Department of Earth Sciences
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences

Department News Archive

  • Please join us for the Open House at Pillsbury Hall. Today, Monday, October 10 from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Richard Alley, Penn State Univ, Dept of Geosciences; Down to the Sea in Slips: Ice-sheet Collapse and Sea-level Rise in a Warming World; Thurs, Oct 6 at 3:30 p.m., 110 Pillsbury Hall

  • PhD Thesis Defense of Jessica Till; Experimental Studies on the Development and Evolution of Magnetic Fabrics During Deformation; Monday, Oct 3 at 1:30 p.m. in 209 PillsH

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Peter Kelemen, Columbia Univ, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,Thurs, Sept 29 at 3:30 p.m., 110 Pillsbury Hall; In-situ Mineral Carbonation (and hydration) in Peridotite for CO2 Capture and Storage (and Geodynamics) ; 
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    Fri, Sept 30 at 10:10 a.m., 105 PillsH, Buoyancy Instabilities in Subduction Zones, the Sediment Component in Arc Magmas, and Implications for Continental Evolution

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Shenghua Mei, Univ Minnesota, Dept Earth Sciences, Thurs, Sept 22 at 3:30 p.m., 110 Pillsbury Hall; Experimental Constraints on the Rheology of Mantle Rocks

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Mark Clementz, Univ Wyoming, Dept of Geology & Geophysics,Thurs, Sept 15 at 3:30 p.m., 110 Pillsbury Hall; From River Horses to Sea Cows: Revising the Evolutionary History of Sirenians through Geochemistry

  • Congratulations to Harvey Thorleifson, Director of the MGS, on having been elected a Fellow of GSA in 2011!

  • Congratulations to alumnus, Dr. Paul Kelso (MS 1990, PhD 1993) for receiving theMichigan Distinguished Professor of the Year Award! Read more here.

  • Geoclub activities begin this week: Welcome Cookout at Pillsbury Hall on Tues at 2 pm; Paint the Bridge on Thursday/Friday; and the first Club meeting on Friday at 12:15 in room 105 PillsH. For more information, contact the Geoclub officers at <umngeology AT gmail.com>.

  • SEMINAR: Prof. Peter Hudleston, Interim Dept Chair, UMN Earth Sciences, Thurs, Sept 8 at 3:30 p.m., 110 Pillsbury Hall; Welcome to the 2011-2012 Academic Year

  • PhD Thesis Defense of Xiuju Liu; Thur, Aug 18 at 2 p.m., 110 Pillsbury Hall; Late Quaternary Climate History on the Northeast Tibetan Plateau: Multi-proxy Investigation of Lake Qinghai Sediments, China

  • PhD Thesis Defense of Melissa Berke; Thur, Aug 18 at 10 a.m. in 110 Pillsbury Hall;Molecular and Isotopic Records of Climate Variability and Vegetation Response for Tropical East Africa during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene

  • Returning to campus fall semester? Please be especially careful when it comes to commuting to, from, and around campus. Construction plus traffic changes plus 50K more people equals a potential mess! Find updates at UMN Parking and Transportation and/or UMN's Central Corridor web page. MS Thesis Defense ofAhmad Malekpour Alamadrie; Tues, Aug 16 at 3 p.m, 110 Pillsbury Hall;Detachment Kinematics and Exhumation Processes in the Pioneer and North Cascades Metamorphic Complexes

  • Special seminar: Dr. Michael Mottl, Univ Hawaii, Origins of the Oceans, Thurs, July 28 at 2:00 p.m. in 110 PillsH.

  • PhD Thesis Defense of Andrew Luhmann ; Thurs, July 14 at 1:00 p.m., 110 Pillsbury Hall; Water Temperature as a Tracer in Karst Aquifers

  • PhD Thesis Defense of Peter Rose; Fri, July 8 at 1 p.m., 110 Pillsbury Hall;Paleoclimate and Mammal Paleoecology during the Paleocene of North America: insights from stable isotopes

  • PhD Thesis Defense of Jimmy Randolph ; Thurs, July 7 at 2 p.m., 110 Pillsbury Hall;Coupling geothermal energy capture with carbon dioxide sequestration in naturally permeable, porous geologic formations -- a novel approach for expanding and enhancing geothermal energy utilization -- and related fundamental topics regarding fluid and heat flow in porous and fractured geologic media

  • Congratulations to Marc Hirschmann, winner of the 2011 Norman L. Bowen Award, given by the VGP section of AGU for "outstanding contributions to volcanology, geochemistry or petrology." (This news is so hot-off-the-press that AGU has not yet even updated their website!)

  • PhD Thesis Defense of Brian Bagley; Tues, June 28 at 1 p.m., 110 Pillsbury Hall;Seismic Structure of the Mantle Beneath the Pacific Hemisphere

  • Monday, June 6 begins the department's 12th NSF-REU Summer Internship Program with 14 students from different institutions. Thanks to Program Director, Katsumi Matsumoto, for writing successful proposals!

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