The Daily Hampshire Gazette recently interviewed PhD student Shaina Rogstad and assistant Professor Dr. Ambarish Karmalkar on the IPCC's recent report on the impacts of global warming and how it will affect Western Massachusetts. Read more...
Department head and professor Dr. Julie Brigham-Grette was interviewed by Live Science on her role in the construction of the Yukon Geological Survey's new map of Beringia, ca. 18,000 years ago. Read more...
Dr. Mike Rawlins, associate director of the Climate Systems Research Center, was recently interviewed on WAMC Northeast Public Radio about 2018 being the wettest year on record for Massachusetts, in addition to increasingly rapid weather changes in New England due to climate change. Read more...
Recent research by Professor Dr. Rob DeConto is featured by National Geographic-- The article discusses this research in the light of studies pubished this month showing that retreat of of our ice caps may be slower than previously thought, though the situation is still dire... Read More...
Staple Isotope Laboratory manager and alum Dr. Jeff Salacup published a recent paper in AGU's Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology on using alkenones from phytoplankton to reconstruct high-resolution paleo- sea surface temperatures from coastal settings in Narragansett Bay, RI. Read more....
Professor Dr. Stephen Burns, post-doctoral researcher Dr.
“The world needs more hydrogeologists.”
The U-Mass International Programs office recently highlighted PhD student Marsha Allen and her goal of preventing water shortages on her native island of Tobago. Read more...
Graduate Student Dipa Desai was recently profiled on the Time Scavengers blog! Dipa is a paleoclimatologist who studies how Antarctica responded to past warming events in addition to being a stellar earth science educator. Read the article here...
Graduate students Daniel Miller, Helen Habicht, and Benjamin Keisling, with Dr.'s Isla Castañeda and Ray Bradley published the longest and highest-resolution climate record for the Northeastern United States in Climate of
Dr.'s Erik Shook (University of Minnesota) and Forrest Bowlick recently published a paper in The Professional Geographer on formalizing geospatial computing education and increasing cyber literacy in GIST programs. Read more...
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