Notes from the Field

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...

Written by Holly Valgardson. I am holding a very large peridotite mantle xenolith. I am a second-year master's student working with Dr. Ben Black in the Earth and Planetary Science department. This past July 2024, I had the amazing opportunity to conduct ten days of fieldwork in Lanzarote, Canary...

Thomas Ambrose at his home in Florida. Photo by Doug McDonough. This article was written by Jason Nark and originally posted on rutgersfoundation.org.   World traveler Thomas Ambrose, who earned a graduate degree in 1951, supports the nation’s oldest geology museum at Rutgers. A pack of Cub Scouts...

This article was originally written by Kitta MacPherson and published on rutgers.edu. Rutgers-led researchers show that geological records offer a new way to make storm predictions in a climate-changed world A Rutgers University-New Brunswick-led research team employing an emerging technique to detect...