Undergraduates present research at 5 college geology symposium
Eight UMass Geosciences undergraduates presented their research at the 5 College Geology Symposium at Amherst College on Tuesday, April 24th, 2018:
Post-Doc Will Daniels on NASA mission to improve astronaut experience
Postdoctoral researcher Will Daniels is about to spend 45 days "away from Earth" - without ever leaving the ground - as part of NASA's 17th Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA) mission at NASA - Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. Read more...
UMass Geosciences at EGU in Vienna
Several of our faculty and students are presenting at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) general assembly in Vienna, Austria, this week:
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U-Mass Geosciences presentations at AAG 2018 in New Orleans this week!
In New Orleans this week for The Association of American Geographers (AAG) annual meeting? Check out these presentations by U-Mass fauclty and students:
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Kaitlyn Suarez awarded competitive NSF Fellowship
We're proud to announce that graduate student Kaitlyn Suarez has been awarded a 2017 Graduate Research Fellowship by the National Science Foundation, which will fund her graduate research for 3 years. Kaitlyn is among 8 fellows who are pursuing their graduate degrees at U-Mass Amherst.
New paper by Dr. Haiying Gao on Cascadia Subduction Zone
A new paper in Nature Communications by Dr. Haiying Gao correlates earthquake distribution in the Cascadia Subduction Zone with 3D variations in the geometry of the subducting slab. Read more...
New paper models future earthquake and tsunami risk in southeast Japan
Graduate student Hannah Baranes, along with her advisor Jonathon Woodruff, Smith College professor Jack Loveless, and Mamoru Hyodo (Japanese Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology) unveiled a new, GPS-based methods for modeling earthquake-induced tsunamis for southeast Japan along the Nankai Trough in a new paper published
Graduate Students awarded Campus Climate Improvement Grant
Graduate students Raquel Bryant, Benjamin Keisling, Mariela Garcia Arredondo (ECO), and Nigel Golden (NECSC / ECO) were recently awarded a Campus Climate Improvement Grant from the Office of
UMass Geosciences is at NEGSA this week!
We're proud to be presenting over 20 talks and posters this week at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Section of the Geological Society of America in Burlington, VT. Here's a list of of who's presenting and when:
Passing of Professor George McGill 1931-2018
Professor George Emmert McGill passed away peacefully on Tuesday, March 13, 2018, in Amherst, Massachusetts at the age of 86.George was born on June 10, 1931, in Des Moines, Iowa. He moved to Minnesota for college, receiving his BA in geology and biology from Carleton College, and his MS in geology from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. It was in Minneapolis that he met Esterica Choban, who became his wife in 1955.
DeWet reconstructs Holocene glacier activity on Svalbard from proglacial lake sediments
In a new paper in Quaternary Science Reviews, successful PhD candidate Greg de Wet and fellow researchers use the sedimentological record proglacial lake Gjøavatnet on Amsterdamøya, NW Svalbard to reconstruct the activity of the Annabreen glacier across the entire Holocene. The paper can be accessed here.
New video hilighting 5-college trip to Arizona
M.S. Candidate Kaitlyn Suarez created this video hilighting the 2017 5-college geology fieldtrip to Arizona. You can view the video here.
Geoscience undergraduates presenting at 23rd Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference
Several of our undergraduate are giving presentations this Friday, April 28, at the 23rd Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference. More information about the conference can be found here. A list of students and the research they are presenting can be found in the photo.
Help contribute to improving our introductory geology classroom
The Department of Geosciences is participating in #UMassGives to upgrade our introductory laboratory instruction classroom and outfit it with polished rock tabletops. This will give our students essential, tangible tools for their explorations as part of our introductory courses.
Donate here and help promote your donation by using the hashtag #UMassGivesROCKS
New England’s Glacial Upland Soils Provide Major Groundwater Storage Reservoir
Dr. David Boutt published a recent research in the journal Hydrological Processes showing that upland aquifer systems dominated by thin deposits of surface till – a jumbled, unsorted material deposited by glaciers – make up about 70 percent of the active and dynamic groundwater storage for the region.Read more about the research here.
UMass geoscientists tackle inherent bias, featured in The Bearded Lady Project
Graduate students Serena Dameron, Raquel Bryant and Adriane Lam, with Dr. Kinuyo Kanamaru, have been featured in portraits by The Bearded Lady Project this past month. Participants in the project aim to celebrate the critical contirbutions of women scientists to their fields, in addition to educating the public on the gender, race, and class-based inequalities and prejudices that exist in the sciences, with special emphasis on paleontology.
Distributed Temperature Sensing Workshop in May
Dr. Christine Hatch (of U-Mass RiverSmart Communities) will be co-teaching a workshop from May 23-25 on deploying Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) networks. Deadline to register is April 21.
UMass Geographers Compete in 2017 World Geography Bowl National Championship
UMass Geography students Kevin Bean and Owen Bragdon represented New England at the National World Geography Bowl competition at the AAG Annual Meeting in Boston on April 8, 2017.
Students: Present your research at the SES Launch Party!
The School of Earth & Sustainability (SES) announces a Call for Submissions for the Student Showcase that is part of the SES Launch on Wednesday, April 19th
Submissions accepted until April 12 at 5 pm. Submit here.
New paper by Nick Scroxton and Steve Burns documents historic monsoon variability in Madagascar
A new paper by post-doctoral researcher Nick Scroxton and faculty member Steve Burns uses isotope variations in stalagmites to document monsoon variability in the southern hemisphere over the past 2000 years.
The paper can be read, for a limited time, here.
A permanent link to the paper is here.
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