Year: 2024

Alumni from our department frequently tell me that some of their best memories as geology majors are from the New Mexico Summer Field Camp.

A brief history of summer field camp: In the summer of 2024, Dr. Meert concluded his role as field camp coordinator and instructor after more than two decades of dedicated teaching. Back in the early 2000s, the University of Florida (UF) was contemplating discontinuing its field camp program.

Sean Yoon, a physical hydrologist, investigates how groundwater flows through the subsurface and transports dissolved substances, impacting everything from ecosystems to human society. These flow and transport processes govern the quantity and quality of water resources, regulate nutrient cycling that impacts ecosystems, and influence the fate of contaminants.

To answer this question, scientific expeditions have traveled to the Svalbard Archipelago, home of the northernmost year-round settlement in the world, Langerbyen, since the 18th century. In March of 2024, I, followed those expeditions to join a field course at the University Centre in Svalbard.

Congratulations to our M.S. and Ph.D. graduates.

Mickie MacKie has been instrumental in enhancing UF’s AI education by designing two AI courses: Data Science and Machine Learning Methods in the Geosciences, and Quest 2:AI in a Changing Climate.

Katie Bristol awarded AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Award for 2023

Mud can be surprisingly clear. A global team of scientists has uncovered a hidden truth: Human actions are shaping the journey of mud. Over the course of decades, our activities have wielded significant influence over the movement and dispersion of mud, affecting carbon storage and cycling worldwide.

Two professors in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida have been named Distinguished Teaching Scholars by the Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars, an advisory board that aims to elevate teaching excellence and celebrate faculty who go above and beyond for their students.

Lying in the bed of her parents’ pickup truck in 1990s South Carolina, marveling at meteor showers across the night sky, a grade-school Amy Williams would often wonder: “Is there another variety of little girl out there, looking back and wondering if she’s also alone in the universe?”