Faculty News

Professor Craig Jones received the Geological Society of America Structural Geology and Tectonics Division Outstanding Publication award for: Jones, C. H., H. Reeg, G. Zandt, H. Gilbert, T. J. Owens, and J. Stachnik (2014), P-wave tomography of potential convective downwellings and their source regions, Sierra Nevada, California, Geosphere, 10, 505-533...

Just published in Science - ( http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6395/1335 ). Professor Mike Willis is part of the study that shows rising bedrock below West Antarctica could slow down ice-sheet collapsing. Read more at http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/rising-bedrock-below-west-antarctica-could-delay-catastrophic-ice-sheet-collapse

Professor Giff Miller is the recipient of the 2018 Distinguished Career Award from the American Quaternary Association. This award recognizes a Quaternary scientist who has contributed significantly and continuously to the advancement of Quaternary science. It is the highest award made by the Association and honors a lifetime commitment to...

In November, Paul Weimer will receive the Don R. Boyd Medal from the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies . This is a career award recognizing "Excellence in Gulf Coast Geology: for distinguished standing in Gulf Coast Basin research geology, and professional leadership."

The Mountains that Remade America, by Craig Jones