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.
Research Fellow Dana MacDonald taught a 2-day workshop on recognizing evidence of Paleo-fires in the geologic record and conducted field research at the University of the West Indies - Mona, in Kingston, Jamaica. The WHOI Coastal Group published a short article on his research the workshop here.
In a new paper in Quaternary Science Reviews, successful PhD candidate Greg de Wet and fellow researchers use the sedimentological record proglacial lake Gjøavatnet on Amsterdamøya, NW Svalbard to reconstruct the activity of the Annabreen glacier across the entire Holocene. The paper can be accessed here.
M.S. Candidate Kaitlyn Suarez created this video hilighting the 2017 5-college geology fieldtrip to Arizona. You can view the video here.
Several of our undergraduate are giving presentations this Friday, April 28, at the 23rd Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference. More information about the conference can be found here. A list of students and the research they are presenting can be found in the photo.
The Department of Geosciences is participating in #UMassGives to upgrade our introductory laboratory instruction classroom and outfit it with polished rock tabletops. This will give our students essential, tangible tools for their explorations as part of our introductory courses.
Donate here and help promote your donation by using the hashtag #UMassGivesROCKS
Dr. David Boutt published a recent research in the journal Hydrological Processes showing that upland aquifer systems dominated by thin deposits of surface till – a jumbled, unsorted material deposited by glaciers – make up about 70 percent of the active and dynamic groundwater storage for the region.Read more about the research here.
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