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
UMD Astronomer Helps Take a Closer Look at ‘Dinky’ Asteroid
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 - Mehdi Benna from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Friday, September 20, 2024
11:00 am
ESJ 0215
The Lunar Environment Monitoring Station for Artemis 3: A new type of instrumentation for a new era of lunar exploration.
Colloquium - Jie Deng from Princeton University
Friday, September 27, 2024
11:00 am
ESJ 0215
Mantle heterogeneities originated from the Earth’s core: A new model
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