Sarah Penniston-Dorland Named Chair of UMD’s Department of Geological, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences

Sarah Penniston-Dorland Named Chair of UMD’s Department of Geological, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences

Congratulations to our 2025-2026 Graduates!

Congratulations to our 2025-2026 Graduates!

Volcanic Rocks Reveal Earth’s Earliest Chemical Secrets

Volcanic Rocks Reveal Earth’s Earliest Chemical Secrets

UMD Department of Geology Announces New Name

UMD Department of Geology Announces New Name

Provost's citation and Michael Brown's remarks at Convocation 2025

Provost's citation and Michael Brown's remarks at Convocation 2025

Faculty and Student Awards

Sujay Kaushal

Professor Sujay Kaushal has been selected as a fellow of the International Association of Geochemistry for his significant contributions to the field of geochemistry.

Other news...
  • Graduate Student Elizabeth Huang recently competed in the final round of the Graduate School's 3 Minute Thesis competition. Click to watch her presentation. read more...
  • James Farquhar Named 2025 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science read more...
  • Jay Kaufman is the recipient of the 2026 the Francis J. Pettijohn Medal for Sedimentology, awarded by the Society for Sedimentary Geology.
  • Dr. Sujay Kaushal was named the Goldschmidt Conference F. Earl Ingersol Lecturer for the upcoming meeting in July in Montreal.

Upcoming Events

Mikayla Williams Thesis Defense

Thursday, July 9, 2026

11:00 am EDT

ESJ 1224

Using Isotopologues to Investigate Methane Dynamics in Well Waters and Wetlands

Special Seminar: Timm John from Freie Universität Berlin

Friday, July 10, 2026

11:00 am EDT

CHM 0215

Dehydration of subducting plates: slow structures, fluxes, and timescales

Kyle Kim Dissertation Defense

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

9:00 am EDT

PLS 1140

Recent Graduate and Undergraduate Student Publications