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Geology Field Trip to Spain
This year's international field trip will be to Spain in June. Peter Knoop has created a blog.
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Marin Clark's Nature article is featured in Michigan Today.
The article, "When continents collide: A new twist to a 50 million-year-old tale" has led to surprising findings that could add a new wrinkle to plate tectonics.
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Rod Ewing's article in Science calls for new research on nuclear fuels.
In an article in the journal Science, Rod Ewing calls for a research program to study how nuclear fuels behave during core-melt events like those at Fukushima.
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Congratulations to Dan Horton 2011 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award winner
Congratulations also go to Alison Duvall for her Honorable Mention.
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Greg Dick was recently diving on the deepest known black smokers on the planet
Greg Dick was recently on the ship Atlantis over the Mid-Cayman Rise just south of Cuba. You can see the ship's location here: http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=8231
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Brian Arbic featured in Michigan Today article
From Ghana to Michigan, a teacher and student meet again.
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Dave Lund's recent article in Nature Geoscience was highlighted in the University Record.
New study by a University of Michigan paleoclimatologist and two colleagues suggests that the deep ocean was not an important source of carbon during glacial times.
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Matt Domeier's article on the travels of Gondwana was highligted in the September 6 edition of EOS.
Drawing on new high-quality paleomagnetic data, Domeier et al. describe the movements of Gondwana that, until its separation from Laurasia 200 million years ago, formed the southern half of Pangea.
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National Geographic spoke with Philip Gingerich regarding his work in the Bighorn Basin in Wyoming
National Geographic spoke with Philip Gingerich regarding his work in the Bighorn Basin in Wyoming, and its relation to the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a global spike in temperature 56 million years ago.
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Steve Kesler says there's little chance of finding gold in southern Michigan
More profitable gold mines are located in the Upper Peninsula, he says.
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David Lund published a paper in Paleoceanography that was recently highlighted in EOS
David Lund and colleagues published a paper in Paleoceanography that was recently highlighted in EOS, on constraining deep-ocean circulation during glacial times using a new tracer budget technique.
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New Identity for Geological Sciences
At their July meeting, the University of Michigan Regents approved our new name: the Department of Geological Sciences is now the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.
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Job opportunities in geoscience careers are increasing
A recent article in Nature describes the range of job opportunities and the growing need for geoscientists in the decades ahead.
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U-M Ranked #1 Geology Graduate Program
The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences has the top ranked geology graduate program in the country, according to US News & World Report. The U-M geochemistry and paleontology graduate programs also received top 5 rankings nationally.
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San Francisco Bay mercury tied to historic mining
UPI quoted Joel Blum, John D. MacArthur Professor of Geological Sciences, on his study of mercury contamination in San Francisco Bay, as saying, "This is the first study to track mercury directly from source to sediment to food web."
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Understanding the auminum industry’s environmental and economic footprint
Steve Kesler was interviewed about the aluminum industry and its environmental impact on Worldview (WBEZ, Chicago), after a caustic red sludge from an aluminum-processing facility flooded parts of Western Hungary.
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Museum's new whale skeleton represents decades of research
The new whale skeleton display at the University of Michigan Exhibit Museum of Natural History represents decades of paleontological detective work
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A World Without Ice shortlisted for Royal Society Prize for Science Books 2010
Henry Pollack's A World Without Ice was nominated for the UK Royal Society Prize for Science Books 2010. The judges said: “A thoughtful and refreshing book that brings ice to life.
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Tiny clays curb big earthquakes
Ben van der Pluijm, Anja Schleicher and colleagues reported on the San Andreas, California earthquake zone in the July issue of Geology. See also the US News and World Report article, the UPI article and the Scientific American article and podcast.
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Ecosystem change key to glacial cyclicity
Daniel Horton and Chris Poulsen present their late Palaeozoic ice age simulations in the August issue of Nature Geoscience. See also the NSF Discovery article.
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