Researchers Solve Mystery of 'Dinky' Dinosaur’s Unusually Long Stride

2024 Department of Geology

Ancient Sunken Seafloor Reveals Earth’s Deep Secrets

Associate Professor Nicholas Schmerr Helped Develop Lunar Instrument Chosen for Upcoming NASA Artemis Mission

UMD Geology Ph.D. Student Sourabh Shubham Helps Discover Giant Volcano on Mars

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.
Graduate Student Tytrice Faison received an Honorable Mention for her presentation at the campus-wide Three-Minute Thesis competition. Her talk was titled "UMD: Unravel Meteoritic Dating".

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Recent Graduate and Undergraduate Student Publications

Jiayang Sun and Farquhar. (2024) Fully resolved high-precision measurement of ³⁶S for sulfur reference materials. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 38(14) e9768.

Lori Willhite et al. (2024) Oxygen Fugacity of Ocean Island Basalts. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 25(1) e2023GC011249.

Lori Willhite et al. (2024) Oxygen Fugacity of Global Ocean Island Basalts. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 25(1) e2023GC011249.

Emily Chiappe et al. (2023) Chemical and genetic characterization of the ungrouped pallasite Lieksa. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. 58 1747–1759.

Zachary Zega and Zhu. (2023) Stabilizing Effect of High Pore Fluid Pressure on Fault Growth During Drained Deformation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 128(8) e2023JB026536.

Emily Chiappe et al. (2023) Age, genetics, and crystallization sequence of the group IIIE iron meteorites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 354 51-61.

Laura Sammon et al. (2022) Compositional Attributes of the Deep Continental Crust Inferred From Geochemical and Geophysical Data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 127(8) e2022JB024041.

Liam Peterson et al. (2022) The H₂O content of the ureilite parent body. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

Kathryn Franklin and Huang. (2022) Revealing Crustal Deformation and Strain Rate in Taiwan Using InSAR and GNSS. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(21) e2022GL101306.

Sandy Herho et al. (2022) On the Statistical Learning Analysis of Rain Gauge Data over the Natuna Islands. Indonesian Journal of Statistics and Its Applications. 6(2) 347–357.

Austin Gion et al. (2022) Characterizaiton of biotite and amphibole compositions in granites. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 177 43.