Researchers Solve Mystery of 'Dinky' Dinosaur’s Unusually Long Stride
2024 Department of Geology
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
Faculty and Student Awards
Professor Sarah Penniston-Dorland has been elected president of the Mineralogical Society of America
- Alan Jay Kaufman has been named a 2024 Distinguished University Professor read more...
- 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.
Upcoming Events
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
James Bader Dissertation Defense
Monday, November 4, 2024
1:00 pm
SQH 1119
Quantification of melt distribution, melt connectivity, and anisotropic permeability of deformed partially molten rocks using x-ray microtomography