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Bess Koffman ’04 Awarded Tenure In Geology At Colby College
19 February 2024Colby News On the recommendation of President David A. Greene, five faculty members have recently been promoted and granted tenure.[…] Geochemist and climate scientist Bess Koffman has a vibrant research…
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Carleton Geology Alumni Are Commercializing Carbon Sequestration Taking Advantage Of Existing Industrial Processes
9 January 2024As I have been editing this web page I’ve been intrigued to see that two Carleton Geology alumni, Sean McCauley ’89 (with Geology faculty member Dan Maxbauer and biology graduate…
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Brianna Rick ’14 Analyses The Chaos Canyon (Rocky Mountain National Park) Hillslope Failure
8 December 2023The Chaos Canyon landslide, which collapsed on the afternoon of 28 June 2022 in Rocky Mountain National Park, presents an opportunity to evaluate instabilities within alpine regions faced with a…
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Bess Koffman ’04 Finds That Collaboration Between Women Helps Close The Gender Gap In Ice Core Science
27 November 2023Phys.Org A Perspective article published today in Nature Geoscience tackles the longstanding issue of gender representation in science, focusing on the field of ice core science. Prior work has shown that despite progress toward gender parity…
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Michael Ramage ’95 Announces New Course Merging Arts And Science At The University Of Cambridge
3 November 2023Disegno Promising to “merge arts and science”, the University of Cambridge has announced a new undergraduate course in design. The Design Tripos is the first new undergraduate course launched by…
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Kristin Bergmann ’04 Awarded Geobiology And Geomicrobiology Division of GSA Excellence Award
28 October 2023The Geological Society of America Dr. Kristin Bergmann is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on…
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Marcia Bjornerud ’83 Presents A Celebration Of Time
22 October 2023Wisconsin Academy Of Sciences The Wisconsin Academy partnered with the Wisconsin Science Festival for an event on October 22nd to celebrate the end of the Science Festival, and the end of…
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The Center For Environmental Health CEH announced a new Chief Executive Officer, Kizzy Charles-Guzman, who has taken the helm at the national nonprofit organization. CEH protects people from toxic chemicals…
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Brianna Rick ’14: Glacial Lake Outburst Floods Show Evolving Hazards In A Warming World
9 October 2023In August 2023, residents of Juneau, Alaska, watched as the Mendenhall River swelled to historic levels in a matter of hours. The rushing water undercut the riverbank and swallowed whole…
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Jennifer Macalady ’91 Searches For Life Where It Shouldn’t Exist
26 September 2023National Geographic via Penn State News UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A team of Penn State scientists is working to solve one of the world’s greatest unsolved mysteries: how life originated…