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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In Search of Lost TimeIn 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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Eruption ForecastingJack Albright and Dr. Patricia Gregg develop new technique to forecast volcanic eruptions!
SESE Annual Field TripProfessor Stephen Altaner leads 45 students to Northern Indiana to explore the Kentland Impact Site.
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 ...
The exhibit, In Search of Lost Time, led by Geology Assistant Professor William Guenthner, will explore how the chronology of the Earth was established, with a focus on six themes that gradually led to the consensus view that the Earth is roughly 4.55 billion years of age. This age is so vast that Earth’s history seems to stretch back in time by an almost inconceivable amount, but...
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- Check out Geology Department Professor Alison Anders talking about her work on how critical zone soils form in glaciated landscapes! Listen to...
- 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...
- 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’...