Department of Geosciences at UMass Amherst

Clear blue stream flowing through high alpine meadow in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado

Scientists Devise New Method to Study CO2 Emissions in Rivers and Streams

Brian Saccardi and Dr. Matthew Winnick are balancing the carbon budget in Colorado

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Student Spotlight

PhD student Karin Lehnigk uncovers the backstory of Earth's Varied Landscapes

Karin's research studies the roles that ancient megafloods played in shaping the Channeled Scablands in the Northwestern United States and their implications for forming similar features on Mars.

Karin Lehnigk standing in front of desert canyon containing steel grey lake

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2021 Meteorological Autumn 3rd warmest on record for Northeast

Associate director of the Climate Systems Science Center Michael Rawlins was recently interviewed about continuing warming trends.
Tracing groundwater's journey

Professor David Boutt discusses five case studies demonstrating the power of using stable isotopes to track the movement of groundwater in New England.
Deciphering historic patterns of tropical rainfall

With a new paper in Quaternary Science Reviews, Professor Stephen Burns and colleagues use speleothems in SW Madagascar to document the migration and atmospheric controls of the Inter-tropical Convergence Zone over the past 117,000 years.
The surprising cause of the little ice age

The Little Ice Age was one of the coldest periods of the past 10,000 years. Post-doctoral research fellow François LaPointe and Dr. Raymond Bradley's latest research gives an up to date picture of why it happened.
UMass Geosciences at AGU

U-Mass Geosciences has a strong showing at annual Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union!
Undergraduate recognized for academic excellence

Keegan Moynahan has been awarded the competitive 2022 AAG Marble-Boyle Undergraduate Achievement Award in Geographic Science. He is currently using GIS to analyze wildfire data and determine vulnerable areas that would best benefit from risk management and disaster mitigation strategies.