Photo caption: Bianca Evans-Donaldson (Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) and Anita Marshall along with her family at the Evening of Excellence for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Anita Marshall received the first-ever Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Faculty Award during an Evening of Excellence for the College of Liberal […]
Studying glaciers . . . from Florida Mickey MacKie, assistant professor of geological sciences and a glaciologist. Photo provided. Welcome to From Florida, a podcast where you’ll learn how minds are connecting, great ideas are colliding and groundbreaking innovations become a reality because of the University of Florida. Mickey MacKie, an assistant professor of geological […]
University of Florida professor Juliane Dannberg, PhD, has received the Jason Morgan Early Career Award for 2021 from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for her compelling research and advancement of her field. The award recognized Dannberg’s contributions to tectonophysics, a branch of geophysics that focuses on deformations of the Earth’s structure such as mantle convection […]
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Going way back By: Alyssa Findlay Nature Climate Change The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the Earth, changing the landscape. In particular, rising temperatures accelerate permafrost thaw, with implications for the vast stores of carbon currently frozen in these soils. The fate of carbon released from thawing permafrost is not […]
Astrobiologist Amy Williams’ mind is on Mars. Williams, a University of Florida geology professor, recently joined her second Mars mission: After serving on the Curiosity rover team since 2009, she’s now a participating scientist on the Perseverance rover, which touches down on the red planet on Feb. 18. “Serving on any NASA mission is the […]
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