Geology announces a new undergraduate major track in Earth and Environmental Sciences, beginning in fall of 2023!

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Geology Ph.D. Student Sourabh Shubham Helps Discover Remains of a Recent Glacier Near Mars' Equator.

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A team of UMD, GMU, and Equinor geochemists unearth clues to Late Devonian mass extinction in a major oil source rock from North America.

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UMD Geology and NASA team investigates tidal motion on rifts in Antarctica as analogs for Enceladus and Europa.

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Four early career GEOL researchers contributed to the development of a miniaturized protoflight instrument for in situ astrobiology missions

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Faculty and Student Awards

  • Assistant Professor Megan Newcombe received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation! 02/21/2023
  • Congratulations to graduate student Casey Braccia who was the recipient of a 2022 NASA Exploration Science Forum Student Poster Award! 07/29/2022
  • 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. 07/26/2022
  • 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. 07/22/2022

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