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Andrea Mundl-Petermeier, UMd Postdoctoral Associate from 2015-2018, has been named the recipient of the 2022 Hisashi Kuno Award of the VGP Section of the American Geophysical Union

The research of Professor Sujay Kaushal and his group documenting the increasing level of salt in fresh water sources in the region was recently highlighted in an article in the Washington Post. Click to read the article.

Congratulations to graduate student Casey Braccia who was the recipient of a 2022 NASA Exploration Science Forum Student Poster Award!

Congratulations to former UMd PhD student and postdoc Jingao Liu who was recently presented the Shen-su Sun Award at the 2022 Goldschmidt Conference in Honolulu.

Congratulations to Aisha Khatib who was selected as the winner of the Stephen E. Dwornik Planetary Geoscience Honorable Mention Graduate Poster Presentation Award at the 53rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.

Upcoming Events

October 3, 2022 at 4:30pm

Colloquium - Sue Brantley from Penn State University (ESJ 0224)

October 5, 2022 at 12:00pm

Lunchtime Seminar - Prof. Sarah Mazza from Smith College (Virtual)

October 6, 2022 at 6:00pm

George and Rosalind Helz Distinguished Lecture in Geology - Susan L. Brantley, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute and Department of Geosciences, Penn State University (ESJ 0202)

Recent Graduate and Undergraduate Student Publications

Sandy Herho and Firdaus. (2022) Time-series analysis and statistical forecasting of daily rainfall in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. International Journal of Data Science. 3(1) 25-32.

Sandy Herho et al. (2022) On the Statistical Learning Analysis of Rain Gauge Data over the Natuna Islands. Indonesian Journal of Statistics and Its Applications. 6(2) 347–357.

William Hoover et al. (2022) Episodic fluid flow in an eclogite-facies shear zone: Insights from Li isotope zoning in garnet. Geology. 50 (6) 746-750.

Austin Gion et al. (2022) Characterizaiton of biotite and amphibole compositions in granites. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology . 177 43.

Kelsey Wood, Joseph Galella et al. (2022) Tree trade-offs in stream restoration: impacts on riparian groundwater quality. Urban Ecosystems.

Kayleigh Harvey et al. (2021) A Mélange of Subduction Ages: Constraints on the Timescale of Shear Zone Development and Underplating at the Subduction Interface, Catalina Schist (CA, USA). Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 22(9)

Sandy Herho et al. (2021) Does ENSO Significantly Affect Rice Production In Indonesia? A Preliminary Study Using Computational Time-Series Approach. International Journal of Data Science. 2(2) 69-76.

William Hoover, Austin Gion et al. (2021) A method for SIMS analysis of lithium isotopes in garnet: The utility of glass reference materials. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research. 45(3) 477-499.

Gion et al. (2021) Experimental constraints on the formation of pegmatite-forming melts by anatexis of amphibolite: A case study from Evje-Iveland, Norway. Lithos. 3980399 106342.

Lori Willhite et al. (2021) CORALS: A Laser Desorption/Ablation Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer for In Situ Exploration of Europa. 2021 IEEE Aerospace Conference (50100). 2021 1-13.

Carly Maas et al. (2021) Managing Stormwater by Accident: A Conceptual Study. Water. 13(11) 1492.

Benjamin Farcy et al. (2021) Understanding the Lunar Nearside–Farside Dichotomy via In Situ Trace Element Measurements: The Scientific Framework of a Prospective Landed Mission. The Planetary Science Journal. 2 80.

Joseph Galella et al. (2021) Sensors track mobilization of 'chemical cocktails' in streams impacted by road salts in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Environmental Research Letters. 16(3) 035017.

Goeun Ha et al. (2020) Melt focusing along permeability barriers at subduction zones and the location of volcanic arcs. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 21(12) e2020GC009253.

Jeng-Hann Chong and Huang. (2020) Refining the 2018 Mw 7.5 Papua New Guinea Earthquake Fault-Slip Model Using Subpixel Offset. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

Kayleigh Harvey et al. (2020) Assessing P-T variability in melange blocks from the Catalina Schist: Is there differential movement at the subduction interface?. Journal of Metamorphic Geology.

Benjamin Farcy et al. (2020) K/U of the MORB source and silicate Earth. JGR Solid Earth. 125(12) e2020JB020245.

Benjamin Farcy et al. (2020) A prospective microwave plasma source for in situ spaceflight applications. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry. 35 2740-2747.

Ziqin Ni et al. (2020) A Novel Approach to Identifying Mantle-Equilibrated Zircon by Using Trace Element Chemistry. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 21(11) e2020GC009230.

William Hoover et al. (2020) Massive fluid influx beneath the Colorado Plateau (USA) related to slab removal and diatreme emplacement: Evidence from oxygen isotope zoning in eclogite xenoliths. Journal of Petrology. 61

Carol Morel et al. (2020) Developing Sensor Proxies for "Chemical Cocktails" of Trace Metals in Urban Streams. Water. 12(10) 2864.

Scott Wipperfurth et al. (2020) Reference Models for Lithospheric Geoneutrino Flux. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 125 e2019JB018433.

Laura Sammon et al. (2020) Lower Crustal Composition in the Southwestern United States. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 125

Samuel Crossley et al. (2020) Sulfide-dominated partial melting pathways in brachinites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science.

Connor Hilton et al. (2020) Origin and age of metal veins in Canyon Diablo graphite nodules. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. 55 (4) 771-780.

Connor Hilton and Walker. (2020) New implications for the origin of the IAB main group iron meteorites and the isotopic evolution of the noncarbonaceous (NC) reservoir. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 540 116248.

Angela Marusiak et al. (2020) The Deployment of the Seismometer to Investigate Ice and Ocean Structure (SIIOS) on Gulkana Glacier, Alaska. Seismological Research Letters. 91 1901-1914.

James Dottin III et al. (2020) Sulfur isotope characterization of primordial and recycled sources feeding the Samoan mantle plume. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 534

Kristel Izquierdo et al. (2020) A Bayesian Approach to Infer Interior Mass Anomalies from the Gravity Data of Celestial Bodies. Geophysical Journal International. 220 1687-1699.

Angela Marusiak et al. (2020) Terrestrial single-station analog for constraining the Martian core and deep interior: Implications for InSight. Icarus. 335

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