News Archive

Sorting the solar junkyard: My research experience at NASA Johnson Space Center

Posted: Wed, 02/22/2012 - 1:08pm

Peter Christoffersen ’13 presented geology seminar on his research on the Allende meteorite last summer. Chondritic meteorites like Allende contain...

Workplace Alaska (Deadline February 24, 2012)

Posted: Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:54am

Spring 2012

Posted: Wed, 02/15/2012 - 9:26am

Ashley-Kate Durham '13 Gives Alpine Skiing First-Ever First-Place Finish

Posted: Tue, 02/07/2012 - 12:04pm

Application Deadline: 10 February 2012: SCEC and UNAVCO Internship Opportunities for Geoscience Students

Posted: Fri, 02/03/2012 - 10:50am

Applied Geohydrology Summer Research Assistantships Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas

Posted: Fri, 01/27/2012 - 10:32am

Up-to-three 12-week summer positions open to students at any university. The individuals will participate in a variety of field activities in support...

Peter Christoffersen and coworkers will present his research work.

Posted: Tue, 01/24/2012 - 11:47am

“PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS OBTAINED THROUGH UNFOLDING 2D SECTIONS: TOWARDS ACCURATE DISTRIBUTIONS OF NEBULAR SOLIDS IN THE ALLENDE METEORITE” at...

Dr. Alexander Stewart was the guest speaker at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY.

Posted: Mon, 01/23/2012 - 9:20am

Dr. Alexander Stewart was the guest speaker at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, United States Military Academy, West Point,...

2012 Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program in Astrobiology and Planetary Science

Posted: Tue, 01/17/2012 - 8:24am

Stephanie Lynn Peek ’06 who is finishing her dissertation in paleontology at the University of Wyoming visited the campus for Homecoming.

Posted: Wed, 11/09/2011 - 11:33am

Stephanie is the granddaughter of Steve Peek (’39) who was inducted into the Hall of Fame at Homecoming. While she was here she gave the Department...

Rob Menard ’07 visited campus for the Laurentians In Residence Program.

Posted: Mon, 11/07/2011 - 9:53am

Rob is currently finishing his MS at SUNY Binghamton. He spoke about his time in graduate school and his upcoming employment with Waters Petroleum...

Dr. Ben Zuckerman of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCLA gave an excellent lecture to the Geology Department on October 19th.

Posted: Thu, 10/20/2011 - 7:23am

Dr. Zuckerman’s work on the elemental composition of white dwarf stars was the subject of the talk. Dr. Zuckerman is the brother of North Country...

GSA 2012 Minneapolis

Posted: Tue, 10/18/2011 - 8:42am

Five geology faculty members and four students traveled to the national meeting of the Geological Society of America to present their research. The...

Workin' on the beach by Kyle Marvinney ’11. He spent the summer as an intern working for the Maine Geological Survey on the beach.

Posted: Tue, 09/27/2011 - 7:40am

Michael O’Connor 09’ wrote from sunny California where he has worked for the past year and a half as a river scientist for the Friends of Deer Creek through AmeriCorps.

Posted: Thu, 09/08/2011 - 8:39am

He has spent his time collecting data, training volunteers, and writing reports. One of his efforts resulted in a chapter on River Ecology for...

Kyle Marvinney (’11) is working for the Maine Geological Survey as a beach monitoring intern.

Posted: Mon, 08/29/2011 - 11:00am

His job includes performing GPS surveys of nearly every beach in Maine. He has found it interesting seeing the interaction between science,...

This summer Peter Christoffersen ’13 worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center with advisor Dr. Justin Simon at the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) directorate.

Posted: Thu, 08/25/2011 - 8:40am

The project involved the modal analysis of the Allende meteorite, the largest carbonaceous chondrite ever found on earth. Chondritic meteorites...

Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) has awarded Dr. Antun Husinec.

Posted: Tue, 08/16/2011 - 7:33am

He was awarded with a Certificate of Recognition for an excellent technical oral presentation at the 2011 American Association of Petroleum...

Krystyna Kornecki '12

Posted: Tue, 06/21/2011 - 7:41am

We were recently informed by Krystyna Kornecki '12 that she has been awarded a scholarship in partial support of her college expenses by the...

Congrats to alum, Sean Reagan (’10), a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Posted: Thu, 06/16/2011 - 9:59am

Sean recently published part of his senior honor thesis with his adviser Jeffrey Chiarenzelli, Brian Cousens (Carleton University), and James...