A new paper co-authored by Dr. Stephen Burns uses speleothem records to document paleoclimate in Southern Arabia. The research found over 21 pluvial periods with precipitation of more than 300 mm per year to have occurred since ∼1.1 million years ago. Read more...
Dr. Michael Rawlins, climate modeler and associate director of the geoscience department’s Climate Systems Research Center, is lead author of a new analysis of the changing character of runoff, river discharge and other hydrological cycle elements across the North Slope of Alaska.
Dr. Julie Brigham-Grette was interviewed by the Polish blog Glacjoblogia discussing her research of past climate change— looking particularly into the last 2-3 million years of Earth history across the Arctic.
Dr. Julie Brigham-Grette will highlight the Lake El’gygytgyn Drilling program on PBS's Polar Extremes, airing February 5th and 8pm EST. The show also contains several familiar faces to those in our department, including alum Jeremy Shaken: Watch the trailer, and show, at https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/polar-extremes/
PhD students Karin Lehnigk and Sarah McKnight have created a blog highlighting their experiences while conducting research abroad this semester.
PhD student Brendan Moran, Dr. David Boutt, and Dr.
Several students and faculty are presenting their research at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union this week in San Fransisco. Below is a list of when and where you can find them:
U-Mass Geosciences is one of 14 departments selected, among 52 applicants, to participate in the newly inaugurated American Geophysical Union Bridge Program, part of the Inclusive Graduate Education Network, to increase success of URM graduate students in geosciences.
PhD students Hannah Baranes and Dr. Benjamin Keisling presenting on ice sheet stability models and estimating flood hazards at the COP25 Cryosphere Pavilion at the U.N. IPCC COP-25 meeting in Madrid! See more, including video of their Early Career talks, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH6IS3Rnw4I.
PhD student Raquel Bryant and her colleague Rehemat Bhatia are featured in The Atlantic this week: speaking about their scientific collaboration, resulting friendship, and buiding networks of mutual support as two of the few women of color in the geosciences. Read More...
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