Larsen receives Fulbright
Assistant Professor Dr. Isaac Larsen has received a Fulbright Scholarship for Spring 2020! Dr.
PhD student Shaina Rogstad and Professor Ambarish Karmalkar speak about climate change in Daily Hampshire Gazette
The Daily Hampshire Gazette recently interviewed PhD student Shaina Rogstad and assistant Professor Dr. Ambarish Karmalkar on the IPCC's recent report on the impacts of global warming and how it will affect Western Massachusetts. Read more...
Julie Brigham-Grette noted reviewer for map of Beringia, featured in Daily Hampshire Gazette
Department head and professor Dr. Julie Brigham-Grette was interviewed by Live Science on her role in the construction of the Yukon Geological Survey's new map of Beringia, ca. 18,000 years ago. Read more...
Rawlins interviewed by WAMC on Climate Change's increased "Weather Whiplash"
Dr. Mike Rawlins, associate director of the Climate Systems Research Center, was recently interviewed on WAMC Northeast Public Radio about 2018 being the wettest year on record for Massachusetts, in addition to increasingly rapid weather changes in New England due to climate change. Read more...
DeConto featured in National Geographic
Recent research by Professor Dr. Rob DeConto is featured by National Geographic-- The article discusses this research in the light of studies pubished this month showing that retreat of of our ice caps may be slower than previously thought, though the situation is still dire... Read More...
Salacup publishes new paper on paleothermometry in coastal settings
Staple Isotope Laboratory manager and alum Dr. Jeff Salacup published a recent paper in AGU's Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology on using alkenones from phytoplankton to reconstruct high-resolution paleo- sea surface temperatures from coastal settings in Narragansett Bay, RI. Read more....
New paper by Burns and Scroxton on rapid climate oscillations during the Pleistocene
Professor Dr. Stephen Burns, post-doctoral researcher Dr.
Student Profile: Marsha Allen
“The world needs more hydrogeologists.”
The U-Mass International Programs office recently highlighted PhD student Marsha Allen and her goal of preventing water shortages on her native island of Tobago. Read more...
Dipa Desai profiled on Time Scavengers
Graduate Student Dipa Desai was recently profiled on the Time Scavengers blog! Dipa is a paleoclimatologist who studies how Antarctica responded to past warming events in addition to being a stellar earth science educator. Read the article here...
Graduate students publish unprecedented 900-year climate record for the Northeastern United States
Graduate students Daniel Miller, Helen Habicht, and Benjamin Keisling, with Dr.'s Isla Castañeda and Ray Bradley published the longest and highest-resolution climate record for the Northeastern United States in Climate of
Rob DeConto wins Prize for Antarctic Research
New UMass-affiliated GSA Fellows
Congratulations to the new class of GSA fellows:
Carol de Wet (Franklin & Marshall College; nominated by Gail Ashley)
Anna Martini (Amherst College; nominated by Tekla Harms)
Suzanne McEnroe (Norwegian University of Science & Technology; nominated by Laurie Brown)Geosciences joins the new School of Earth & Sustainability
Breaking news - Geosciences joins the new School of Earth & Sustainability (SES) in partnership with Department of Environmental Conservation (ECo), and the Stockbridge School of Agriculture (SSA)! SES is dedicated to solving the complex, global environmental challenges of the 21st century.
Julie Brigham-Grette Addresses International Summit on Arctic Cooperation, Resilience
AMHERST, Mass. – In her role as chair of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences’ Polar Research Board, geosciences professor Julie Brigham-Grette of the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Aug. 31 gave one of the few invited scientific talks at the international Summit Conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience (GLACIER), organized by Secretary of State John Kerry. President Barack Obama addressed the GLACIER summit at the end of the day.
Baseball caps and T-Shirts on sale in the Department Office
Pick up these great looking caps and T-shirts in the Geosciences Department Office!
T-shirts are $20 ($10 is a tax deductable donation to the gallery), and Geosciences baseball caps are $10.
Purchases can be made in person by cash or check. You can also mail us a check with your size and return address by writing to:Why science would benefit from a symbiosis-driven history of speciation.
Portrait of an Integrated Research and Extension Project: RiverSmart
Portrait of an Integrated Research and Extension Project: RiverSmart
Supporting Flood Prevention and Remediation in New England
Eve Vogel awarded IWR Water Resources Grant
RiverSmart Communities and Federal Collaborators: Attuning federal agencies and programs with state, regional and local efforts to support ecologically restorative flood prevention and remediation in New England"Bill" Bromery Remembered
The Department of Geosciences and University of Massachusetts mourn the death of Bill Bromery.
The UMass Department of Geosciences announces with great sorrow the death on February 26, 2013, of former professor and department head, Randolph W. Bromery.
Laurie Brown Delivers the Year's Final Distinguished Faculty Lecture
Laurie Brown delivered the final Distinguished Lecture Series of the academic year on March 11th, in the Massachusetts Room at the Mullins Center. Following her talk on reversals of the Earth's magnetic fields, Dr. Kumble R. Subbaswamy presented Dr. Brown with the Chancellor's Award. A reception followed the lecture and presentation.
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