ESCI 322 – Going Across Southern California
Students in 322 go on a geology trip across southern California led by their professor Cin-Ty Lee and graduate student Hehe Jiang. This is a mid-term field trip that the […]
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Masiello award $1 million dollar grant from the Keck Foundation
Masiello award $1 million dollar grant from the Keck Foundation to engineer microbial biosensors for soil [Article]
SCIENCE: Biological signatures in clumped isotopes of O2
New faculty paper out! See Laurence Yeung’s paper on a new type of biological signature from the “clumping” of rare isotopes in O2, published in Science. [article] Abstract The abundances […]
Graduating senior Rachel Marzen receives NSF graduate research fellowship
Graduating senior Rachel Marzen receives NSF graduate research fellowship.
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The effects of internal heating and large scale variations on tectonic bi-stability in terrestrial planets
New student paper out! Matt Weller, publishing in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, finds that planets migrate through tectonic states over time as their surface temperatures change. A planet even […]
Earth Science ESCI 334 Field Trip
ESCI 334 is one of the Earth Science department’s capstone undergraduate courses. The field trip takes us to a location near San Ysidro, New Mexico, because of the easy access […]
RUGS Students Visit 1 Billion-year-old Serpentinite
How do you get water back into the mantle? Serpentinites, of course! The main source of water in magmatic arcs like the Cascades comes from altered oceanic lithosphere. Interaction of […]
New Micro-XRF installed – time to play!
A new micro-XRF element mapper (Horiba XGT 7000) has been installed on the third floor. This instrument excites atoms using a Rhodium x-ray source and measures the energy of the re-emitted x-rays […]