Department of Earth Sciences
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences

Department News Archive

  • Nature Geoscience's 'News and Views' section features an article by Asst. Prof. Jake Bailey, read here. Nicely done, Jake.

  • UofMN's Institute on the Enviroment wrote a nice article about the important work thatProf. Martin Saar and his Ph.D. student Jimmy Randolph are doing to help create renewable energy while at the same time reducing CO2. Read here.

  • It is now official, beginning on July 1, 2011 Prof. Peter Hudleston will assume the position of Interim Department Chair, for the 2011-2012 academic year. Prof. Donna Whitney will take over as Dept Chair and Head of the N.H. Winchell School of Earth Sciences effective July 1, 2012. Congratulations, Donna!

  • Congratulations to PhD candidate Brooke White for receiving NOAA's National Sea Grant College Program Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship! Brooke starts her fellowship in February, 2012.

  • Congratulations to PhD student Drew Syverson for receiving an Outstanding Student Paper Award at the 2010 AGU Fall Meeting!

  • GSA is in Minneapolis this October! The Department is hosting an Open House for anyone and everyone who wants to stop by Pillsbury Hall. In addition, a dinner for alumni and friends will be held on Monday, Oct 10. See the link below for more information. Hope to see you then!

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Alexander Densmore, Durham Univ, U.K., Thurs, May 12 , 3:30 p.m., 110 PillsH: When the Shaking Stops: the Long-Term Effects of Large Earthquakes

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Larry Edwards , UofMN, Geo/Geophys, Thurs, May 5 , 3:30 p.m., 110 PillsH: Monsoons and Meltdowns

  • The Minnesota Geological Survey has created and released a new State Geologic Map of Minnesota! Quoting the MGS Director, Harvey Thorleifson, "This is something that happens only about once per decade, and this one is a giant leap forward. Mark Jirsaand co-authors did a superb job." Check it out.

  • CONGRATULATIONS TO LARRY EDWARDS for having been elected as a member of the NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES!! Larry brings the total of UofMN faculty who have received this prestigeous recognition to 33; click here to see the list of UofMN National Academy of Sciences Members. Read UofMN News article here. Congratulations, Larry!

  • Paul Morin's group, the Polar Geospatial Center, is expanding their work to the Arctic! The Associated Press has picked up the news release, here is the link to UofMNews, featuring a photo of recent alumnus Spencer Niebuhr in Antarctica. Congratulations to Paul and his hard working crew!

  • CONGRATULATIONS! to Prof. Sally G. Kohlstedt for having been selected as the UofMN's Ada Comstock Distinguished Women Scholar Award and Lecture for Fall 2011! The lecture is not until October 12 - put it on your calendar. Congrats, Sally!

  • Another summer internship to report: graduate student, Anna Lindquist, will be working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with Dr. Kim Knight in the Chemical Sciences Division. Anna says, "My research will be considered nuclear forensics, and I'll be mapping the elemental and phase distributions of nuclear fallout materials. The goal is to increase our understanding of the time, temperature, and oxidation conditions present at the formation of these materials."

  • One of Martin's graduate students, Joe Myre, has received a summer internship with supercomputer giant, Cray, Inc. in St. Paul, MN. Joe says, "During this internship I will be working with the performance group. My primary work will be conducting performance analysis of internal Cray software and systems. These include high performance scientific libraries, communications packages, compilers, and scientific test codes."

  • Larry Edwards makes the University's front page news - in honor of his becoming a member of the National Academy of Sciences!

  • CONGRATULATIONS to Martin Saar for his promotion to Associate Professor in our department! Well deserved, Martin!

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Stephen Parman, Brown Univ, Thurs, Apr 28, 3:30 p.m., 110 PillsH:When did the Continents Grow? -AND- Fri, Apr 29, 10:10 a.m., 121 PillsH:Experimental Measurements of Noble Gas Behavior at Mantle Pressures

  • SEMINAR: Consortium for Ocean Ledership Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Demain Saffer, Penn State, Thurs, Apr 21, 3:30 p.m., 110 PillsH: Pore Pressure and Stress at Subduction Plate Boundaries: Insights from Oean Drilling

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Tracy Twine, UMN, Dept Soil, Water, Climate, Thurs, Apr 14 at 3:30 p.m., 110 PillsH: The Biophysical Response to Elevated CO2 in Agroecosystemrs of the United States

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Karen Fischer, Brown Univ, Thurs, Apr 7 at 3:30 p.m., 110 PillsH:The Lithosphere-asthenosphere Boundary

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