2022 News

Keneni Godana won a travel grant to travel to (their native) Chicago this winter to present their work.

Jim was a specialist in high precision U-Pb dating of zircon and made several key discoveries that significantly advanced U-Pb geochronology. 

Dr. Edward Keller, professor of Earth Science and Environmental Sciences, passed on September 10, 2022 after a long illness and will be sorely missed. 

During the 2020-2021 academic year, Professor Matt Jackson was living in Iceland when the recent Icelandic eruption began at Fagradalsfjall

Analysis of volcanic glass from the Transantarctic Mountains suggests that 90 Million years ago glaciation was widespread in Antarctica

In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Weldeab and co-authors present evidence for massive methane hydrate destabilization during a period called the Eemian when the global climate was, on average,  warmer by 1-1.5 °C than today.

Professor Emerita Tanya Atwater has received the Geological Society of London's highest honor, the Wollaston Medal. 

Hunga eruption atmospheric waves: Prof. Robin Matoza, Dr. Alex Iezzi, Hugo Ortiz, and Rodrigo de Negri in international collaboration to analyze exceptional multi-technology observations of this extraordinary event in the modern digital record. 

Professor Toshiro Tanimoto has been named a Gugenheim Foundation Fellow

Emeriti Frank Spera and Alumna Melissa Scruggs were featured in UCSB's The Current.