Our PhD student Caio Mattos has been awarded a NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EARLY CAREER GRANT to support his continued field work in the Amazon and Cerrado ecosystems in eastern Brazil. Caio’s research focuses on understanding how water in the soil and rocks affect the distribution and functioning of vegetation in different biomes. Congratulations Caio! To learn more about Nat Geo Early Career Grants click here
Upcoming Events
| Colloquium Danielle Santiago-Ramos, Princeton University Wednesday, December 08, 2021 at 11:30AM A multi-isotope investigation of material exchange... |
Geology Museum
| Geology Museum Events Ask A Geologist: Water Sustainability Thursday, December 16, 2021 at 6:00PM Join us for a presentation about water sustainabil... |
New and Noteworthy
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Professor Gross to become NASA Deputy Curator of Apollo Moon samples and reflects to USA Today and...
NASA has offered Professor Juliane Gross an 18 month IPA (Intergovernmental Personnel Act) position to help open the Apollo Moon samples that were sealed 50 years ago. She will be the new "Deputy Apollo Sample Curator" at NASA JSC in Houston and will work in curation next to Dr. Ryan Zeigler... -
Professor Nathan Yee explores the possibility of life on Mars and beyond
Nathan Yee, a Rutgers University–New Brunswick professor of geomicrobiology and geochemistry and a co-investigator at Rutgers ENIGMA, a NASA-funded research team focused on discovering how proteins evolved to become the catalysts of life on Earth. Yee co-created and teaches Rutgers’ first course... -
EPS Welcomes Our New Faculty Member Lujendra Ojha
Welcome Lujendra (Luju)! Luju holds a B.S. in Geophysics from University of Arizona (2012) and a Ph.D. in Planetary Science from Georgia Institute of Technology (2016). He spent the following 3 years as a prestigious Balustein Postdoctoral Fellow and a Research Scientist, in the Department of... -
Dr. Paul Falkowski's work on the evolution of cellular metabolism
Dr. Paul Falkowski and his Rutgers colleagues have discovered two protein folds important for understanding the evolution of cellular metabolism. Evidence suggests that the processes responsible for facilitating the biological redox reactions shared by members of the "tree of life" may have first...
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