New Zealand’s Akaroa Volcano has been the focus of decades of research by geologists seeking to understand its eruptive history, which lasted 9-8 Ma. Some of Akaroa’s most intriguing features include a radial dike swarm and several lava domes exposed along the high-topography “crater rim” of the volcano’s eroded central summit region. Using a combination of field and petrographic observations, a...
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In a new paper published in Nature Communications, Gary Parker, Jim Best and Julia Cisneros (former PhD student) are part of a team that reports on how damming on the Huang He (Yellow) River, China, may increase the risk of flooding from moderate to large floods. The study, led by Hongbo Ma (UC Irvine) and Jeff Nittrouer (Texas Tech; former postdoc at Illinois) involved researchers from...
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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- 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’...