Department of Geosciences

Department of Geosciences

chicxulub crater cores

New research details first days after asteroid strike that killed off dinosaurs

A new position in the Department of Geosciences aims to improve diversity in the field through pioneering efforts that begin at Penn State.

Geosciences department aims to improve diversity in field with new position

Center for Sustainable Landscapes

Study Away Pittsburgh program brings sustainability learning closer to home

red, purple and orange rocks in Wyoming

Clues on how soils may respond to climate change found

lightning

Key early steps for origin of life occur under a variety of conditions

Bokol Dora 1

Earliest flaked-stone tools found in Ethiopia

Penn State graduate students visit Capitol Hill

Penn State graduate students visit Capitol Hill, discuss science-based policy

Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State.

Michael Mann awarded the 2019 Praxis Award in Professional Ethics

Penn State shield: A general image used to accompany some pieces of content on Penn State News.

Earth and Mineral Sciences graduate students recognized at research exhibition

Penn State undergraduate student Catherine Hanagan at the location of a volcano in Iceland

Erickson Discovery Grant opens doors for senior in geosciences

chess men

Decision makers need contextual interactive guidance

Fossil brachiopod shells are visible in a rock slab.

Fossils show recovery from extinction event helped shape evolutionary history

earthquake machine

Research predicts size, magnitude, timing of lab earthquakes

CO2 sequestration

Coda waves reveal carbon dioxide storage plume

glaciers and lava flows, east Greenland

Novel hypothesis goes underground to predict future of Greenland ice sheet

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