We are Hiring: Assistant Professor in Earth Materials

Moon is Not As “Geologically Dead” As Previously Thought, New Study Reveals

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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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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

Colloquium - Daniel Segessenman from George Mason University

Friday, February 14, 2025

11:00 am

ESJ 0215

North America’s Ediacaran Story: A Tale of Global Environmental Change as told by Carbonate Quantity and Carbon Isotope Values

Colloquium - Erica Jawin from National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institute

Friday, February 21, 2025

11:00 am

ESJ 0215

Shattered Fragments: Origins and evolution of asteroid (101955) Bennu and the OSIRIS-REx mission

George and Rosalind Helz Distinguished Lecture in Geology - Alexander Halliday from Columbia University

Thursday, March 6, 2025

4:00 pm

ESJ 0202

Climate change, an academic imperative

Recent Graduate and Undergraduate Student Publications