Earth and Environmental Sciences

Research Highlights

2013

John Tarduno speaks with 1370 Connections about his recent RMSC "Science on the Edge" Lecture entitled "Crocodiles at the Poles: Viewing the Past and Future Ice-free Arctic"

2012

John Kessler - CBS News: Bacteria sucked up 200,000 tons of oil after BP spill

Rare meteorites created in violent celestrial collision

"Top of the World" - Undergrads discuss their experience in the High Canadian Arctic during the Summer 2012 Field Season - Rochester Review

Prof. Gautam Mitra received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Graduate Education

New Faculty John Kessler reports on naturally occurring bacteria that consumed oil and natural gas thay spilled into the Gulf og Mexico during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon event

Vasilii Petrenko discusses glacial ice and ice core records on "Perspectives" with Curt Smith at WXXI

John Tarduno weighs in on "What if Earth's Magnetic Poles Flip?"

2011

New Assistant Professor, Vasilii Petrenko, discusses his ice core research on WXXI

Prof. Ebinger discusses Afar rift in Science News

Asish Basu discusses the Rajmahal-Bengal-Sylhet Traps, selected as the June 2011 LIP (large igneous province) of the month (See also http://www.largeigneousprovinces.org/)

Vasilii Petrenko discusses his recent research in Antarctica with NPR's The World Today

2010

Carmala Garzione awarded 2010 Goergen award for Excellence in Teaching

Rochester Alum is interviewed as part of a National Geographic Special - Clash of the Continents: The End of Man

Rochester Alum Sara Pruss (Class of '99), now Assistant Professor at Smith College, was asked to be a part of a National Geographic Special, to air this weekend, August 1, at 12 noon (EDT). "Clash of the Continents: Part 2 - End of Man" discusses what Earth may be like 250 million years in the future. Sara teaches Invertebrate Paleontology and Marine Geology at Smith College and her research focuses on Cambro-Ordovician carbonates and the end-Permian mass extinction.

John Tarduno: Oldest Measurement of Earth's Magnetic Field Reveals History of Battle Between Sun and Earth for Our Atmosphere

2009

Carmala Garzione is chosen as a New York Academy of Sciences Award Winner

Cindy Ebinger: New Study in Geology Uses Satellite Imagery to Identify Active Magma Systems in East Africa's Rift Valley

Cindy Ebinger: Scientists Install Seismic Sensors in Galapagos to Generate First 3-D Images of a Hotspot Magma Plumbing System

John Tarduno and Cognitive Scientists Use Eye-Tracking Technology to Learn What Makes a Great Geologist

John Tarduno: Simulations and Ancient Magnetism Suggest Mantle Plumes May Bend Deep Beneath Earth's Crust

Asish Basu: Fledgling Mantle Plume May Be Cause of African Volcano's Unique Lava

John Tarduno: Ancient Turtle Migrated from Asia to America Over a Tropical Arctic