Earth & Planetary Sciences

The New Mexico Space Grant Consortium (NMSGC) at New Mexico State University recently awarded Undergraduate Research Scholarships/Graduate Research Fellowships to six students at The University of New Mexico. The scholarships, totaling $50,000, will...

New research has identified that the storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the deep solid earth and its release into our atmosphere has a much greater role in shaping past climate variations than previously thought. The research, published recently in...

University of New Mexico Professor Emeritus Leslie McFadden is the 2017 recipient of the Kirk Bryan Award for Excellence awarded by the Geological Society of America (GSA) Annual Meeting & Exposition in Seattle, Wash. recently. McFadden, who is a member...

Using a fleet of airplanes, ships and intrepid scientists, Cornell is leading the largest single deployment of seismometers along the Alaskan Peninsula – a $4.5 million endeavor that geologists from across the country hope will solve long-standing...

The University of New Mexico’s Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, AMP, is designed to increase the enrollment and graduation rate of historically underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.  During the...

The University of New Mexico hosts the third annual Earth Educators’ Rendezvous July 17-21. The event, which will be held at UNM Student Union Building and various other locations on campus, brings together researchers and practitioners working in all...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded The University of New Mexico a five-year, $12 million NSF Cooperative Agreement to operate the Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences or COMPRES. Distributed through NSF’s...

A new paper by UNLV Geoscience graduate student Jon Baker has hot implications for the climate future of Russia. Baker, working with UNLV Geoscience Professor Matthew Lachniet and colleagues Yemane Asmerom and Victor Polyak at The University of New...

The first-ever Stuart A. Northrop Distinguished Lecture series, hosted by The University of New Mexico’s Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, features Professor Jonathan Payne in a talk titled, “The Modern (6th) Mass Extinction: A Geological...

The 2017 GeoPRISMS Theoretical and Experimental Institute on Rift Initiation and Evolution takes place Feb. 7-11 at the Hotel Albuquerque. Hosted by the Theoretical and Experimental Institute (TEI) and The University of New Mexico, the conference is...