News

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Earth & Environmental Sciences Faculty, Students Receiving Honors

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Over the course of the last several months, several faculty, and a student have received prestigious awards and honors.

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Carrie Laudon: A Life Shaped by the Earth

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From childhood summers in the Yukon to decades of global work, each step helped Carrie form deeper understanding of the Earth and its systems.

Mackovicky field work sites superimposed on a mid-cretaceous world.
Researcher & Staff News

Digging into the Mesozoic fossil record, literally and figuratively.

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Learn more about the work in the Makovicky Lab.

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Honors/Awards

Christian Teyssier Receives 2026 Marie Tharp Medal

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Awarded in recognition of his remarkable scientific excellence and enduring impact on Earth sciences

*Elise Palecek participating in a natural luge/alpine luge competition.
Student News

CSE student applying Earth sciences in international alpine luge competitions

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Undergraduate student, Elise Palecek, is competing with the Alpine Luge Team, while pursuing a degree in earth sciences.

Larry Edwards Receiving honorary doctorate
Honors/Awards

Larry Edwards named most cited researchers in the world

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Recognition honors researchers whose citations place them in top 1 percent of citation counts for their field

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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.

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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.