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Emily Wolin and Jessica Lodewyk's Spring SPREE Service Run

Graduate students Emily Wolin and Jessica Lodewyk successfully serviced 20 seismic stations and collected 53 GB of data in Wisconsin and Minnesota last April, as part of the SPREE (Superior Province Rifting EarthScope Experiment). All of the stations they visited were in working condition--one of th...

Laurel Childress Awarded Best Oral Presentation of a Student Poster in NZ

Laurel Childress and Neal Blair traveled to Wellington, New Zealand mid-April for a NSF GeoPRISMS workshop to plan field studies of local subduction processes. Laurel was awarded best Oral Presentation of a Student Poster (The Subduction Margin Carbon Cycle: A Preliminary Assessment of t...

Emile Okal wins 2013 Sergey Soloviev Medal

Professor Emile Okal has been selected by the European Geosciences Union as the 2013 recipient of the Sergey Soloviev Medal.  This medal is "awarded for outstanding scientific contributions in fundamental research that improves our knowledge of basic natural hazards principles as well as resear...

Craig Bina honored in Ceremony at Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan

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....

Andrew Jacobson Visits Congress to Talk about Climate Change

Andrew Jacobson, associate professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, was one of four AGU scientists who spent April 14^th , 2010 on Capitol Hill to present his research at the 16^th Annual Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF) Exhibition and Reception. This exhibition featured science,...

Steven Jacobsen wins PECASE

President Obama designated Assistant Professor Steven Jacobsen among 100 beginning researchers to receive a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) at a White House ceremony on January 13th, 2010. The Award is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government o...

Suzan van der Lee Receives NSF CAREER Award

The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences proudly announces that assistant professor Suzan van der Lee has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation, the agency's most prestigious award for new faculty members....

Seth Stein Named William Deering Professor of EPS

Seth A. Stein, professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Northwestern University, has been appointed the William Deering Professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences....

Andrew Jacobson Receives Major NSF Award

The Department congratulates Dr. Andrew Jacobson, Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, on receiving a major grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Jacobson will use the award, which totals $847,218, to purchase a Multi-Collector Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer (MC-TIM...

Andrew Jacobson Wins Packard Fellowship, Clarke Medal

The department is proud to announce that Dr. Andrew Jacobson, assistant professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, has recently received two major awards--the 2008 F.W. Clarke Medal and a Packard Fellowship....

Steven Jacobsen Awarded CAREER Grant

The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences congratulates assistant professor Steven D. Jacobsen on receiving a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, the agency's most prestigious grant for young scholars. Jacobsen is the third EPS junior faculty member awar...

Steven Jacobsen Wins Packard Fellowship

Steven D. Jacobsen, assistant professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, has been awarded a five-year, $875,000 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. One of only 20 scientists nationwide to receive this prestigious unrestricted research grant, Ja...

Father-son team reassesses natural, financial hazards

Seth Stein and his father, Jerome Stein, find similarities among their disciplines, write a series of papers and a book. Don’t miss the Science Café Talk about their collaborations, Gambling Against Nature: Combining Science & Economics to Defend Against Natural Disaster Wednesday, Janu...

Geology # 7 of Forbes 15 Most Valuable Majors

According to Forbes, Geology is #7 of 15 most valuable majors....

Xiaoting Lou Receives Honorable Mention for Seismology Presentation at AGU

Xiaoting Lou received an honorable mention in the competition for 2011 Outstanding Student Presentation Award in the Seismology section of AGU. This means his presentation was in the top 25% of over 250 student presentations and received exceptionally good reveiws from the judges. A link to the othe...

Toast to Retiring EPS Professor, Abraham Lerman

On Wednesday, May 30th, at the End of the Year Faculty Gathering, EPS Chair Brad Sageman and Professor Emile Okal recognized Abe Lerman for his accomplishments. Although Lerman retires on August 31, he will teach Earth's Changing Climate during the Fall 2012 quarter....

NU 2011-2012 Fellowship Winners’ Party

The NU Office of Fellowships hosted a Winners’ Party on May 14, in Scott Hall’s Guild Lounge. Undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni were among the winners of 104 external awards, fellowships, grants and scholarships this academic year.  Northwestern winners numbered over 200...

Undergrads Alice and Jenny Elected to Phi Beta Kappa

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Donna Jurdy Wins Teaching Award

The Weinberg College awarded EPS faculty member Donna Jurdy a Weinberg College Outstanding Freshman Advising Award for the 2011-12 academic year. Teaching awards applaud excellence in instruction, significant contributions to curricular innovation, exemplary mentoring of research and independent stu...

Banner Year for Undergraduate Research Grant Program Awards

The Office of the Provost and the Grants Committee undertake rigorous review to identify undergraduate’s independent research projects worthy of funding through the Undergraduate Research Grant (URG’s) program. Five Earth and Planetary Science students have won awards! They are:...

For Freshmen Interested in Earth and Planetary Sciences...

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Stein, van der Lee & Grad student Trevor Bollman Featured on EarthScope Channel

EPS faculty members Seth Stein and Suzan van der Lee are featured in an EarthScope YouTube channel video that describes how EarthScope seismometers are being used to understand the extent and origin of the North American Midcontinent Rift.....

Axford and Jacobson featured in Northwestern magazine

The Spring 2012 edition of Northwestern magazine featured Earth and Planetary Sciences professors Axford and Jacobson with articles frontlining their work on arctic evidence of climate change and the carbon "fingerprinting" ability of new technologies, respectively. This publication is the quarterly...

Considering Earth and Planetary Sciences as a major? Learn more...

Are you a freshman or a transfer student who is considering Earth & Planetary Sciences as a major or minor? Explore the Undergraduate section of our website, and contact Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor Andrew Jacobson, if you have questions about the program....

Rosemary Bush wins Best Student Poster Award

Congratulations go out to Rosemary Bush, who won the Best Student Poster Award while at the Climate and Biota of the Early Paleogene Conference in Salzburg, Austria, June 2011.  Her poster is entitled Composition of n-Alkanes in Individual Fossil Leaves from the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary....