News

Side by side image of Donna Whitney in front of rock wall taken portrait style and david fox posing in front of a lake.
Faculty News, Honors/Awards

ESCI Faculty Receive Collegiate Honors

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Professors Donna Whitney and David Fox received two prestigious awards from the College of Science an Engineering.

14 PGC staffers on the steps in front of their office along with a cardboard cut out of penguins.
Researcher & Staff News, School/Dept News

Polar Geospatial Center: Opening Doors to the Most Inaccessible Places on Earth

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NSF committed to funding PGC to support the polar research community for the next 5 years.

 Julia, wearing a pink raincoat, yellow shorts, brown hiking boots and a baseball hat sits on a boulder next to a stream.

Welcoming Julia Wilcots

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Assistant Professor Julia Wilcots joins our faculty, and has an interest in solving the mysteries of deep time.

Large pieces of a fallen rockface litter a biking pathway alongside a river.
Faculty News

Heavier rains due to climate change causing more landslides and rockfalls in Minnesota

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Heavier rainfall because of a warming climate is accelerating erosion in many parts of Minnesota, leading to more frequent landslides, mudslides and rockfalls.

An outcrop of the Freda formation exposed by the water of a river that now cascades over its edges.
Faculty News, Researcher & Staff News

Lakeside Sandstones Hold Key to Ancient Continent’s Movement

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A new study illuminates the movement of a billion-year-old paleocontinent.

Shoreline on the Atlantic coast of New England
Alumni News

Alumna Participates in IODP³-NSF Expedition

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Sara Polanco is part of a team investigating offshore freshwater aquifers beneath the New England continental shelf

Current and former members of the Fox lab at SVP conference
Faculty News, Student News

Mammalian paleoecology at Minnesota: maps, molecules, and morphology

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Exploring the work of the Fox Research Group

Peter Kang Headshot
Faculty News, Honors/Awards

Peter Kang Receives Award for Porous Media Research

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Prof. Kang was awarded the InterPore Award for Porous Media Research

Two students with their heads near a fossil skull of a dinosaur with large teeth

Dinosaurs and Our World: An Eclectic Elective

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This extremely popular course is an integral part of the departments 1xxx level programming

Ecology and Diversity of Marine Microorganisms Students and instructors in Chile

Environmental Microbiology goes gangbusters in the Global South

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Professor Jake Bailey conducts research while teaching an international course in Chile