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Structure Class in the Appalachians

Paul Koch to be Inducted into AAAS

Adrianna Trusiak: Science Communication Fellows Program

MGU 2016 Prize Winners

Iron Ore at 5,000 Meters

Thermochronology and the Tibetan Plateau

Landslide risk remains high a year after magnitude-7.8 Nepal earthquake

Early Human Settlement in Southeastern US

Museum Specimens Moving

Depth of Knowledge: Ocean Floor Sonar

Peeling Back the Layers

Joel Blum Calls to Embrace Federal Mercury Standards in Detroit Free Press Opinion Article

Samuel Mukasa Appointed Dean of University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering

EARTH alumna wins early career award from American Geophysical Union

Fossil and Renewable Energy Class Begins

Camp Davis Enrollment Continues to Grow

Camp Davis Open House in July and Public Activities

To the breaking point: Testing ideas about the evolution of long-necked sauropod dinosaurs

Camp Davis and the Cliff Creek Fire Update

EARTH Camp 2015

Postcards from the Field-Alaska

Anonymous Alum Pledges $1 Million to Camp Davis

Experts available to discuss earthquakes in Italy and Myanmar

1960-The Great Chilean Earthquake

Seeing is Believing: How Marie Tharp Changed Geology Forever

In Memoriam: Ruth Muriel Pritchett Dorr

Nikita La Cruz paper highlighted this week by the Geochemical Society

EARTH Camp Tours the Land Above the Bridge

Fall Ph.D. Preview

Move aside Holocene: Humans now pushing Earth into new geological era

Thumb-area Teachers to Help U-M Scientists Dig Mastodon Bones

Mastodon Bones near Mayville: University of Michigan Scientists Plan Dig

U of M Paleontologist Dan Fisher Talks About 6-Ton, Ancient Mastodon Skeleton In Michigan

New U-M Bristle Mammoth exhibit highlights the 'unfolding process of discovery'

Michigan Today: Lovely Bones

Nikita La Cruz featured in News@Gettysburg

U-M researchers map New Zealand landslides with satellites, drones, helicopters, hiking boots

Good Night Sunshine: Geoengineering Solutions to Climate Change?

Ian Winkelstern: Greenland Ice Sheet Melting Can Cool Subtropics and Alter Climate

Ingrid Hendy: New Methods Further Discern Extreme Fluctuations in Forage Fish Populations

Katharine Loughney Receives Case Student Award

Congratulations to the 2017 Student Award Winners!

Pattern of Mammal Dwarfing During Ancient Global Warming Events Revealed

Dust Plays Prominent Role in Nutrients of Mountain Forest Ecosystems

Open Positions in Earth and Environmental Sciences

Ben van der Pluijm and Ken Caldeira host a Reddit AMA

2017 Field Trip to Maryland Appalachians

Nature: A 130,000-year-old Archaeological Site in Southern California

Michigan Earth Trip to New Zealand

New Study Co-Authored by Emeritus Professor Stephen Kesler Questions Our Ideas About Mineral Scarcity

First Pete Burnard Award to Julien Amalberti

Graham Sustainability Institute Interviews Professor Rose Cory

Shaking Up the Fish Family Tree: 'Living fossil' not as old as we thought

Mastodon Discovered Near Grand Rapids to be Donated to U-M

Microbes in Permafrost Quickly Adapt to Eat Sun-Weakened Carbon

Personal Statement: Climb Every Mountain

Students and Faculty Team up to Explore Ann Arbor Microgrid Solutions

Giving BlueDay 2017

Thank you for Giving BlueDay 2017

Greg Dick receives 2018 CIGLR Postdoctoral Fellowship Award

mLive: University of Michigan plans to build 30 cabins near Yellowstone Park

University Record: New Camp Davis Cabins

An Unfrozen North

First Evidence of Surprising Ocean Warming Around Galápagos Corals

Alumna Helen Foster (PhD 1946): Rock Star

Earth and Environmental Sciences ranked in top ten graduate programs by U.S. News & World Report

Regents to discuss renaming the Clarence Cook Little Building

Regents Vote Unanimously to Remove Name of Clarence Cook Little Science Building

Student Awards at MGU 2018

Evolve Sustainability Summit

Spring Banquet 2018

Chris Poulsen Named Associate Dean of Natural Sciences

Volcanoes in Hawaii and Guatemala

Faculty Updates

2018 AGU Section Awardees and Named Lecturers

A New Year-And New Faces

EARTH Ph.D. Lorena Medina Luna in AGU Blog Article

Petroleum Experts Limited Donates MOVE Software License

A Closer Look at Crime

The Gumshoe and the Great Dying

Ocean acidification caused by high carbon dioxide levels dissolving the seafloor

Daniel Fisher on Russian Zoological Collection Quoted in New York Times

Another Successful Giving BlueDay!

EARTH MS student Molly Range featured in EOS

How to Science Podcast: Science as a Superpower

Camp Davis Reunion 2019

Adam Simon Named as Arthur F. Thurnau Professor

New Findings Shed Light on Origin of Upright Walking in Human Ancestors

Carlos Peredo Selected as Michigan Fellow

General Motors Donates Research Instrument to Earth & Environmental Sciences

Rebecca Dzombak Reflects on Graduate School-Third year: a slow-burning trial by fire

Dr. Ghanshyam D. Sharma: Thoughtfully Repaying Kindness

Congratulations to the 2019 Michigan Geophysical Union Winners!

Could Mammoth Bones Reveal When Humans First Arrived in North America?

