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Jan Tullis ’65, A Pioneer In Studying Rock Deformation, Dies
21 September 2024The Providence Journal Jan Tullis was born Julia Ann Conway on February 21, 1943, in Swedesboro, NJ, but spent half of her childhood growing up in Weston, CT. She died…
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Kyra Bornong ’17 Awarded Geophysical Institute Schaible Fellowship At The University Of Alaska Fairbanks
17 September 2024UAF Geophysical Institute GI: Tell us a bit about yourself (Hometown, prior education, whether you are new to Alaska) Kyra Bornong: I grew up in Minnesota and studied geology at…
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Leigh Stearns ’99 Helps Explain The Rrumble That Echoed Around The World For Nine Days
12 September 2024The Washington Post The strange rumble was detected mid-September last year. An odd seismic signal appeared at scientific stations around the globe, but it didn’t look like the busy squiggles…
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Mattison Shreero ’22 Presents The Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Deer Santuccimeryx At Agate Fossil Beds National Monument
22 July 2024KCSR-KBPY Radio The Fourth Saturday Summer Speaker Series continues at Agate Fossil Beds National Monument this Saturday, July 27th at 1pm. Learn about the Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Deer of…
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Marion E. “Pat” Bickford ’54 Passes Away
27 June 2024Eagle News Online Marion E. “Pat” Bickford passed away June 23, 2024. […] He attended Carleton College in Northfield, MN, where he met his adored wife of 69 years, Elizabeth…
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The Washington Post Federal authorities on Thursday named a man with a long criminal history as a suspect in the killing of two women, one of whom was Carleton geology…
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Bess Koffman ’04 Awarded Tenure In Geology At Colby College
19 February 2024Colby News On the recommendation of President David A. Greene, five faculty members have recently been promoted and granted tenure.[…] Geochemist and climate scientist Bess Koffman has a vibrant research…
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Carleton Geology Alumni Are Commercializing Carbon Sequestration Taking Advantage Of Existing Industrial Processes
9 January 2024As I have been editing this web page I’ve been intrigued to see that two Carleton Geology alumni, Sean McCauley ’89 (with Geology faculty member Dan Maxbauer and biology graduate…
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Brianna Rick ’14 Analyses The Chaos Canyon (Rocky Mountain National Park) Hillslope Failure
8 December 2023The Chaos Canyon landslide, which collapsed on the afternoon of 28 June 2022 in Rocky Mountain National Park, presents an opportunity to evaluate instabilities within alpine regions faced with a…
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Bess Koffman ’04 Finds That Collaboration Between Women Helps Close The Gender Gap In Ice Core Science
27 November 2023Phys.Org A Perspective article published today in Nature Geoscience tackles the longstanding issue of gender representation in science, focusing on the field of ice core science. Prior work has shown that despite progress toward gender parity…