Ancient Sunken Seafloor Reveals Earth’s Deep Secrets
Associate Professor Nicholas Schmerr Helped Develop Lunar Instrument Chosen for Upcoming NASA Artemis Mission
UMD Geology Ph.D. Student Sourabh Shubham Helps Discover Giant Volcano on Mars
The Moon is Shrinking, Causing Landslides and Instability in Lunar South Pole
A History Hidden From View: Geology Students Search for Early Gravesite of Historic African American Church
Faculty and Student Awards
- Graduate Student Zach Vig was awarded Best Student Talk at the 2024 NASA Exploration Science Forum. His talk was titled Visible Near-Infrared Spectral Evidence for Olivine in the Gruithuisen Domes. Watch his talk here.
- Graduate Student Tytrice Faison received an Honorable Mention for her presentation at the campus-wide Three-Minute Thesis competition. Her talk was titled "UMD: Unravel Meteoritic Dating".
- Graduate Student Elaine Jaross been selected to receive an Outstanding Student Presentation Award for her presentation at the 2023 annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
- Graduate Student Benjamin Moyer has been selected to receive a Computational Science Graduate Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Energy. read more...
Upcoming Events
Colloquium - Thomas Holtz from University of Maryland
Friday, October 18, 2024
11:00 am
ESJ 0215
New Advances in Tyrannosaur Functional Morphology, Paleoecology, Ontogeny, and Taxonomy
Colloquium - Yuanzhi Tang from Georgia Institute of Technology
Friday, October 25, 2024
11:00 am
ESJ 0215
A geochemist’s approach for critical mineral resource recovery
Colloquium - Elizabeth Cottrell from Smithsonian Museum of Natural History/Department of Mineral Sciences
Friday, November 1, 2024
11:00 am
ESJ 0215
TBD