Based on the findings of a new study conducted by Prof. Michael Oppenheimer, and other Princeton researchers, rapidly-intensifying (RI) events are already more hazardous than normal tropical cyclones (TCs) and future climate warming causes large increases in the likelihood of RI close to land.
In the fall of 2023, Prof. Xinning Zhang, Geosciences research specialist Shannon Haynes, and Geosciences lab manager Danielle Schmitt worked with the S.C.R.A.P (Sustainable Composting Research at Princeton) lab in providing a freshmen seminar “FRS 115: Decomposing: The Science of Composting.” Students investigated the effect of adding compostable serviceware on the compost maturity. This recent PAW article explains more about this collaboration between S.C.R.A.P. and the department.
“First, baseball analytics can show us what’s happening,” Haumacher told The Daily Princetonian during a sit down interview.... After arriving at Princeton, one of Haumacher’s first contacts was Adam Maloof. Maloof and Haumacher hit the ground running, placing advertisements around campus in search of student leaders who were interested in data analysis and willing to help the Princeton baseball team.
The Department of Geosciences and Princeton University congratulates Dr. Kewei Zhao on successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis: “Calcium Dynamics in Marine Environment: Calcium Speciation in Seawater and Transformation of Amorphous Calcium Carbonate" on Wednesday, December 20, 2023.
The Department of Geosciences and Princeton University congratulates Dr. Jianshu Duan on successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis: “Abiotic Transformation of Terrestrial Natural Organic Matter Probed by Multimodal Spectroscopy" on Tuesday, December 19, 2023.
At the northern and southern tips of our planet are tiny bubbles of air trapped for millions of years within polar ice. These microscopic time capsules hold a record of Earth’s atmosphere — and thus its climate history. (Higgins, Shackleton, Bender mention)
On December 12, 2023, the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 401 departed from Amsterdam to begin a two-month scientific journey to the Gibraltar Strait. Its mission is to uncover these climate secrets buried beneath hundreds of meters of water and rock. Onboard will be Harry Hess postdoctoral research fellow and paleoclimate scientist Udara Amarathunga.
This year’s The Smilodon: The Newsletter of the Department of Geosciences now available online. Featured article: In Memoriam: W. Jason Morgan - October 10, 1935 - July 31, 2023
Listen to the cacophony of seismic activity that ripped a 4km-long fissure in the Reykjanes peninsula has been turned into audible clips; features Suzan van der Lee, a professor at Northwestern and GEO alumna, who received her Ph.D. at Princeton in 1996.
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The Department of Geosciences congratulates the graduating Class of 2023 and all the 2022 - 23 Ph.D. recipients.
Congratulations to Dr. Srijan B. Das on successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis "Magnetoseismology of the Sun and Inferences of Solar Rotation Using Normal Mode Coupling" on Monday, May 22, 2023.
In April-May 2023, Barbara Romanowicz was hosted by the department of Geosciences as a Hess Distinguished Guest.
Congratulations to Dr. Allison K. Hogikyan on successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis "Oxygen, Carbon, Heat: Explorations in Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction" on Thursday, May 4, 2023.
Congratulations to Dr. Devan M. Nisson on successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis "Hydrogeochemical Support for Microbial Habitability in an Ancient, Hypersaline, Thermal, and Radiogenic Subsurface in South Africa" on Tuesday, May 2, 2023.