DEPARTMENT HIGHLIGHTS

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Research Scientist Mark Snyder talks about climate change and ocean dead zones on KPFK radio (March 5, 2009 program) [link]

Susan Schwartz discusses slow slip earthquakes at the AAAS meeting [link]

Learn about Antarctic field expeditions by Slawek Tulaczyk and Jake Walter at "Ice Stories", a site hosted by the Exploratorium [Link]

Alumna Lisa White receives the first Bromery Award for the Minorities from the Geological Society of America [Full Story]

Article in Discover magazine features work by Slawek Tulaczyk on the stability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet [Full Story]

Study by graduate student Charlie Barnhart and colleagues at NASA Ames suggests that valley networks on Mars formed during long period of episodic flooding [Full Story]

Alumna Judith Totman Parrish elected president of the Geological Society of America [Full Story]

Rob Coe and Jim Zachos receive Humboldt Research Awards [Full Story]

Computer simulations by EPS researchers support the idea that a giant impact could explain the bipolar topographic differences on Mars [Full Story]

Emily Brodsky awarded the James B. Macelwane medal from AGU [Full Story]

Patrick Chuang and Slawek Tulaczyk promoted
The department is pleased to announce the promotion of Patrick Chuang to Associate Professor with tenure and of Slawek Tulaczyk to Full Professor.

Graduate student Nicholas Van Der Elst receives ARCS Foundation Scholarship [Full Story]

Thorne Lay elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences [Full Story]

New findings by EPS researchers suggest that uplift of the Tibetan Plateau occurred in stages [Full Story]

Jim Zachos elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union [Full Story]

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