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Bezada Laar Map
Faculty News, Researcher & Staff News

What's Shaking at the Seismology Lab?

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From continental-scale studies to experiments on a single stream, researchers at the seismology lab are finding more ways to learn about Earth processes from the analysis of seismic data.

GSA Sign Pittsburgh
Researcher & Staff News, School/Dept News

ESCI Staff Visit Pittsburgh for GSA

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Jennifer Petrie and Kaleigh Swift attended GSA in Pittsburgh this year to staff a graduate recruitment booth.

Portrait of Annia Fayon
Faculty News, Researcher & Staff News

Adjunct Professor Annia Fayon in First Cohort of UHP Fellows

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The program is open to all tenure and non-tenure track faculty across the university. Annia is one of only six in the inaugural cohort of University Honors Program Faculty Fellows.

Dinoflagellets
Researcher & Staff News

Deciphering the History of the World’s Oceans Through Microfossils

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The Pospelova Paleoenvironmental Laboratory uses microfossils to analyze the history of the world's oceans.

Brown and Stillenger in the field
Researcher & Staff News

The Peopling of Minnesota

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Using the magnetic properties of archaeological sites and materials to better understand our shared human history

PGC high resolution map
Researcher & Staff News

High-res maps of entire polar regions provide new clues for climate researchers

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With four more years of satellite imagery data, researchers in the Polar Geospatial Center at the University of Minnesota and their partners have now released the most detailed polar region terrain maps ever created.

Santelli Model
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Get to Know: The Santelli Environmental and Applied Biogeochemistry Lab

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Research in Associate Professor Cara Santelli’s lab uses laboratory and observational field-based approaches to shed light on coupled microbial and abiotic processes.

Plinio Thesis
Honors/Awards, Researcher & Staff News

IRM Postdoc Receives Honors

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IRM Postdoc, Plinio Jaqueto has received the Brazilian national award for best PhD thesis in Geophysics 2022, and GSA Karst Division's Young Scientist Award!

RAMP group
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Get to know: The Rock and Mineral Physics Laboratory

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The Rock and Mineral Physics Laboratory at the University of Minnesota uses laboratory-based experiments to investigate the physical properties of geological materials.

Sapphire MC-ICP-MS
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Tracing the Global Potassium Cycle Through Its Stable Isotopes

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Assistant Professor Xinyuan Zheng and his group are developing new mass spectrometry techniques to measure stable K isotope ratios in nature, providing a new way to study the K cycle.