Posts tagged with “Departmental News” (All posts)
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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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Fall field trip to South Dakota
12 November 2022We were planning to head to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan this fall, but a snowstorm in the UP had us pivot to the warmest nearby field trip destination, which…
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This summer Dan Maxbauer is working with Carleton students studying carbon dioxide removal through enhanced weathering in agriculture. Enhanced weathering aims to accelerate natural carbon dioxide removal through mineral weathering by…
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Emily Ross ’17 recently published a paper in Geophysical Research Letters with co-authors Jacqueline Reber (Iowa State) and Sarah Titus (Carleton) about how fault creep could influence landscape development. The…
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Former fifth-year interns Natalie Hummel and Seth Waag-Swift co-authored a paper with Professor Sarah Titus in the Journal of Geophysical Research. The paper focuses on the deformation of rocks in northern Iceland due to a transform fault. The authors use statistical tools developed by Joshua Davis, Lecturer in Math/Stats and CS. View the entire article.
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Geology seniors present their comps projects
11 April 2022Our seventeen senior geology majors presented their comps projects on Saturday 9 April. Their 12-minute talks ranged widely: from local clay and clams and prairie soils to borehole analyses to…
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Despite the pandemic, (most of) the Geology of National Parks class was able to visit Death Valley over mid-term break during winter term. Alum Michael Smith ’99 tagged along, too.
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Chloé Fandel joins the department
24 March 2022Our newest faculty member moved to Minnesota after finishing her graduate work in Arizona. She is teaching Geomorphology, Hydrogeology, and Introduction to Environmental Geology. Welcome, Chloé!
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