Department of Earth Sciences
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences

Department News Archive

  • 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!

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Benjamin Passey, Johns Hopkins Univ, Dept of Earth & Planetary Sciences with present two seminars: Thurs, Feb 2 at 3:35 pm, 110 PillsH: Clumped Isotope Thermometry of Soil Carbonates and Application to the Neogene Monsoon Evolution in Northern China - AND- Fri, Feb 3 at 10:10 a.m., 121 PillsH: Solid-state Reordering of C-O Bonds in Calcite, and Implications for Clumped-Isotope Thermometry of the Shallow Crust and Paleoclimate Archives

  • SEMINAR: Thursday, January 26 at 3:35 p.m., 110 Pillsbury Hall: Dr. Hersh Gilbert, Purdue Univ, Dept of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Lithospheric Foundering in the Sierra Nevada

  • SEMINAR: Thursday, January 19 at 3:35 p.m., 110 Pillsbury Hall: Dr. Amy Myrbo, Univ Minnesota, Limnological Research Center, Carbon-Oxygen Isotopic Covariance and Phasing in an Annually-Resolved 20th-Century Urban Lake Record of Anthropogenic Geochemical Perturbations

  • Due to construction in Pillsbury Hall on Thurs and Fri, Jan 12 & 13 - the building will be closed to the public. Power to the building will be intermittent therefore communication with the department will be sporadic.

  • Spring 2012 classes begin on Tuesday, January 17.

  • PhD Thesis Defense of Ioan Lascu, Thur, Dec 15 at 10 a.m., 110 Pillsbury Hall,Quantification of Magnetic Components in Sediments with Applications in Paleoenvironmental Studies

  • MS Thesis Defense of Chiji Ochiagha, Wed, Dec 14 at 2:30 p.m., 121 Pillsbury Hall;Ecological Biogeography of African Mammals in Relations to Climate and Topography

  • Dr. Emi Ito has been working on a collaborative project on the Dead Sea. Read these recent news reports from the BBC, CBS, and National Geographic. Kudos to Emi and her colleagues!

  • Seminar: Dr. John Valley, Univ Wisc-Madison, Dept of Geosciences; Thurs, Dec 1 at 3:30 p.m. in 110 PillsH: Zircons from Hell?; and Fri, Dec 2 at 10:10 a.m. in 105 PillsH:Quartz Cements and Basin Evolution: Illinois Basin and Wisconsin Arch

  • Fall seminar series has ended. No departmental seminars scheduled until January 19, 2012.

  • Defense of Sara Morón, Tues, Nov 29, 3:30 p.m., 121 PillsH; Paleosol Carbon Isotope Stratigraphy, Major Oxides, and Rock Magnetic Record of Climate Change across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary in the Bogota Basin, Colombia

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