Despite an April blizzard, graduate students Emily Wolin and Jessica Lodewyk successfully serviced 20 SPREE seismic stations in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Undergraduate Nora Richter extracts leaf wax lipids in the Organic Geochemistry lab. Graduate student Rosemary Bush collected the samples along a longitudinal transect in the U.S.
Undergraduate Peter Ilhardt uses the micro-Raman spectrometer in the mineral physics laboratory to analyze the mineral content of carbonate samples from the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Professor Craig Bina and several international colleagues were honored on March 4 in a special ceremony by the president of Ehime University (Matsuyama, Japan) for contributions to worldwide research collaboration. (Click image for more details.)
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Graduate student Young Ji Joo dissolves carbonates in samples with acid in the Sedimentary Geology lab.News Highlight
Laura G. Beckerman lands NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Award
Double Major Allegra C. Mayer wins the Deutsche Akademische Austausch Dienst (DAAD)
Jennifer Mills named 2013 Marshall Scholar
Maya Gomes wins 2013 Presidential Fellowship
Maya Gomes wins 2013 Presidential Fellowship
Jennifer Mills named 2013 Marshall Scholar
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Nestled on the Evanston campus beside Lake Michigan, the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS) provides a close-knit, collegial atmosphere for undergraduate and graduate study. Students enjoy intimate access to our internationally renowned faculty and the department is recognized for a supportive and collaborative atmosphere where research and teaching are pursued at the forefront of earth and planetary sciences. A number of our faculty have been recognized with teaching awards and medals from professional organizations like GSA and AGU, and the university has recently completed construction of a state-of-the-art analytical facility for earth and planetary science research. To learn more about our department, undergraduate and graduate programs, people, analytical facilities, and more, please explore our website, download our annual newsletter, Epicenters, or contact us. Our contact information can be found in the footer of this web page.
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News
>> See all newsSeth Stein wins Humboldt Research Award
Emily Wolin and Jessica Lodewyk's Spring SPREE Service Run
Laurel Childress Awarded Best Oral Presentation of a Student Poster in NZ
Emile Okal wins 2013 Sergey Soloviev Medal
Jennifer Mills named 2013 Marshall Scholar
Seminars
>> See all eventsMay 24, 2013, 3:30 PM
Building an Astronomical Timescale of the Maastrichtian (late Cretaceous)
Photos
Graduate student Maya Gomes carries the Earth in her hands during the EPS New Year celebration.
Young Ji Joo (left) and Darcy Li (right) stand with Professor Emeritus Abraham Lerman. The three worked on several projects together involving global biogeochemistry, particularly the coupling of N and Si with C cycles.
Graduate student John Lazarz centering a sample on the X-ray diffraction system in the mineral physics laboratory.
A warehouse of SPREE seismometors
Professor McInerney's Paleobiology class at the Field Museum of Natural History
EARTH 201 students at Natural Bridge State Park in Baraboo, WI
Rosemary Bush holding the part and counterpart (and a scale) of an incredibly well-preserved frog fossil in Ethiopia.
Andrew Jacobson's metal-free clean lab
Brian Kristall chisels a banded iron formation near Marquette, MI.
Greg Lehn collects water samples from a river on the North Slope of Alaska.
