Faculty and Student Awards
- Graduate Student Ashley Hanna won an Outstanding Student Presentation Award at the AGU 2024 Annual Meeting.
- Graduate student Karla Núñez has been selected for the Graduate School’s Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award for the 2024-2025 academic year.
- Fang-Zhen Teng (Ph.D '05) received a UMD Alumni Excellence Award in Research. This award recognizes alumni that make positive impacts on the world through their research. read more...
- Graduate Student Madeline Raith won a NASA FINESST Award to study Mars mineralogy.
Upcoming Events
Jiayang Sun Dissertation Defense
Thursday, April 10, 2025
1:00 pm
ARC 0204
Methane Source Apportionment using Clumped Isotopologues
Colloquium - Jasmina Wiemann from Johns Hopkins University
Friday, April 18, 2025
11:00 am
ESJ 0215
Life finds a way: Time-integrated biosignatures reveal the mechanisms of evolution on Earth and beyond
Jacob Giles Thesis Defense
Monday, April 21, 2025
9:00 am
PLS 1140
Recent Graduate and Undergraduate Student Publications
James Bader et al. (2024) Effects of Stress-Driven Melt Segregation on Melt Orientation, Melt Connectivity and Anisotropic Permeability. Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth. 123(3) e2023JB028065.
Jiayang Sun and Farquhar. (2024) Fully resolved high-precision measurement of 36S for sulfur reference materials. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 38(14) e9768.
Lori Willhite et al. (2024) Oxygen Fugacity of Ocean Island Basalts. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 25(1) e2023GC011249.
Sydney Shelton et al. (2024) Salty chemical cocktails as water quality signatures: Longitudinal trends and breakpoints along different U.S. streams. Science of the Total Environment. 930 172777.
Lori Willhite et al. (2024) Evolution of tungsten isotope systematics in the Mauna Kea volcano provides new constraints on anomalous µ182W and high 3He/4He in the mantle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 640 118795.