The Keene Faculty Center was a hive of activity during the Department of Geological Sciences’ Trivia Bowl 2015 on Wednesday, March 25, 2015. Thirteen teams with 40 Department undergraduate and graduate students took on five rounds of Earth science questions in pursuit of the Trivia Bowl 2015 title. Question topics — including geological history, climate science, […]
Can You Dig It? — the Department of Geological Sciences’ 9th annual community outreach event held at the Florida Museum of Natural History — brought hands-on earth science activities to more than 1400 children and adults from Alachua County and the surrounding area on Saturday, March 14, 2015. At least 70 faculty members, postdoctoral researchers, […]
Following on from last year’s huge success, on Thursday February 26, 2015 Jim Anderson of ExxonMobil conducted another “Short course in sequence stratigraphy, the ExxonMobil Approach.” Twenty-one undergraduate and graduate students expanded their knowledge of sequence stratigraphy and seismic interpretation for petroleum geoscience applications with help from an expert in the field. The seven-hour course included three […]
Faculty and students gathered on Thursday February 5, 2015 for the unveiling of a new art exhibit in Williamson Hall. The panoramic painting by Evan Poirier (pictured) depicts landscapes from mountains to the ocean demonstrating “Earth’s Surface Processes” in soils, caves, mountains, rivers, wetlands, groundwater, estuaries, and the ocean. The artwork shows the nature of the […]
Dr. Andrea Dutton’s global sea level research was recently featured on the front page of the University of Florida News site. Her research focuses on investigating drivers for global sea level rise and fall using dating of fossil corals in the Seychelles. In a recent article (Dutton et al., 2015, Quaternary Science Reviews), Dutton’s international team of […]
Climate change and sea level rise effects are showing up at Kennedy Space Center Faculty in the Department of Geological Sciences have been working in partnership with the US Geological Survey and NASA Environmental to assess the progress of coastal erosion at Kennedy Space Center. As a result of this research, NASA has constructed artificial dunes to […]
Dr. Jim Channell, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences, has been awarded the 2014 International Cappellini Medal of the Italian Geological Society for his extensive magneto-stratigraphic studies in Italy. Two recent articles published in Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, and Palaeoecology represent the culmination of over 40 years of research of Italian sedimentary successions contributing to a […]
Dr Jon Martin was recently announced as a Water Institute Fellow by the Climate and Water Institute at the University of Florida for a 3-year term 2014-2017. Dr Martin is recognized for his speciality in research using natural chemical and isotopic compositions of water as tracers of ground water and surface water interactions. The UF Water Institute (WI) […]