UMass Geosciences at AGU
Several faculty and students will be presenting research at the annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Washington DC from December 10th-14th. Below is a schedule of where and when to see them!
Professor Michele Cooke on Deaf Gain in the scientific community
Professor Michele L. Cooke was recently featured by UMass Magazine discussing Deaf Gain and the value that deaf and hard-of-hearing people provide to the larger community.
Rawlins and Boutt on extremely wet autumn in New England
Dr.'s Michael Rawlins and David Boutt weigh in on the how and why this was one of the wettest autumns on record for New England. Read More...
Riversmart Communities authors chapter in Handbook of Critical Physical Geography
Alum Nicole Gillet, Dr. Eve Vogel, alum Noah Slovin, and Dr.
XRF Facility receives NSF grant to upgrade equipment
This grant pays for a new X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) spectrometer to replace two old and failing X-ray spectrometers at UMass-Amherst. The current instruments have operated constantly for more than 30 years. The new instrument will continue to be an important resource for the students and faculty at UMass, the Five College consortium in the region and universities worldwide. The UMass laboratory has served scientists the world over for more than 30 years. It will now be able to continue the tradition as a valuable and trusted resource for high quality XRF chemical analyses to the U.S.
Morse awarded Peacock Medal by Mineralogical Association of Canada
Stearns A. “Tony” Morse, professor emeritus of geosciences, has received the Mineralogical Association of Canada’s Peacock Medal, its highest award, for “outstanding contributions to the mineral sciences of Canada.” The award was presented at a lunch June 19 during the association’s annual meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. Read more...
Collaborative open-access paper offers 900-year temperature history for New England
A collaboration between the Northeast Climate Adapatation Science Center, students, and faculty in the department has resulted in the first decade-scale paleotemperature reconstruction for New England, spanning ~900 years.
U-Mass Geosciences at GSA 2018 in Indianapolis!
Several of our students and faculty will be presenting their work at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Indiannapolis. If you're at the conference, be sure to check them out!
Sunday, 4 November 2018
08:05 AM - 08:20 AM
Hatch, Cooke, Marshall with new paper on Southern San Andreas
Graduate student Jennifer Hatch, Professor Michele Cooke, and alum Dr. Scott Marshall just published a new open access paper in Geosphere on the active geometry of the southern San Andreas fault: A complicated system, with much more data needed to vastly improve current models of fault geometry and slip rates.
Earth Science Week Open House Highlights teaching labs, unveils pillow basalt in Morrill Courtyard
We had a busy and successful open house of our new teaching lab on Friday, featuring an analog modeling table for structural geology, flume table, augmented reality sandbox, and, of course, our alumni-funded stone tables, in addition to the
Michael Rawlins on WFCR
Michael Rawlins, UMass Extension Assistant Professor and the manager of the Climate Research Center was recently interviewed by the UMass-Five College public radio station, WFCR. On September 17th, they broadcast a segment on how the Fall weather might affect the length of the mosquito season on Morning Edition.
In Remembrance of Lynn Margulis
Distinguished University Professor Lynn Margulis - (3/5/1938 - 11/22/2011)
Past periodic warmth in Arctic may be related to melting Antarctic ice sheets
First analyses of the longest sediment core ever collected on land in the Arctic, published this week inScience, provide dramatic, “astonishing” documentation that intense warm intervals, warmer than scientists thought possible, occurred there over the past 2.8 million years.
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