Department of Earth Sciences
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences

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  • Geology and geophysics doctoral programs ranked highly in NRC assessment. Read more.

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Paul Wallace, Univ of Oregon will present two seminars: Thurs, Oct 28 at 3:30 p.m. in 110 PillsH: Volatile Recycling and Magma Generation in Young-slab Subduction Zones: Examples from central Mexico and the Oregon Cascades; and Fri,Oct 29 at 10:10 a.m. in 121 PillsH: High-Mg Andesites and the Role of Mantle Harzburgite in Arc Magmatism

  • Geophysics prof, Dr. Justin Revenaugh, is speaking at the Inst for Advanced Study, on Wed, Oct 27 at 4 p.m. in 125 Nolte: Exploration and Production of Oil in Deep Water

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Donna Blackman, Scripps Inst of Oceanography will present two seminars: Thursday, Oct 21 at 3:30 p.m., room 110 Pillsbury Hall: Oceanic Core Complex Structure & Evolution- insights from deep-sea drilling, geophysical surveys, and seafloor mapping at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 30°N; and Friday, October 22, 10:10 a.m. in 121 PillsH: Linked Models of Micro-structural Deformation of Peridotite and Flow of Upper Mantle in the Vicinity of Plate Boundaries

  • CONGRATULATIONS to our outstanding undergraduates for their dual success at the Student Organization Fair, as part of CSE's 75th Anniv celebration on Tues, Oct 19. They took 1st place for Outstanding Student Organization and 2nd place in the egg-drop contest. I understand that their egg landed without breaking but another egg, one decorated with glitter, won 1st place.

  • SEMINAR: Thursday, Oct 14 at 3:30 p.m., room 110 Pillsbury Hall: Dr. Benjamin Weiss , MIT, Dept of Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences, Evidence for an Ancient Lunar Dynamo

  • PhD Thesis Defense of Ellery Frahm, Dept of Anthropology (and our very own microprobe lab manager); Tues, Oct 12 at 1:00 p.m. in Hanson Hall, Room 1-111; The Bronze-Age Obsidian Industry at Tell Mozan (Ancient Urkesh), Syria: Redeveloping Electron Microprobe Analysis for 21st-Century Sourcing Research and the Implications for Obsidian Use and Exchange in the Northern Mesopotamia after the Neolithic

  • SEMINAR: Thursday, Oct 7 at 3:30 p.m., room 110 Pillsbury Hall: Dr. Martin Saar , UMN Dept of Geo/Geophys, The Fluid- and Thermodynamics of Combining CO2 Sequestration with Geothermal Energy Capture

  • SEMINAR: Thursday, Sept 21 at 3:30 p.m., room 110 Pillsbury Hall: Dr. Emi Ito, UMN Dept of Geo/Geophys, How Lakes See Climate

  • SEMINAR: Friday, Sept 17 at 1:30 p.m., room 110 Pillsbury Hall: Prof. Wally Broecker, Lamont-Doherty, How has the ocean's Mg/Ca evolved over the past 180 million years?

  • SEMINAR: Thursday, Sept 16 at 3:30 p.m., room 110 Pillsbury Hall: Dr. Sergei Katsev, LLO, The Wandering Redox Boundary in Lake Superior Sediments: does it reflect a recent productivity change?

  • We welcome the 14 new graduate students who are joining the program this fall! photo

  • MS Defense of Cale Anger, Wednesday, Sept 8 at 3:00 p.m. in room 209 Pillsbury Hall: Project 1: Laboratory and Numerical Modeling of Bench Scale Dye Tracer Breakthrough Curves; Project 2: Monitoring Hydrogeologic Response to Regional Aggregate Mining and Site Development: A Preliminary Groundwater Report for UMore Park, Minnesota

  • PhD Thesis Defense of Daniel King, Tuesday, Sept 7 at 3:30 p.m. in room 110 Pillsbury Hall: Stress-driven Melt Segregation and Reactive Melt Infiltration in Partially Molten Rocks Deformed in Torsion with Applications to Melt Extraction from Earth’s Mantle

  • PhD Thesis Defense of Benjamin Hardt, Friday, Sept 3 at 2:30 p.m, room 110 Pillsbury Hall: Changes in Seasonal Precipitation of East Central North America with Connections to Global Climate

  • In September, geophysics professor, David Yuen, took part in an international meeting in Kiev, Ukraine: Geodynamical Phenomena: From Observations and Experiments to Theory and Modelling.

  • Congratulations to Dr. Benjamin Hardt, Dr. Daniel King and Cale Anger for successfully completing thier advanced degrees!

  • The department's graduate and undergraduate programs have undergone changes:Earth Science graduate program ... Earth Sciences undergraduate programs

  • Dr. Donna Whitney was recently elected the second-vice chair of the Structure & Tectonics Division of the Geological Society of America.

  • Click here for .pdf version of the review in Science of Dr. Sally Gregory Kohstedt's book , Teaching Children Science: Hands-On Nature Study in North America, 1890-1930

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