Honors in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Majors with strong academic records and an interest in pursuing honors should discuss possible projects with an appropriate faculty member or the director of undergraduate studies as early as possible, but no later than fall of senior year. After a proposed project is approved by the undergraduate adviser, the research is conducted as 2 quarters of 399 or in 1 quarter of 399 and 1 quarter of a 400-level course; the student prepares a thesis based on this research. One quarter of 399 counts toward the major requirements; the second quarter of thesis work (399 or a 400-level course) does not. Students whose projects and grades meet department criteria are recommended to the college for graduation with honors. For more information, students should contact the director of undergraduate studies or their research advisers.
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Seminars
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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.
