Gordon Bromley led the team that discovered a sample from East Antarctica that contains the highest concentration of helium-3 (a variety of helium formed from cosmogenic radiation) ever recorded in a terrestrial sample. Gordon’s full story is on the cosmognosis blog.
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Recent B.S. graduate and incoming M.S. student Jillian Pelto is making waves in the world of using art to communicate science. Her recent recognition comes from her inspiring illustrations of climatic data in a new NOAA report. A full story is on the UMaine news page.
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Kimberley Rain Miner, Ph.D. student in the UMaine School of Earth and Climate Sciences, was selected as a Switzer Environmental Fellow by the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation. Miner will add her Switzer fellowship to a remarkable list of awards and grants she has received for her research, including a Fulbright Award, a SMART grant […]
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The history of the Mongol empire captures people’s attention. In recent years, paleoclimate research has shed more light on some of the military decisions of that time. Most notably, the changing climate of the 1200s may have resulted first in the spread of grasslands, allowing the consequent spread of the Mongol empire. Later, drying could […]
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The 2016 awards from the School of Earth and Climate Sciences were announced on Friday May 6th. Congratulations to: Zachary Mason (Kupfer Field Camp Scholarship, Golden Field Camp Scholarship, George H. Stone Award, Outstanding Senior Award) Marissa Bovie (Golden Field Camp Scholarship, Edward Sturgis Grew Scholarship, Outstanding Senior Award) Adam Rogers (Golden Field Camp Award, […]
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Mineralogical Magazine, one of the top international scientific journals for mineralogy, has just published the official citation and acceptance texts for the Collins Medal presented to Research Professor Edward Grew at the award ceremony in Edinburgh, Scotland, in July 2015. The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland awards the Collins Medal each year to […]
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See details here: http://www.egu.eu/awards-medals/hans-oeschger/2016/paul-a-mayewski/
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See details here: https://umaine.edu/news/blog/2016/04/05/putnam-blazes-ice-age-career-path/
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Kimberley Miner has been awarded a year-long Fulbright research grant to work in partnership with researchers at the University of Ottawa on glacial pollutant monitoring related to her dissertation. “The mandate of Fulbright Canada is to enhance mutual understanding between the people of Canada and the people of the United States of America by providing […]
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Steven Spreitzer, a SECS master’s student and teaching assistant has been awarded funding for his research from the Geological Society of America through the Graduate Student Research Grant. For his master’s thesis, Steven is using a radiometric dating technique, called in-situ monazite dating, in order to find the ages of metamorphic rocks from the Larsemann […]
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Spring Meeting April 1, 2016 Location: Bryand Global Science Center University of Maine Orono, Maine Agenda 1:00pm Registration 1:00-2:30pm Poster Presentation, 2nd Floor Bryand Global Science Center and School of Earth and Climate Sciences Open House 2:30-4:00 Student Oral Presentations, 100 Nutting Hall 4:00 pm Keynote Speaker, 100 Nutting Hall Katherine Allen: School of Earth and Climate Sciences, University of Maine […]
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The University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences Geology Club recently returned from its Spring Break field trip to California. The trip, led by staff advisers Dr. Alicia (Cici) Cruz-Aribe and Marty Yates, traveled round trip to San Francisco, visited Big Sur, the Tiburon Peninsula, and Point Reyes, and toured the Monterrey Aquarium. […]
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Congratulations to Bob Morton, winner of the Geology Club 50-50 raffle! The raffle is in support of the Geology Club’s trip to coastal California over spring break.
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Sean Smith, a leader of the NSF-funded New England Sustainability Initiative, has been developing tools to predict coastal pollution in Maine. Sean, along with collaborators in SECS, SMS, and at the Mitchell Center at UMaine, and further afield at UNH, College of the Atlantic, and Texas A&M, presented their work at the AGU fall meeting […]
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Holly Thomas, a SECS undergraduate, is part of a team investigating the East Antarctic ice sheet history. Others on the team include Research Assistant Professor Gordon Bromley, Ph.D. student Margaret Jackson, UC Berkeley Professor Greg Balco, and Chris Simmons. Holly is sending back periodic updates of their trip and the science. Her posts are hosted […]
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The current issue (v. 53, part 2) of the prominent mineralogical journal The Canadian Mineralogist has published an issue in honor of Ed Grew, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Many papers in the issue come from colleagues with whom Ed has worked over the years. The introduction contains a great summary of Ed’s […]
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An article from Medill Reports Chicago this summer featured the Mongolia glacial geology field work of Aaron Putnam and Ph.D. student Peter Strand. The goal of the field work is to constrain the timing and spatial extent of glaciation in the region.
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A recent article in the Spotlight section of the Earth Science Women’s network features the School’s new Grew Assistant Professor Cici Cruz-Uribe. The article describes her research and her past and anticipated mentoring roles. We look forward to her work in support of gender and other forms of diversity.
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In recent years, one of Ed Grew’s growing interests has been in the field of mineral evolution. This fairly new field explores when and where different mineral species have appeared over time, with a natural but not exclusive focus on terrestrial minerals. A recent Quanta Magazine article quoting Ed Grew and describing some of his […]
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Congratulations to the recipients of the Spring 2015 student awards! Trefethan Scholarship Justin Leavitt Zachary Mason Kupfer Field Camp Award Nicholas Richmond Golden Field Camp Scholarship Sydney Eckert Jason Lively James O’Neil Edward Sturgis Grew Award Nicholas Richmond George H. Stone Award Abigail Bradford Eliza Kane Golden Professional Development Award Zachary Mason Outstanding Senior Award […]
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