Earth & Planetary Sciences

The documentary, Valles Caldera: The Science, focuses on the Valles Caldera National Preserve in the high mountains of northern New Mexico. The Preserve is situated inside a collapsed crater surrounded by eruptive domes and features the 11,254 ft. ...

The momentous Higgs Boson discovery opened the door to new understandings of the universe. What are the basic forces that have shaped it since the beginning of time? Physicist Sally Seidel and her team share what they have learned using the Large Hadron ...

The UNM Nanoscience and Microsystems graduate program has been awarded their second highly competitive grant to provide fellowships for Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN). The announcement was made by Sen. Tom Udall.Many of the ...

Following an eight-month, 354-million mile journey, and a gentle landing in an area known as Gale Crater, researchers associated with the Mars Rover Curiosity were all smiles on Sunday night when confirmation the Rover had touched down safely reached the ...

They are the building blocks of all life on Earth – molecules with large chains of carbon and hydrogen. Yet, on Mars, there relation to life has been somewhat of a mystery scientists have disagreed on for decades. These molecules, which have been the ...

University Libraries is hosting the Walter E. Dean Environmental Information Management Institute in a series of one week courses from Monday, May 28 to Friday, June 15, 2012.

"Connect" has an all-star line-up in March, beginning with a trip through the Grand Canyon and a walk through time. Karl Karlstrom and Laura Crossey helped design the Trail of Time at the Grand Canyon, which represents 4.5 billion years of earth's ...

The Rio Grande Rift—the north-trending continental rift zone that extends from Colorado's central Rocky Mountains to Mexico—is not dead but geologically alive and active, according to a new study by scientists at the Cooperative Institute for Research in ...

Researchers in the University of New Mexico's Earth and Planetary Sciences Department must now sit and wait. They're waiting for the Atlas V rocket that carries the Mars Science Laboratory and an instrument called ChemCam, to land on Gale Crater on the ...

The Science & Society Distinguished Public Talks Series presents, "The Discovery and Significance of Diamonds from The Alps," a talk by Jane Selverstone on Thursday, Nov. 17 at 5 p.m. A meet and greet will also be held beginning at 4:30 p.m. The lecture, ...