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Bretwood Higman ’99 and Noah Finnegan ’99 featured in New York Times for research on Alaskan tsunami risks
11 May 2026Recent Carleton Geology alumni Bretwood Higman ’99 and Noah Finnegan ’99 were featured in The New York Times for their critical work on landslide-generated tsunamis in Alaska. As climate change causes glaciers to retreat and permafrost to thaw, mountain…
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Dan Maxbauer and alumni publish carbon dioxide removal paper in Frontiers in Climate
22 January 2026Dan Maxbauer, assistant professor of geology, published a paper with several alumni in a special section on carbon dioxide removal in the journal Frontiers in Climate. Alumni co-authors include Ella Milliken ’22, Jaren…
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Chloé Fandel, assistant professor of geology, has received a subaward for a project led by Peter Kang, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Minnesota. Funded by the…
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As part of the installation of Carleton’s district-scale geothermal system, a group of faculty, staff, and alumni designed a scientific experiment monitoring its efficiency. The results have now been published…
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Chloé Fandel leads students through water quality research in Driftless Region of Minnesota
23 January 2025Chloé Fandel’s research in the Driftless region was highlighted this week by the College. The field work last summer was part of a Keck Geology Consortium project and her ongoing…
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Tsunami researchers Lydia Staisch ’08 and Brett Hanley x’25 featured in Seattle Times Outside link
3 December 2024Lydia Staisch ’08, from the United States Geological Survey, is part of a research group investigating past evidence of tsunamis along the Oregon coast. She brought Brett Hanley x’25 along for her research last summer. Their work was just featured in an article in the Seattle Times.
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Rudy Molinek ’15 Receives Award from National Academies
31 October 2024Rudy Molinek ’15, PhD candidate in geoscience at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is a 2024 recipient of an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications, in the…
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Robert Tipping ’81 appointed Minnesota State Geologist and Director of Minnesota Geological Survey
17 October 2024Tipping has been appointed the new Minnesota State Geologist and Director of the Minnesota Geological Survey (MGS). He is the tenth director since the MGS started in 1872 and the…
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Chloé Fandel Awarded NSF Grant
3 October 2024Chloé Fandel, assistant professor of geology, has received a National Science Foundation Empowering Broader Academic Capacity and Education grant. Her project, “A synoptic survey of springs in the Driftless Area to…
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Structural Geology students visit the Salton Sea
6 February 2024Sarah and Jon took 25 students to the Salton Sea over mid-term break for the Structural Geology field trip. Despite the threat from two atmospheric rivers, the weather was generally…
