Welcome to Earth and Planetary Sciences

The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a research-oriented department with major emphases in Paleoceanography/Biogeochemistry, Micropaleontology, Stratigraphy and Basin Analysis, Igneous Petrology, Geochemistry and Volcanology, Sedimentology and Quaternary Studies and Geophysics. The department consists of 27 Ph.D. Faculty / Staff including shared faculty with the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Environmental Sciences and Anthroplogy. Graduate (Ph.D./M.S.) and undergraduate (B.S.) degrees in Geological Sciences are offerred. We encourage potential students to come and visit.

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Upcoming EPS Events & Colloquia

Wednesday, July 15, 2009, at 10:00 AM, WL-339

Esteban Gazel Dundi is scheduled to present and defend his Ph.D. dissertation "Interaction of the Galapagos plume with the southern Central American volcanic front.

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EPS News & Kudos

- A special congrats to Nathan Yee who just received a major NSF EAR 4-year grant for "Molecular studies of dissimilatory selenium reduction by subsurface microorganisms"

- Congratulations Kelsey Bitting, GSA 2009 Outstanding Mention for "a grant proposal of exceptionally high merit in conception and presentation", Optically-stimulated luminescence dating of a widespread Holocene unconformity within Delaware River Valley alluvial deposits, reported in GSA Today, July vol., 19(7), p.18.

- Congratulations to Fara Lindsay, who on Monday, June 22, 2009, presented and successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation, on "Geochemistry of lavas from southeastern Nicaragua and of mantle xenoliths from Cerro Mercedes, Costa Rica".

- Professor George McGhee is featured in a new video "The Geometry of Evolution" . View Video (6/19/09)

- Prof. Gail Ashley has been selected to lead SAS' Junior Faculty Workshop for 2009/10 (6/13/09)

- EPS business manager, Johanny Zabala has successfully completes Rutger's HR Academic Personnel Certificate program (6/17/09)

- EPS Graduate student Morgan Schaller is awarded an SEPM student research award (5/29/09)

- Looks like we might have missed this one in February... Nathan Yee, is recipient of the European Association for Geochemistry, 2009 Houtermans’ Medal, awarded to a junior researcher whose contributions to geochemistry are considered to be exceptional (for more info go to http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/rutgers-professor-aw-20090218)

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New EPS Publications

- Miller, K.G., 2009, Broken greenhouse windows, Nature Geoscience, vol. 2, p. 465-466.

- Maguire, T.J., Volkert, R.A., Swisher III, C.C., Sheridan, R.E., 2009, Evidence for an Alleghanian (Early Carboniferous to Late Permian) tectonothermal event in the New Jersey Coastal Plain basement from 40Ar/39Ar biotite data, geochemistry and gravity modeling. Journal of Geodynamics, vol. 48, p. 23–36.

- Ashley, G.M., Tactikos, J.C., Owen, R.B., 2009, Hominin use of springs and wetlands: Paleoclimate and archaeological records from Olduvai Gorge (~1.79-1.74 Ma): Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol. 272, p. 1-16.

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