Notes from the Field

This article was written by Kitta MacPherson for Rutgers Today, and can be accessed here.This close-up view of an astronaut’s bootprint in the lunar soil was photographed on July 20, 1969, during the Apollo 11 mission, when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin walked on the Moon while...

Robert Kopp, a professor of earth and planetary sciences, criticized the U.S. withdrawal from a key international agreement that has been in place for 34 years and seeks to limit climate change. “It sends the message that the U.S. is not interested in having evidence-based policy,” Kopp told the...

This article was written by Kitta MacPherson and can be accessed by clicking here. A Rutgers researcher and collaborators link strange anomalies to Earth’s molten beginnings – and its unique habitability For decades, scientists have been baffled by two enormous, enigmatic structures buried deep...

The ocean floor holds secrets stretching back millions of years. Beneath that surface, the top 10 meters of sediment contain a detailed record of how land, sea, and atmosphere have interacted over the past 1 million years. Scientists have been studying this record using piston cores since the...

Congratulations to all of our 2025 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. Mike Di Maio has been...

Medford, NJ — The Paleogene Earth Perturbations–U.S. Atlantic Coastal Plain (PEP-US) project is set to return to Medford, New Jersey, from September 22 to October 3 to drill two new scientific boreholes targeting one of Earth’s most dramatic climate events: the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum...