Salt Life: Take a Home Tour to Learn How We’re Worsening Salinity Around the World

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Researchers Solve Mystery of 'Dinky' Dinosaur’s Unusually Long Stride

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2024 Department of Geology

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Ancient Sunken Seafloor Reveals Earth’s Deep Secrets

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Associate Professor Nicholas Schmerr Helped Develop Lunar Instrument Chosen for Upcoming NASA Artemis Mission

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Faculty and Student Awards

  • Graduate Student Madeline Raith won a NASA FINESST Award to study Mars mineralogy.
  • 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.

Upcoming Events

Graduate Seminar Day

Friday, January 24, 2025

9:00 am

ESJ 2208

Lori Willhite Dissertation Defense

Monday, January 27, 2025

12:30 pm

PSC 3150

Exploration of Earth's interior through tungsten isotope geochemistry of the Hawaiian mantle plume

Recent Graduate and Undergraduate Student Publications