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Dr Andrea Dutton conducting field work in the Seychelle

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 […]

Sea Level Rise Threatens Florida Landmark

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 James Channell awarded 2014 International Capellini Medal of the Italian Geological Society

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 […]