• 2020-02-12 - This week Dr. Bruce Fouke was awarded the 2020 Whitman Fellowship at the Marine Biological Laboratory and the 2020 Yellowstone Superintendent's International Award.
  • 2020-01-30 - Geology Graduate Student Minfei Chen Wins the Outstanding Student Presentation Award at the 2019 AGU Meeting
  • 2020-01-27 - $2.5 million software package renewed with Department of Geology and ISGS.
  • 2020-01-24 - Dr. Easterling talks about the benefits of curiosity-driven and convergent research at a talk at NHB.
  • 2020-01-22 - In a paper in Nature Sustainability, Jim Best and colleagues lift the veil on sand mining in the Mekong River, and examine its environmental effects and sustainability
  • 2019-10-30 -   On October 10th, the department welcomed Dr. James R. Baroffio (Ph.D. ‘64) to campus, and presented to him the Department of Geology Alumni Achievement Award for 2019.  Jim was born and raised in a coal mining town in Pennsylvania.  He was the only person in his family to attend college, receiving his Bachelor’s degree at the College of Wooster, Ohio, in 1954. ...
  • 2019-10-11 -   The weather is getting colder in town! That means Flannel Friday! Show your geology spirit by wearing flannel!
  • 2019-10-10 -   Congratulations to our recent Geology Department graduates!
  • 2019-09-25 - Using a new computer modeling technique normally applied to weather and climate, PhD student Jack Albright and his advisor Prof. Patricia Gregg have developed a method to forecast volcanic eruptions. Beyond their potential for destruction, volcanic eruptions can have wide-spread impacts on society, especially for air travel, making a forecast of an eruption increasingly valuable. But this can be...
  • 2019-09-24 -   The Department of Geology in the School of Earth, Society, and Environment (https://earth.illinois.edu/) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the flagship campus of the University of Illinois System, seeks an outstanding scholar with expertise in Remote Sensing. Applications are invited from candidates whose research falls...
  • 2019-08-27 - Professor Stephen Altaner led over 45 students and staff on the 2019 Annual SESE Field Trip. Participants were able to collect shattercones at the Kentland Impact Site, the site where U of I alumnus Robert Dietz showed that these structures were a result of meteorite impacts. They also visited Williamsport Falls, the highest free-falling waterfall in Indiana, and Portland Arch, a natural bridge...
  • 2019-08-25 - Ralph L. Langenheim Jr., Professor Emeritus of stratigraphy and paleontology, passed away on August 3rd, 2019, at the age of 97. Ralph was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 26, 1922, to Ralph and Myrtle Langenheim; he is survived by his wife Casey, children, step-children, and their children. Ralph earned his Bachelor’s degree at the University of Tulsa, a Master’s degree at the University of...
  • 2019-08-23 - Anyone who thinks space is the final frontier should familiarize themselves with the research of Lijun Liu, professor of geology and a GeoThrust Professorial Scholar at the University of Illinois. He knows that there’s a lot we don’t understand right beneath our own feet, in terms of the geodynamics of Earth’s interior. Liu’s insights, with help from high-performance computers, are...
  • 2019-08-22 - Graduate students Julia Cisneros and Aida Guhlincozzi developed a new program this summer, bringing 30 middle school girls to campus to participate in several geoscience experiments, including mapping volcanic debris on ‘Mars’, flying drones, and talking with scientists at NASA! See the LAS story here.
  • 2019-08-16 - The department’s Eryops skeleton has returned to the Natural History Building and now has a home outside the “Geology row” faculty offices on the 3rd floor!  This plaster replica graced the second floor north foyer for many decades.  It was removed to make way for the major NHB renovation (2014-2017).  Prior to brining it back into NHB, the fragile skeleton was cleaned and repaired...