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Brandon Schmandt, an assistant professor in the University of New Mexico’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, earned the Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal) for Outstanding Achievement presented by The Geological Society of America (GSA). “I ...

A new reservoir of hot, partially molten rock located beneath the Yellowstone supervolcano has been imaged for the first time giving scientists a new perspective of the volcanic plumbing system under the supervolcano.

Researchers from the University of New Mexico and Northwestern University report evidence for potentially oceans worth of water deep beneath the United States. Though not in the familiar liquid form – the ingredients for water are bound up in rock ...

Brandon Schmandt, an assistant professor in the University of New Mexico’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, was awarded the 2013 Keiiti Aki Young Scientist Award presented by the Seismology Section of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) at ...