Geosciences at 2021 American Association of Geographers Meeting
Several students and faculty will be participating in the 2021 (virtual) annual meeting of the American Assocation of Geographers. See below for a schedule of who is presenting when:
News
Anna Ruth Halberstadt publishes new paper on evolution of Antarctic Ice Sheet
In a new paper in Earth and Planetary Science Letters PhD student Anna Ruth Halberstadt, Dr.
Laura Fattaruso on earthquake gap in SoCal
PhD student Laura Fattaruso recently published a piece on temblor about recent research that looks into why the southern San Andreas Fault has had a relative lac
Hydrogeology research group publishes several papers
The hydrogeology research group has published a number of articles in the past few weeks on their research in the Salar De Atacama, Island of Tobago, and Massachusetts. This stellar cast of authors includes Professor David Boutt and graduate students
Dr. Eve Vogel on Texas Power Market
![Linemen work to restore power in Texas during winter storm, February 2021. Photo by Jonathan Cutrer, via Flickr [CC BY-NC 2.0]](http://www.ace.scar.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumb-square/public/field/image/news/texas-1-1068x580.jpg?itok=Mc3N8Okc)
New tectonic model proposed for the late Paleozoic in New England
Recent alum Ian Hillenbrand, professors Mike Williams and Haiying Gao, along with PhD student Cong Li
UMass Geosciences at NEGSA 2021
U-Mass Geosciences has a strong showing at the (virtual) annual meeting of the Northeastern Section of the Geological Society of America, March 14th and 15th 2021. If you're attending #NEGSA2021 this year don't miss out! Here is a schedule of who is presenting and when.
Corn Belt Farmland Has Lost a Third of its Carbon-Rich Soil
Graduate student Evan Thaler, with professors Isaac Larsen and Qian Yu, recently published a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that documents complete carbon-rich topsoil loss in one-third of the Corn Belt in the Midwest – nearly 30 million acres.
Recent Geoscience Graduate Employment Trends, December 2020
The American Geosciences Institute just published their report of Geoscience graduate employment trends as of December 2020: "91% of geoscience graduates who earned their degree between 2014-2018 were employed, while 75% of graduates f
Yellen and Woodruff document low sediment levels behind dams
Dr's Brian Yellen, John Woodruff, and collaborators at WHOI recently published a paper in Estuaries and Coasts documenting their findings of much-lower-than-expected sediment levels behind dams in the Lower Hudson watershed in addition to creating a tool to qui
Spring 2021 Courses through University Without Walls
While most of our course offerings are remote this semester, we are offering several courses through U-Mass University Without Walls. These are asynchronous courses that are taught independently from your regular semester courseload, and can taken by anyone, whether enrolled at UMass or not.
Boutt to study impacts of lithium extraction
Dr. David Boutt, along with colleagues at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, has been commissioned as part of a cooperative study to investigate how lithium extraction impacts the hydrologic environment in Latin America, especially with regards to lithium brine-fresh water aquifer systems.
Dr. Piper Gaubatz publishes The Chinese City
The Geosciences Department is pleased to announce the November 29, 2020 publication of The Chinese City (Routledge, 2021), by Professor Piper Gaubatz (Geography Program) and Professor Weiping Wu (Director, Columbia University Graduate Program in Urban Planning).
Shaina Sadai leads study on impacts of high Antarctic ice melt
PhD student Shaina Sedai is lead author on a recent paper published in Science Advances discussing simulations of dramatic climate impacts from higher Antarctic melt. With her co-authors, including alum Dr.
U-Mass Geosciences at AGU
U-Mass Geosciences has a strong showing at the (virtual) annual Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union this year, with 43 department members as authors on 39 talks and posters from December 7th - 16th, 2020. If you're attending #AGU2020 this year don't miss out! Here is a schedule of who is presenting and when:
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