Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences

University of Rochester


News and Information

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





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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.





Frontiers in Earth Science Seminar Series

       Research Frontiers in Earth Science Seminar features and promotes the work of scientists and invited guests that wish to share their work with a receptive audience. Regular scheduled time for talks is Friday afternoons.








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