HOW A MASSACHUSETTS SALT MARSH IS CHANGING WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT NEW ENGLAND’S COAST
New research shows that salt marshes grow from marine sediment washed ashore during storms, reversing commonly held assumptions
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PhD student Karin Lehnigk uncovers the backstory of Earth's Varied Landscapes
Karin's research studies the roles that ancient megafloods played in shaping the Channeled Scablands in the Northwestern United States and their implications for forming similar features on Mars.
Department News
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Graduate student Leah Travis-Taylor selected to join paleoCAMP
paleoCAMP is a 2-week summer school for graduate students in paleoclimatology, hosted at a rotating location in the American West. The school’s mission is to provide vital cross-disciplinary training for the next generation of climate scientists; provide an optimal environment for networking and mentoring of rising stars in paleoclimatology; and promote diversity and inclusive practices in order to encourage retention of underrepresented groups in the Geosciences. -
Study Finds That Agricultural Practices Have Massively Stripped Midwest Topsoil
A new study in the journal Earth’s Future, led by graduate student Evan Thaler and post-doc Jeffrey Kwang, shows that since Euro-American settlement approximately 160 years ago, agricultural fields in the midwestern U.S. have lost, on average, two millimeters of soil per year. -
Geography Program, Student Win Awards
The Master's Program in Geography was recognized by The American Association of Geographers in its 2022 awards as "being impressive in several areas". Geography Major Keegan Moynahan was also awarded The 2022 Marble-Boyle Undergraduate Achievement Award in Geographic Science for a strong effort to bridge geographic and computer sciences. -
The Surprising Reason why Vikings Abandoned a Successful Settlement
Recent alum Dr. Boyang Zhao, Associate Professor Isla Castañeda, Dr. Jeffrey Salacup, post-doctoral researchers Will Daniels and Tobias Schneider, and various alumni, collaborators, and department members published research in the journal Science Advances that challenges the hypothesis that Vikings abandoned their settlements Greenland because it got too cold. -
Dr. Seda Şalap-Ayça Receives Fellowships
GIST program faculty Dr. Seda Şalap-Ayça has been named a fellow in the 2022 Golden Compass and TRELIS programs. -
The Geography of Connecticut Wine
Dr. Forrest Bowlick published an analysis in the The Geographical Bulletin's special issue on Food, Fermentation, and Drink of the nuances of Connnecticut's wine geographies and their economic impact on the state's American Viticultural Areas -
Water Sustainability of Lithium Mining
PhD students Brendan Moran and Sarah McKnight, with Professor David Boutt and udnergraduate student Alexander Kirshen, published research in the Earth and Space Science Open Archive about using isotope analysis and remote sensing to gain a better picture of how drought and recent rain events impact groundwater in the Salar de Atacama. This assessment provides a better hydrological framework for evaluating the effects of lithium extraction in the region to support renewable energy technologies. -
It's All in the Way Faults Move
Graduate Student Hanna Elston, Professor Michele Cooke, and recent alum Dr. Alex Hatem published research in the journal Geology that shows how piecess of large fault systems, such as the San Andreas, reorganize themselves and cause movement on other pieces of the fault system at a local scale. -
The Cold is Getting Hot
Dr.'s Julie Brigham-Grette and Rob DeConto were invited to address an international symposium of the world’s leading polar researchers, at an international symposium organized by the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research and the International Arctic Science Committee, in collaboration with the Oceanographic Institute, Prince Albert I of Monaco Foundation, the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative and the UN Decade for Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.
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