News & Annoucements![]() Geology Graduate Student Awarded GrantDepartmental graduate student Emily Constantine Mercurio has won a prestigious Student Grant from the Evolving Earth Foundation. This program provides grants to support student research in the earth sciences with an emphasis on research topics that relate to the mission of the foundation, including the understanding of paleoenvironments during different intervals in earth's history. Each year only about 10 of these grants are awarded nationally. Read More >
Geology Graduate Students win Awards at AGUTwo graduate students (Shellie Rose and Marion Sikora) from the Department of Geology and Planetary Science have won Outstanding Student Presentations at the Fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in San Francisco, CA in December, 2008. The AGU Outstanding Student Paper Awards program recognizes the best of a strong group of students who present at annual meeting and are typically within the top three to five percentile.
Read More > In the Field![]() White SandsUndergraduate Allie Ackerman ponders extensive gypsum dunes in New Mexico during a 2008 field expedition led by Professor Rosemary Capo to investigate eolian deposition in deserts. Read More > This Week's Colloquium |




