Dr. Christine Hatch investigates recent flood damage in Belchertown, MA, in this recent piece in the Daily Hampshire Gazette.

PhD candidate Karin Lehnigk is one of two U-Mass Amherst graduate students to be awarded an NSF INTERN 6-month internship.

Dr Christine Hatch and co-authors recently published an article in Hydrological Processes challenging the historic assumption that hydraulic conductivity can be treated as a constant in hydraulic and hydrogeologic modeling, especially at sediment-water i

Dr. Christine Hatch recently brought the department's stream table to students at Amherst Regional Middle School as part of their Climate Change Carnival. “This is a good thing to learn about,” said Elannah Brennan, 14, of Amherst, after working with other students to form the riverbeds as the water was unleashed.

Posdoctoral researcher Doug Hardy recently co-authored a paper published in Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research on ground thermal regimes on tropical mountains a

Professor Julie Brigham-Grette is playing a key role in the founding of the 50x30 Coalition: an alliance between cryosphere and emissions research institutions and governments that have accepted the scientific necessity to reduce emissions 50% by 2030.

New research in Nature led by professor Rob DeConto, co-director of the School of Earth & Sustainability, and co-authors including PhD student

Dr.’s Christine Hatch and Brian Yellen will be presenting on how communities can connect with and protect their local rivers for the Connecticut River Conservancy’s Livestream: River Connections for Healthy C

PhD student Shaina Sadai and Professor Mark Leckie are recipients of the University's 2021

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:

PhD student Laura Fattaruso recently published a piece on temblor about recent research that looks into why the

Associate Professor Eve Vogel provides an analysis in ProMarket about the recent failure of the Texas Power Grid in the contexts of broader electricity markets

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!

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

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 n

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).

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!

Dr's Julie Brigham-Grette and Steve Petsch published a piece in The Conversation about the warming Arctic, their paleoclimate research on past warm climates, and the implication

A little over a year ago our beloved faculty member, Dr Sheila Seaman, lost her long and valiant battle with cancer— To honor her dedication to education, research, and the betterment of students, we are launching the Sheila Seaman Student Research Fund.  This endowed fun

In a new paper this week in the Journal of Geography in Higher Education, geographer Dr Forrest Bowlick and colleagues at Texas A&M offer first-hand accounts of what is required for GIS instr

The Geological Society of America’s (GSA) Continental Scientific Drilling Division (CSD) has named Dr Julie Brigham-Grette as one of its two Distinguished Lecturers for 2020, which means she will be available to give online seminars on her Arctic drilling researc

USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) has awarded a two-year, $300,000 grant to Dr. Brian Yellen  to develop tools to estimate the mass of carbon stored in salt marshes.

Dr Stan Stevens retired this month after a 33 year-long career of teaching, 25 of them at U-Mass Amherst— Dr Stevens research and teaching explores society/nature interaction via political and culture ecological approaches and collaborative fieldwork with indigenous peoples.

Recent alum Dr Jessica McBeck and professor Dr Michele Cooke are senior authors on a recent paper in