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2024 Department of Geology
Ancient Sunken Seafloor Reveals Earth’s Deep Secrets
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