Department of Earth Sciences
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences

Department News Archive

  • 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.

  • 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

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