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Congratulation to the Class of 2018!
June 5, 2018

Congratulations to the Class of 2018 and to our 2017/18 Ph.D. Recipients.

Alec Getraer '19 Wins Gold Award at Research Day 2018
May 11, 2018

Alec Getraer '19 Wins Gold Award at Research Day 2018 for his poster titled "Centimeter Scale River Network Organization." Princeton Research Day is a celebration of the research and creative endeavors by students and non-faculty researchers at Princeton. Read more: https://researchday.princeton.edu/about

Congratulations to Dr. Darcy McRose for successfully defending her Ph.D. Thesis
May 3, 2018

The Department of Geosciences and Princeton University congratulates Dr. Darcy McRose on successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis: "Trace Metal Uptake and Use in Soil Diazotrophs and Marine Vibrios: Alternative Nitrogenases, Siderophores, and Quorum Sensing OR Efforts of the Very Small to Acquire the Very Scarce" on Friday, April 27, 2018.

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Geosciences Lecture by W. Jason Morgan on Princeton's YouTube Channel
April 18, 2018

The department is excited to announce that W. Jason Morgan's lecture “Fifty years of Plate Tectonics” is available for public viewing. Princeton University has set up a Department of Geosciences playlist on their YouTube channel.

Congratulations to Dr. Yajun Peng for successfully defending his Ph.D. Thesis
March 29, 2018
Geosciences Princeton University

The Department of Geosciences and Princeton University congratulates Dr. Yajun Peng on successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis: "Seismological Observations and Numerical Modeling of Slow Earthquakes" on Monday, March 26, 2018.

AOE Grad Jane Baldwin awarded an Outstanding Student Presentation Award at AGU's Fall Meeting
Jan. 30, 2018

Congratulations to AOS Graduate Student Jane Baldwin, a PEI-STEP fellow, who was awarded an Outstanding Student Presentation Award at AGU's Fall Meeting in December for her presentation on the research she's conducting under the fellowship.

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Predicting snowpack in the West before the first flake falls
Jan. 29, 2018
Morgan Kelly, Princeton Environmental Institute
In the American West, the anticipated water supply from snowpack — the high-elevation reservoir of snow that melts in the spring and summer — determines what, when and where farmers plant, and it helps urban water managers plan for the coming year’s water needs.
Frederik J. Simons, Professor of Geosciences
Mapping the Earth's Interior with a Fleet of Floating Seismic Robots by Frederik Simons
Jan. 22, 2018
Professor Frederik Simons will be presenting a lecture titled "Mapping the Earth's Interior with a Fleet of Floating Seismic Robots" at the Houston Museum of Natural Science on January, 30, 2018 starting at 6:30 PM.
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Even without El Nino last year, Scientist can see Earth keeps on warming
Jan. 18, 2018
Seth Borenstein, AP
Earth last year wasn't quite as hot as 2016's record-shattering mark, but it ranked second or third, depending on who was counting. Which year is first, second or third doesn't really matter much, said Princeton University climate scientist Gabriel Vecchi. What really matters is the clear warming trend, he said.

 

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Lake Montauk surrounded by thin sheets of ice in Montauk, N.Y., Photo/Julie Jacobson
Quick analysis findings: US cold snap was a freak of nature
Jan. 11, 2018
Seth Borenstein, AP
Consider this cold comfort: A quick study of the brutal American cold snap found that the Arctic blast really wasn’t global warming but a freak of nature. “It was very definitely strange, especially now,” said study co-author Prof. Gabriel Vecchi of Princeton University.
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Mapping the Evolution of Plate Tectonics
Jan. 9, 2018
Roland Pease, BBC Radio
The idea of mobile continents and continental drift was considered revolutionary before the 1960s. In this BBC radio show, science writer and broadcaster Roland Pease, highlights Geosciences' Prof. W. Jason Morgan *64 and mentor Prof. Harry Hess *32 as key players in the evolution of plate tectonics. Pease believes this type of scientific theoretical research transformed our understanding of the earth.
Ancient ice cores containing trapped gases drilled from the Allan Hills of Antarctica. (YUZHEN YAN)
Prof. John Higgins and others runner-up to "Science Magazine's Breakthrough of the Year”
Jan. 2, 2018
Paul Voosen, Science Magazine
Because of a record-shattering ice core recovery from Antarctica, Prof. John Higgins and other researchers from Princeton University and the University of Maine in Orono are listed as a runner-up to "Science Magazine's Breakthrough of the Year.” The research team's 2.7-million-year-old ice core is significant because of embedded tiny bubbles of greenhouse gases that could provided clues to what triggered Earth's ice ages, and is 1.7 million years older than any previous ice sample recovered.