Earth Sciences News & Announcements Archive
Inside Earth Sciences
- Geologists Get Unique and Unexpected Opportunity to Study Magma (February 16, 2011)
- Mary Droser on Teaching Climate Change (January 24, 2011)
The University of California, Riverside's Mary Droser discusses why she believes teaching climate change to young students is crucial - UCR: Researchers show that ancient ocean turned toxic (January 24, 2011)
- Oxygen's challenge to early life (January 6, 2011)
Recent Graduate Ben Gill and Professor Tim Lyons publication in Nature - NASA Science on the Road: Creeping Faults in California (January 6, 2011)
Check out an interview conducted at the Annual AGU meeting last month. - Hewett Club Seminar (November 8, 2010)
Dr. Dave Stegman, Scripps Institute of Oceanography "What is the Sound of One Plate Subducting?" - AEG Monthly Meeting held @ UCR Earth Sciences Courtyard (November 8, 2010)
The National President of AEG, Bruce Hilton ""Martis Creek Dam -The Discovery of a New Capable Fault in Tahoe Basin" Wednesday, November 10, 2010 Location. University of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA Earth Sciences courtyard (Meeting Cost $25 professionals, $5 students) Co-sponsored by the Hewett Club & the Earth Sciences Department - UC Riverside Paleontologist Appears on Discovery Channel's "First Life with David Attenborough" (October 25, 2010)
Mary Droser discusses early animal life in documentary airing Sunday, Oct. 24 - Geophysicists Claim Conventional Understanding of Earth's Deep Water Cycle Needs Revision (October 21, 2010)
Commonly held view in geophysical community that water is carried deep into Earth's mantle is false, says UC Riverside's Harry Green - Earth Science Graduate students Lidya Tarhan & Cassey Meyers receives NSF Fellowship (October 8, 2010)
Congratulations on your hard work! - Oxygen Oases Sites Set Stage for Life (October 8, 2010)
Geochemists Timothy Lyons and his graduate student Christopher Reinhard have contributed to a study that reports that oxygen oases in the surface ocean near the continents were sites of significant oxygen production at least 100 million years before the gas began to rise sharply in the Earth's atmosphere 2.4 billion years ago, which then set the stage for animal life to follow. - Fossils Represent Large-scale Life Forms (October 8, 2010)
A team of paleontologists led by Mary Droser, chair of the Department of Earth Sciences, spent the month of July in the South Australian outback excavating fossils from the Ediacaran period of geologic history (630-542 million years old). - Earth Sciences Website Redesign (October 7, 2010)
Our website has received a facelift! Look through the new calendar to see upcoming events and meetings. - New Research Highlights (October 7, 2010)
Check out what our researchers at UCR have been up to! - Geological Society of America Annual Meeting (September 23, 2010)
The 2010 GSA Annual Meeting takes place on October 31st through November 3rd In Denver, Colorado.