Notes from the Field

Written by John Chadwick | SAS Senior Writer Journey Berry hopes to make the field more diverse  Journey Berry grew up immersed in the performing arts, playing bass and mulling a career as a jazz musician. She never dreamed she would find her calling amid the glaciers and icy fjords of Alaska. But...

Vadim Levin, along with colleague Professor Sara Mana, installed a continuously recording three-component broadband digital seismograph. Mere months later, this seismic station ended up recording the ground shaking from a 7.6 magnitude earthquake in southwestern Mexico.  

Professor Jim Wright and members of his research group went to a core repository in Oregon to split, scan, and describe the cores that they collected along the Patagonian margin, offshore Argentina. This project is a continuation of their successful expedition to the southern Argentine margin in...

 Rutgers climate scientists bring school teachers aboard research vessel Written by John Chadwick | SAS Senior Writer When the research vessel Atlantis steamed out of Woods Hole, Mass. on June 2, scientists from Rutgers University and the University of Washington were on board for a 14-day deep-sea...

An Undergraduate's Experience in the Field Written by Jason Kawalec, Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences Class of 2023, Planetary Science Major Date- July 12, 2022 Location- San Pedro, Costa Rica Today marks my twelfth day living in Costa Rica! I’ve had a wonderful time, full of memorable...

Written by John Chadwick, SAS Senior Writer Bill Sparks was a kid growing up in New Jersey when he came across a magazine photo that showed two geologists doing fieldwork on a mountain in Turkey. “I thought that looked like a lot of fun,” says Sparks, RC’65. “I could see myself doing something like...