Department of Earth Sciences
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences

Department News Archive

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • 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!

  • 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!

  • 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

  • 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!

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