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Emeritus Professor Margaret Kivelson was quoted in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and CNN about her team's results published today in Nature Astronomy.  The team ...

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Warren was the first to propose that vast differences in the make-up of defined sets of meteorites indicate that, even though they all come to Earth via the asteroid belt ...

Professor Kivelson is an accomplished scholar, mentor, and role model.  We were thrilled to celebrate her career with an event on campus on February 12, 2018.  We hope you enjoy the videorecording ...

The course EPSS 136C Field Geophysics provides one of the most powerful educational models in the Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences.  Students consider a scientific question, go to the field for a ...

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Drew Avery/Wikimedia Commons - Iceberg off the coast of Greenland.

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It may not rank among the all-time greatest dramas, but the history of ice on Greenland ...

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Artist rendition of electrons interacting with chorus waves.  Credit: ERG Science Team

Sometimes on a dark night near the poles, the sky ...

Prof. Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni, a geodynamicist, will join EPSS in July 2018.  She will hold the Louis B and Martha B Slichter Endowed Chair in the Geosciences, which has been endowed specifically to support ...

Prof. Lars Stixrude, a mineral physicist, will join EPSS in July 2018.  Prof. Stixrude received his B.S. in Geology and Physics from the University of Delaware in 1985, and completed his Ph.D ...