Veronika Kivenson, UCSB Earth Science graduate student, has been awarded a 3-year NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

It is with great pleasure that we announce that Prof. Alex Simms has been awarded tenure here at UCSB

 John's research interests focus on large-scale mountain building processes

Prof. Matthew Jackson will join the earth science faculty at UCSB

The Department of Earth Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the broad area of geodynamics, starting July 1, 2014.

Professor David Lea has been elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.

Professor Stan Awramik has been elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Professor Cathy Busby will head an international team to study 2 kilometers under the sea

National Geographic interviewed Professor David Valentine following the 168,000-gallon oil spill in Galveston Bay on March 22