Notes from the Field

This article was written by Kitta MacPherson on February 3, 2025. The original article can be found on Rutgers Today.   Insight by Rutgers professor could aid the understanding of how and when life arose A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early...

This article was originally posted on rutgers.edu and can be viewed by clicking here. A site in northern Kenya has yielded 1.5-million-year-old fossils. Louise N. Leakey Discovery by international team, including Rutgers researcher, proves theory that some ancient hominins were neighbors More than a...

This article was originally posted on rutgers.edu and written by Kitta MacPherson. Published October 29, 2024. An international team of geoscientists led by a volcanologist at Rutgers University-New Brunswick has discovered that, contrary to present scientific understanding, ancient volcanoes...

Congratulations to all of our 2024 Undergraduate Student Award recipients! The Department of Earth and Planetary Science is celebrating its many talented students. We are super proud of all of their accomplishments, and are excited to announce this year’s award winners. Amelia Ascione and Bryan...

Written by Ken Miller, John Schmelz, and Lisa Auermuller. Addressing human carbon dioxide release of 10 billion tons of carbon (= 36.7 billion tons of Carbon dioxide) per year will require multiple mitigation approaches, including geological storage (Pachauri et al., 2014). The technology exists to...

Written by Crystal Pletka, Ph.D. School of Ice Participants and Leaders at Eliot Glacier Observation Site.This summer I was lucky enough to attend the School of Ice at Oregon State University. The School of Ice is a workshop that provides a variety of educators at minority serving institutions the chance to...