On Friday, May 22, the Department (virtually) held its annual awards ceremony granting awards and scholarships to outstanding seniors and research scholarships to graduate students from our department alumni endowments and memorial funds. It's with much pride that we celebrate students and their accomplishments.
Outstanding Senior Awards:
Geology:
Earth Systems:
Geography:
Seniors, students, faculty, staff and alums: please join us in a digital celebration of the 2020 graduating class this upcoming month and until we are able to celebrate them in person!
The university’s Board of Trustees unanimously voted to name the UMass Amherst Fine Arts Center (FAC) for the late Dr Randolph W. “Bill” Bromery, in honor of the former chancellor, geoscientist, and Geosciences department head who played a transformative role in creating today’s vibrant and diverse public research university. Click here to read more.
Several graduate students submitted excellent proposals to the NSF Graduate Student Research Fellowship program this year. Current graduate student Kelly McKeon and incoming graduate student Sam McComb were awarded fellowships for their proposals.
The Geomechanics Group has recently published two new papers in Geosphere.
"Urban forests have long been forgotten by ecosystem scientists and biogeochemists..." Dr Justin Richardson and co-authors recently published a paper in Science of the Total Environment. The paper highlights research conducted by U-Mass undergraduates, graduate student Jonah Jordan, and himself on mercu
![[Image: Nyeema Harris of the University of Michigan gives a BRiDGE2Impacts presentation entitled “The Fierce Urgency of Now to Redefine Impact in Academia” at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in October 2018. Credit: Benjamin Keisling]](http://www.ace.scar.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumb-square/public/field/image/news/EVL80qxXYAEhTM3.jpg?itok=R13mnacC)
UMass Amherst graduate students, including Geosciences alum Dr Benjamin Keisling and PhD Student Raquel Bryant, published a piece in the American Geophysical Union's Eos on how they created the U-Mass BRiDGE Program to increase the diversity of invited speakers to campus and create opportunities for students from marginalized groups to network with those prof
We are pleased to announce that the Insitute for Social Science Research (ISSR) at U-Mass has selected Dr. Eve Vogel as one of its 2020-2021 Scholars.
Dr Christine Hatch recently contributed to the regular Earth Matters column in the Daily Hampshire Gazette with a piece on finding the perfect conditions to measure groundwater outflow in a frozen wetland, as part of a project to restore a natural wetland at the site of a retired cranberry bog.
A new paper in Earth-Science Reviews by Dr. Michele Cooke and co-authors discusses which rock analog (i.e., physical) materials work best for particular scaled-deformation experiments in structural geology, including benefits and drawbacks of different materials. Read the paper here...
PhD student Laura Fattaruso recently published a piece in temblor on alum Dr. Heather Savage's and Dr. Pratigya Polissar's recent study in Nature Communications on using organic molecules to detect heat produced during large earthquakes. Read the story here...
Dr. Justin Richardson and colleagues recently published a new paper in Environmental Pollution on whether or not one can predict heavy concentration in an earthwork based on the soil concentration of said metals. Read the paper here...
A new episode of PhD student Laura Fattaruso's podcast, Labtalk with Laura, talks with alumni of the STEMSEAS program (Student Experiences Aboard Ships) started by Sharon Cooper and Jon Lewis. She's joined in the studio by Emma Robertson, a UMass undergrad who sailed last summer from Woods Hole, MA to Reykjavik, Iceland.
“Dinosaurs sit at an evolutionary point between birds, which are warm-blooded, and reptiles, which are cold-blooded. Our results suggest that all major groups of dinosaurs had warmer body temperatures than their environment” - post-doctoral fellow Dr. Robin Dawson on her research she performed while a doctoral student at Yale University. Read More...
Professor Julie Brigham-Grette, geosciences, has been honored by Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation with one of its coveted Humboldt Research Awards, which will support her research collaborations there over the coming six months.
Department of Geosciences
627 North Pleasant Street
233 Morrill Science Center
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003-9297
Phone: (413) 545-2286
Fax: (413) 545-1200
