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Rudy Molinek ’15 Receives Award from National Academies

31 October 2024

Rudy 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 2024

Tipping 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 2024

Chloé 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 2022

We 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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Maxbauer group busy with Northfield field work this summer

6 July 2022

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 and Sarah Titus publish paper about models of fault creep

4 July 2022

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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Natalie Hummel ’20 and Seth Waag-Swift ’17 publish paper about Iceland tectonics

29 April 2022

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 2022

Our 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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Geology of National Parks students go on field trip to Death Valley

24 March 2022

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 2022

Our 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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