Notes from the Field

The ocean floor holds secrets stretching back millions of years. Beneath that surface, the top 10 meters of sediment contain a detailed record of how land, sea, and atmosphere have interacted over the past 1 million years. Scientists have been studying this record using piston cores since the...

Congratulations to all of our 2025 Undergraduate Student Award recipients! The Department of Earth and Planetary Science is celebrating its many talented students. We are super proud of all of their accomplishments, and are excited to announce this year’s award winners. Mike Di Maio has been...

Medford, NJ — The Paleogene Earth Perturbations–U.S. Atlantic Coastal Plain (PEP-US) project is set to return to Medford, New Jersey, from September 22 to October 3 to drill two new scientific boreholes targeting one of Earth’s most dramatic climate events: the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum...

This article was originally posted on ASU News and can be accessed by clicking here. A site in northern Kenya has yielded 1.5-million-year-old fossils. Louise N. Leakey Sediment cores, fossils reveal how human activity, climate shifts have shaped Lake Myosotis in New York A multi-university...

Scientists are analyzing approaches to decision-making on preserving coastal infrastructure over time to find optimal solutions. Matthew Drews This article was written by Kitta Macpherson. You can find the original article on Rutgers Today. In an artificial intelligence study, Rutgers and...

This article was originally written by Julia Jacobo and can be accessed on the abcNews website. Click here to watch Luju's feature on abcNews! A partial solar eclipse will be visible from the U.S. this weekend, but only a select few of the northernmost states are expected to get a glimpse of the...