and the Evolution of Early Earth's Atmosphere on Thurs, Apr 5 at 3:35 pm in 110 PillsH -AND- Fri, Apr 6, 10:10 a.m., 121 PillsH: Multiple Sulfur Isotope Signatures of Microbial Sulfate Reduction, New Insights into the End Proterozoic Oxidation and the Deep Biosphere

  • Department seminar: Dr. Tom Johnson, Univ Minnesota-Duluth, Dept of Geological Sciences, A 1.2 Million-Year Record of Temperature and Rainfall from the East African Tropics ; Thurs, March 29 at 3:35 p.m., 110 PillsH

  • Extra seminar, co-sponsored with the Dept of History of Science and Technology: Dr. Brett Walker, Montana State Univ , Dept of History, Philosophy and Religion Studies;Toxic Archipelago: The Hybrid Causes of Industrial Disease in Japan; Tues, March 27 at 3:35 p.m., 110 PillsH

  • Department seminar: Dr. Raymond Pierrehumbert, Univ of Chicago, Dept of Geophysical Sciences; Cumulative Carbon & Anthropocene Climate Protection: Do Methane & Black Carbon Really Matter?; Thurs, March 22 at 3:35 p.m., 110 PillsH

  • Department Seminars: Dr. David Rowley, Univ Chicago, Dept of Geophysical Sci;Mantle Dynamic Contributions to Global Plate Motions: New Insights from the East Pacific Rise, Thur, March 8 at 3:35 pm, 110 PillsH; -AND- Paleoaltimetry of Tibet: from Sea Level Before to Plateau After Collision, Fri, Mar 9, at 10:10 a.m., 121 PillsH

  • Department Seminar: Dr. Nicholas Swanson-Hysell, Univ of MN, Institute for Rock Magnetism; Causes and Consequences of the First Neoproterozoic Ice Age, Thurs, March 1, 3:30 p.m., room 110 PillsH

  • Department Seminar: Dr. Michael Willliams, Univ of Massachusetts, Dept of Geosciences, The Nature and Evolution of the Deep Crust: New tools and new interpretations from North America's largest sample of continental lower crust, Athabasca Granulite Terrane, Canada, Thurs, Feb 23 at 3:35 p.m., room 110 PillsH (faculty host: C. Teyssier)

  • Special Seminar: Dr. Philippe Machetel, Laboratorie Geosciences Montpellier,Water Temperature as Conservative Tracer for Fluviokarst Studies an example : " Cents Fonts Resurgence ", in Herault, France; Wed, Feb 22 at 4:00 p.m., room 105 PillsH (faculty host: D. Yuen)

  • Special Seminar: Dr. John Higgins, Princeton Univ, Dept of Geosciences, Mg Isotopic Insights into Cenozoic Seawater Chemistry and Climate, Wed, Feb 22 at 10:10 a.m., room 121 PillsH (faculty host: W.E. Seyfried, Jr.)

  • Paul Morin's Polar Geospatial Center is doing incredible work mapping the polar regions. Please read the featured article in CSE's Inventing Tomorrow Magazine about the group's work. And congratulations to dept alumnus Spencer Niebuhr for scoring the cover photo!

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Linda Ivany, Syracuse University, Dept of Earth Sciences will present two seminars: Thurs, Feb 9 at 3:35 pm, 110 PillsH: Does Climate Matter? 30 Million Years of Ecology and Evolution on the US Gulf Coast - AND- Fri, Feb 10 at 10:10 a.m., 121 PillsH: Permian Bivalves, High-Latitude Climate, and the Oxygen Isotopic Evolution of Phanerozoic Seawater

  • CONGRATULATIONS to Josh Feinberg for receiving a University McKnight Land-Grant Professorship! The goal of the program is to advance the careers of our most promising junior faculty at a critical point in their professional lives. Well done, Josh!

  • CONGRATULATIONS to Martin Saar whose article Geothermal heat as a tracer of large-scale groundwater flow and as a means to determine permeability fields was one of five out of 150 articles to have been selected Editor's Choice for 2011 by the Hydrogeology Journal Editors. Nicely done, Martin!

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