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  • In Search of Lost Time - January 24th 2022 at the RBML
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  • In Search of Lost Time - January 24th 2022 at the RBML
    In Search of Lost Time

    In Search of Lost Time, an exhibit by Dr. William Guenthner, will show how the evolution of our understanding of the Earth has changed over the past few hundred years.

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    Jack Albright and Dr. Patricia Gregg develop new technique to forecast volcanic eruptions!

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    SESE Annual Field Trip

    Professor Stephen Altaner leads 45 students to Northern Indiana to explore the Kentland Impact Site.

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  • University of Arizona's Biosphere2

    New $1 Million Grant Awarded to Geology Prof. Jennifer Druhan and co-PIs!

    Associate Professor Druhan received the exciting news that NSF will fund a new 1M collaborative research grant entitled “Collaborative Research: Concentration - Ratio - Discharge (C-R-Q) Relationships of Transient Water-Age Distributions”. UIUC will lead the project, together with PIs at The University of Arizona and Cornell University. The multi-disciplinary research team will combine...
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  • Subduction of the Juan Fernandez Ridge crest

    Why are the Andes Mountains abnormally tall?

    In a new paper in Nature Communications, former graduate student Jiashun Hu (now at the Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China), Professor Lijun Liu and California Institute of Technology professor ...
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    UIUC Geologists at the Grand Canyon!

    Dr. Olivia Thurston (PhD -UIUC, now at U. of Indiana) and her advisor Dr. William Guenthner have been working to explore questions about the timing of the rocks in the Grand Canyon, using their helium isotope technique to date these samples. Check out the story from The College of LAS!    
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  • Prof. Alison Anders on SciPod!!
    Check out Geology Department Professor Alison Anders talking about her work on how critical zone soils form in glaciated landscapes! Listen to...
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  • Graduate Student Hannah Veldhuizen Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!!
    The Department of Geology is very pleased to announce that doctoral student Hannah Veldhuizen has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) graduate research fellowship!  Her research focuses on developing new geochemical methods that can be used to unravel the complex behavior...
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  • Robby Goldman (Dept. of Geology) Awarded OSPA for 2021 AGU Presentation
    Robby Goldman, NSF Graduate Research Fellow and PhD Candidate in the Department of Geology, recently received an Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA) from the American Geophysical Union for his oral presentation given during the 2021 AGU Fall Meeting, titled “Examining residents’...
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