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Events and Seminars

Oct 25 Mon 12:10pm

SRL/JEDI Seminars

Hybrid - Tate 401-20 & via Zoom.

Soft Rock Talk

Gabriela Ines Diaz and Crystal Ng, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, with Iyekiyapiwin Darlene St. Clair, Lower Sioux Indian Community, St. Cloud State University
Introducing Proposed Commitments to Confront Colonization in ESCI (2nd of 3-part workshop for developing a meaningful land acknowledgment)

Oct 27 Wed 12:10pm

HRL/JEDI Seminars

Hybrid - Tate 401-20 and virtually via Zoom.

Marc Hirschmann, Gunn Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Coupled iron-chromium redox in magma oceans and planetary mantles 

Oct 28 Thu 4:00pm

Department Seminar Series

Virtual via Zoom.

Dr. Joseph Bauerkemper, Assoc. Professor, University of Minnesota-Duluth, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Treaty Obligations and Deep Risk

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Recent News

J Jones teaching Geomorphology in the field

More than fun in the sun

October 7, 2021
PhD Candidate, Jabari Jones publishes article in the Journal of Geoscience Education highlighting the value of field trips as a pedagogical tool.
Picture of Jabari Jones doing Field work

JEDI Conversations

October 1, 2021
PhD Candidate, Jabari Jones, publishes editorial in journal AGU Advances
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Researchers and citizen scientists complete first-ever Weddell seal count

September 24, 2021
CSE News: A research team led by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has completed a first-ever global population estimate of Weddell seals in Antarctica.
Dundee Glacier superimposed over modern Dundee

Dundee under ice: a view of Tayside during the ice age

September 13, 2021
PhD candidate works with animators in Scotland to produce a short film about Dundee's glacial past.
Rock Deformation analysis equipment

Research Opportunities in Rock Deformation (R.O.R.D.)

September 10, 2021
A new Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program is now being offered in Earth and Environmental Sciences. This is a distributed REU in that students apply for a summer internship and then
grad student Viktor Radermacher with dinosaur casts

Viktor Radermacher - dinosaur study

July 7, 2021
Ph.D. student Viktor Radermacher is lead author of a new study using a newly discovered Heterodontosaurus fossil that shows all dinosaurs did not breathe in the same way.
Archived News

Recognizing Geology’s Colonial History for Better Policy Today

Precambrian bedrock in an area ceded by the Chippewa to the U.S. federal government in an 1854 treaty, currently known as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeast Minnesota
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Jenn McDonald

Earth Science's, Maddy Nyblade, and the Minnesota Geological Survey's Jenn McDonald have published an article in Eos recognizing and reckoning with the colonial history of Geology. From the field's founders to the violence of laws, policies, and dispossession that made Geology relevant, this article details a past often ignored in favor of a history stripped of its colonial legacy, and highlights opportunities for change.

 

Read the full article in Eos