Professor Craig Jones received the Geological Society of America Structural Geology and Tectonics Division Outstanding Publication award

July 10, 2018

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: Observed rapid bedrock uplift in Amundsen Sea Embayment promotes ice-sheet stability

June 22, 2018

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

Microbes living in a toxic volcanic lake could hold clues to life on Mars

May 2, 2018

Professor Giff Miller is the recipient of the 2018 Distinguished Career Award from the American Quaternary Association.

April 23, 2018

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...

Colorado seeing earthquakes where they’ve never happened before

April 6, 2018

Paul Weimer will receive Honorary Membership in the AAPG in May 2018.

Dec. 19, 2017

Congratulations to Professor Greg Tucker for being elected a 2017 AGU Fellow.

Dec. 15, 2017

Professor Peter Molnar is named University Distinguished Professor, the highest honor awarded to faculty across the CU system’s four campuses.

Nov. 16, 2017

Paul Weimer receives the Don R. Boyd Medal from the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies.

Nov. 2, 2017

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."

Craig Jones releases new book about how Sierra Nevada geology impacts us today

Sept. 27, 2017

The Mountains that Remade America, by Craig Jones

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