Dr. Michael Rawlins, associate director of the Climate Systems Research Center, received grants from NASA and the U.S. DOE to study climate driven changes in arctic ecosystems. The grants will allow Rawlins and his team to expand on his multi-institutional effort to understand biological processes and land-ocean interactions controlling the structure and function of the Beaufort Lagoons complex in northern Alaska.
Dr. Robert DeConto has received a four-year grant from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Prediction of and Resilience Against Extreme Events (PREEVENTS) program.The goal of the grant is to better characterize the uncertainty in sea-level rise predictions and coastal flooding risk that stems from complex ice-sheet physics and interactions among the ice sheets, ocean, atmosphere and underlying solid land.
Associate Professor David Boutt received an award from the state of Massachusetts to continue monitoring isotopes in groundwater across the state. These data can be used to examine the impacts of drought vs. wet weather on groundwater.
Dr. Michele Cooke and recent graduates Alex Hatem and Kevin Toeneboehn recently published a paper in the Journal of Structural Geology on the formation and growth of strike slip faults and their relation to earthquakes. More information can be found here.
The paper can be found here.
The American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Focus Group announced this week that it has chosen Isaac Larsen, assistant professor of geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, to receive the coveted Luna B. Leopold Young Scientist Award for 2017. It recognizes a young scientist “for making a significant and outstanding contribution that advances the field of earth and planetary surface processes.”
Dr. Qian Yu is the author of what has become one of the top ten most-cited papers in remote sensing over the past decade!
More information on Google Scholar's "Classic Papers" can be found here.
A new article in Water Resources Research, co-authored by adjunct professor Brian Yellen, examines long-term dynamics in sediment yield by using time-varying sediment-discharge rating curves.
The article can be found here.
The work of many of our department researchers, as part of RiverSmart Communities was recently highlighted on 2 local television programs: WGBY and Greenfield Community Television.
Professor J. Michael Rhodes has been elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. The awards ceremony will be in New Orleans on Oct. 22, 2017 at the Society's Annual Meeting.
The Geosciences Alumni Reunion Weekend will be happening on October 6th, 7th, and 8th this year.
For more information, see the event page here.
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