From its opening in 1909, Guyot Hall has been noted for its displays of iconic natural history specimens. 

Pete Briger ’86 and his wife, Devon Briger, have made a major gift in the Venture Forward campaign, supporting the construction of the environmental studies building at Princeton University. Their gift to name Briger Hall will strengthen and expand Princeton’s science and scholarship regarding some of humanity’s most pressing and interconnected challenges, including climate change, biodiversity, water resources, energy and infectious disease.

Graduate Student Will Eaton received an Outstanding Student Presentation Award from the American Geological Union (AGU) for his presentation at the Fall 2024 AGU meeting.

A recent study describes the discovery of a new photochemical process that generates the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N₂O) in aquatic ecosystems. Without the help of the usual microorganisms that are known to produce N₂O, this abiotic mechanism, termed “photochemodenitrification,” occurs in both fresh and marine surface waters and is driven by sunlight in the presence of inorganic nitrogen. Elizabeth Leon-Palmero, a postdoctoral scholar in the The Ward Lab at the Department of Geosciences, is lead author on the paper, which has just been published in the journal Science.

The globe is gone. The enormous model of Earth that for over 60 years has greeted all visitors to Guyot Hall, was disassembled and sent to a new home at InfoAge Science and History Museums and Learning Center in Wall, New Jersey.

Princeton geoscientists Xinning Zhang and Ashley Maloney have discovered that a geology technique shows promise in detecting cancer-like cells. If their preliminary results bear out, they may have identified a new signature for cancer, which could mean earlier diagnosis and better outcomes. Their work appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Geosciences' 2016 alumnus, Brenhin Keller, and 1996 alumna, Suzan van der Lee, honored at the American Geophysical Union 2024 Fall Meeting on December 11, 2024.

Professor Gabriel Vecchi, Knox Taylor Professor of Geosciences, Director at High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) and Deputy Director at Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System (CIMES), accepted his Fellowship at the American Geophysical Union 2024 Fall Meeting in Washington D.C. on December 11, 2024. 

The Department of Geosciences and Princeton University congratulates Dr. Elena Watts on successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis: “Time as a Symptom: Geochronologic and Geochemical Insights Into Intrusive Silicic Magmatism" on Friday, November 15, 2024.