Department of Earth Sciences
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences

Department News Archive

  • SEMINAR: Mineralogical Society of America Distinguished Lecturer- Dr. Craig Manning, UCLA, Monday, Feb 7 at 3:30 p.m., 110 PillsH: In Deep Water: New Insights into Geologic Fluids in the Deep Crust and Upper Mantle

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Gustavo Tolson, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Geología Regional, Thurs, Feb 3 at 3:30 p.m., 110 PillsH: Subduction Erosion of Southern North America during the Cenozoic

  • CONGRATULATIONS! to alumnus, Rajdeep Dasgupta (PhD 2006) on having been named the 2011 recipient of the Geochemical Society's F.W. Clarke Medal! Read more here.

  • CONGRATULATIONS! to Professor Larry Edwards on receiving the Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship from the National Academy of Science! Read more here.

  • UMN-Duluth, Geological Sciences Prof John Goodge recently returned from nearly two months on the ice in Antarctica. During that time, he wrote several blogs for theNew York Times, which you can read here. Dr. Goodge will be presenting a seminar in our department on Feb. 24.

  • The College of Science & Engineering wrote a nice piece on Dr. Larry Edwards having been named the next recipient of the US Nat'l Academy of Science's Arthur L. Day Prize: read press release here.

  • CONGRATULATIONS! to Dr. Chris Paola on having been named the 2011 recipient of the Lyell Medal from the Geological Soceity of London! List of the 2011 awardees can be found on the GSL website.

  • CONGRATULATIONS! to Dr. Ellery Frahm for having been elected the next President of the International Association of Obsidian Studies!

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Peter Moore, Iowa State Univ; Dept of Geol and Atmos Sci; Thurs, Jan 20 at 3:30 p.m. in 110 PillsH; The Geomorphic and Glacological Impact of Basal Debris in Glaciers: insights from below the ice.

  • PROSPECTIVE GRADUATE STUDENTS: please note that our graduate program is now called EARTH SCIENCES; look for this in the pull-down menu in ApplyYourself. Questions? email Sharon Kressler

  • The Fall 2010 Newsletter is in the mail! Thanks, Kathy!! If you can't wait for it to arrive in your mailbox, click the link below to view it in pdf format.

  • Congratulations to Kent Kirkby who has received a 2009-2010 Morse-Alumni Award! Read more here.

  • Weekly Seminar: Dr. Alison Olcott Marshall, Univ of Kansas; Thurs, Dec 9 at 3:30 p.m., 110 PillsH; The Oldest Life on Earth or Chemical Artifacts? A Reassessment of the Microfossils of the Apex Chert

  • Special Seminar: Dr. Tetsuya Komabayashi, Tokyo Inst. of Technolgy; Thurs, Dec 9at 10:10 a.m. in 121 Pillsbury Hall; Resistive-heated diamond anvil cell experiments: a probe of Earth's interior

  • Masters Thesis Defense of Marylee Murphy ; Wed, Dec 8 at 3:00 p.m., 209 Pillsbury Hall; Application of the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) to the Willow River Watershed, St. Croix County, Wisconsin

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Yongli Gao, East Tennesee State University, Dept of Geosciences; Thurs, Dec 2 at 3:30 p.m. in 110 Pillsbury Hall; Environmental Reconstruction of a Unique Tertiary Lacustrine System: Gray Fossil Site, northeastern Tennessee

  • PhD Thesis Defense of Elisa Fitz-Diaz; Tues, Nov 30 at 3:30 p.m., 110 Pillsbury Hall;Progressive Deformation, Fluid Flow and Water-rock Interaction in the Mexican Fold-Thrust Belt, Central Mexico

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Susan Kidwell, The University of Chicago, Department of Geophysics Sciences, Thur, Nov 18 at 3:30 pm in 110 PillsH: Quantifying the Quality of Ordinary Fossil Records

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Jessica Warren, Stanford University, will present two seminars: Thur,Nov 11 at 3:30 pm in 110 PillsH: Microstructural Controls on Plate Tectonics: Observations of Deformed Peridotites; and Fri, Nov 12 at 10:10 am in 121 PillsH:Measurement of Water in Peridotite Nominally Anhydrous Minerals

  • Ad hoc seminar: geology Ph.D. candidate, Greg Brick, will give a presentation on his book, Subterranean Twin Cities, on Thur, Nov 4 at 3:30 p.m. in 110 PillsH.

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