Research Scientist Ed Grew is in his 25th year at UMaine, a milestone that the University will mark formally in the spring.  Below is a letter recognizing Ed’s contributions to the University: The Department of Earth Sciences welcomes the opportunity to recognize the 25 years of service of Edward Grew to the University of Maine.  […]

At 5:44pm on January 12, the University of Maine’s new seismometer began to pick up shaking from a distant earthquake event.  For the next hour the incoming signal saturated the display as seismic waves passed by the station.  Our seismograph had detected the magnitude 7.0 Haitian earthquake which is responsible for tremendous loss of human […]

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), a highly regarded organization with an international profile, has selected UMaine for membership. UCAR, with its associated National Center for Atmospheric Research, works to create collaborative research related to the Earth’s atmosphere and related systems. UCAR selected UMaine because of the international prominence of the Climate Change Institute […]

In Fall 2009, the Department of Earth Sciences instituted a new curriculum and revised its requirements for the B.S. and B.A. degrees.  These changes were made with the three primary goals of (1) increasing the climate change, surficial processes, and societal relevance content, (2) offering a wider variety of elective courses, and (3) providing more […]

Funded by a grant of $457,584 from the Major Research Instrumentation program of the National Science Foundation and additional support from the Office of the Vice President for Research at UMaine, the Department of Earth Sciences has recently installed a new scanning electron microscope (SEM) with several specialized accessories to support research and education in […]

Professors Ed Grew, Brenda Hall, Scott Johnson, Andrei Kurbatov, Kirk Maasch and Paul Mayewski were all informed that the National Science Foundation will fund some of their research proposals through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. Grew’s proposal ($ 190,718) focuses on boron-rich minerals and boron isotopes in deep-seated crustal rocks from East Antarctica, and […]

Scott Johnson, Professor of Tectonics and Structural Geology in the UMaine Department of Earth Sciences, has been elected Fellow of the Geological Society of America (GSA) for his outstanding research, teaching and service contributions to the broad ?eld of Earth Sciences. The status of Fellow is given to only about 2 percent of the GSA’s […]