Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
University of Rochester
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Position
Posted
October, 2007: The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
invites applications for a tenure-track
assistant professor position in climate dynamics and/or
climate
system variability to begin in the 2008-09 academic year.
Latest News
The Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences Earns Top Ranking - March, 2008
Researchers in the
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences are some of the most
cited in the country, according to Thomson Scientific. Despite being
one of the nation's smallest doctorate-granting geology departments,
the department is ranked in the top 1 percent for citations.
Graduate
student Zunli Lu awarded MARGINS student prize, AGU
Fall Meeting, 2007 - March, 2008
.
Where we are presenting our work:
Geological Society of
American Annual Meeting, Denver, CO - October 28-31, 2007
Rajesh Goteti,
Gautam Mitra,
Aviva Sussman, Claudia Lewis (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Insights
into mechanical evolution of relay zones in extensional tectonic
settings using three dimensional finite element modeling.
American Geophysical
Union Annual Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA - December 10-15, 2007
A C Aronovitz, Segment linkage in Afar via magma intrusion: the birth
of a transform fault?
Rory D. Cottrell, A re-examination of directional and paleointensity
results from the
Kiaman Reversed Polarity Superchron at Kiama: A single crystal approach
Pavel V. Doubrovine, Plate circuit reconstructions and the consistency
between Pacific and non-Pacific
paleomagnetic reference frames in Late Cretaceous to Paleogene times
(80--50 Ma)
C J Ebinger, Capturing Magma Intrusion and Faulting Processes During
Continental Rupture: Seismicity of the Dabbahu (Afar) rift
C J Ebinger, Evaluating and Communicating Seismo-Volcanic Hazards
Within and Between Countries in East Africa
Udo Fehn, Time scale of iodine cycling in gas hydrate systems at active
margins: implications for the organic carbon cycle
Zunli Lu, The iodine release during organic matter degradation at
Northern Cascadia Margin: a numerical approach
Allison B. Sail, The paleointensity of single silicate crystals from
the Southern
Volcanics of the Chatham Islands: What is the behavior of Earth's
magnetic field leaving a superchron state?
John A. Tarduno, Constraints on Earth's oldest magnetic field
John A. Tarduno, Motion of Pacific mantle plumes
Anna K. Wendt, Preliminary paleointensity investigation of Iron Age
pottery shards from southern Africa
Attention Alumni!
We want to hear from you! Please, drop us a note so that we can let
everyone know how and what you are doing! Feel free to email us at alumni@earth.rochester.edu.
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