Lake Erie earthquake detected on Ann Arbor seismograph

Four New Faces for MichiganEarth

Carbon in the Arctic: U-M faculty, Texas teacher sharing Alaskan research with public

University of Michigan Press Releases Great Lakes Rocks

Magnitude 7.1 California earthquake: U-Michigan experts available

To the Ends of the Earth

Earth Camp Crowdfunding

A 3.8-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia’s Afar region reveals the face of Lucy’s ancestor

Study of Ancient Climate Suggests Future Warming Could Accelerate as Carbon Dioxide Levels Rise

Futurity: Earth Could Warm Even Faster as Climate Change Progresses

College, a Way Out of Poverty, is a Distant Dream in Much of Rural Michigan

Alumni Advisory Board-Annual Meeting

HISTORY LESSONS: U-M’S NATURE CAMP

Camp Davis Launches New Website!

Meet me at Camp Davis

Professor Nathan Niemi named 2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow

Climate Change on Campus

U-M PROFESSORS ENVISION “A WORLD WITHOUT ICE” IN NEW EXHIBITION

A newly described fossil whale represents a new species and an important step in the evolution of whale locomotion, according to University of Michigan paleontologist Philip Gingerich and his colleagues.

Helen Foster: Living life well

Being Human in STEM

Biogenic carbonate mercury and marine temperature records reveal global influence of Late Cretaceous Deccan Traps

NextProf Science—Future Faculty Workshop

Undergraduate Trip to the Bruce Peninsula

Resources for Instructors

Mark S. Schlissel March 8

Vice Provost on Covid19 International Travel

University and College Communications Archive

LSA Technology Services Support Update March 19

Supervisor Guidance During COVID-19 Pandemic

U-M guidelines on Gov. Whitmer’s Order

Research Office Updates March 25

Update: 3/25 LSA Technology Services Support, Cathleen Curley

Undergraduate Course Grading for Winter 2020

Anne Curzan: COVID Restrictions Update 1/28/21

2020 Annual Department Awards

COVID-19 pandemic disrupts U-M research projects far and wide

Inside Higher Ed.: Faculty Home Work

Study shows potential for using fiber-optic networks to assess ground motions during earthquakes

Science salutes UM alum Andrea Dutton and 8 other trailblazing scientists.

Remote Career Panel-Natural Resources and Natural Hazards Modeling

MichiganEARTH Offers Remote Learning Opportunities

Michigan Stadium seismometer captures eerie quiet during pandemic

Climate Control with Professor Adam Simon

Joel Blum Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Take it Outside: Earth Camp featured in LSA Magazine

Michigan News: Some of the latest climate models provide unrealistically high projections of future warming

University to gradually reopen some research activity

Michigan Virtual Earth Week (ViEW)

Limited Re-opening of Laboratory Research

Arctic forecast: Sunny with a higher chance of carbon emissions

Seismic noise from humans at a record low due to COVID-19 lockdown rules

Recent Grads Share How They Adapted Their Senior Thesis Research to Fit COVID-19

Smith Lecture Series to be Virtual for Fall 2020

Fermi 2 nuclear power plant 'stable' after earthquake near Detroit Beach

How cold was the ice age? Researchers now know

The Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School in Ghana

GRE No Longer Required for Admission

U-M Maintains Ranking Among World’s Top Universities

Schlissel urges unity, civility in post-election message

Key to predicting future climate: Look back millions of years

U-M launches tool to report off-campus COVID-19 positive test results

Latest State Order Imposes Further Restrictions on Campus Activity

UM-led team in PNAS: Mercury isotopes identify near-surface marine mercury in deep-sea trench biota

Nathan Sheldon Named 2020 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow

EARTH major Lydia Pinkham's essay “Nontraditional student pathways are the new norm” appears on the Association for Women in Science website.

An Arctic Escape

University, county team up to stem spread of COVID variant

Becca Dzombak in Smithsonian Magazine: Using Soil to Make Art

U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Hearing on Climate Change

Fossil mimics may be more common in ancient rocks than actual fossils

Assistant Professor Sierra Petersen receives 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship

Major/Minor Expo 2021

Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur ‘Morosaurus’ agilis reexamined and reinterpreted as a dicraeosaurid

From stardust to pale blue dot: Carbon's interstellar journey to Earth

Great Lakes Water Levels at Near-Record Highs

Camp Davis in LSA Today

2021 Senior Profile-Olivia Mathiesen

Michigan EARTH student is fourth-generation U-M graduate for the Balogh family

University updates COVID-19 face-covering, quarantine policies

WCC Transfer Student Sabrina Lanker to join MichiganEARTH by Way of Greenland

Reduced fish abundance possible due to climate change warming deep waters in Lake Michigan

Egyptian fossil surprise: Fishes thrived in tropics in ancient warm period, despite high ocean temperatures

Lake Huron sinkhole surprise: The rise of oxygen on early Earth linked to changing planetary rotation rate

Camp Davis 2021: Back in the Saddle Again

U-M listed in top 25 of Times Higher Education world rankings

LSA Technology Services’ Peter Knoop accepts Esri’s 2021 President’s Award on Behalf of the University of Michigan

U-M ranked No. 1 public university in the U.S. by WSJ/THE

Open Position: Student Administrative Assistant

Steering Her Ship: Lydia Pinkham

Introducing CIGLR’s New Director, Dr. Gregory Dick

Professor Brian Arbic Launches Effort to Boost Ocean Science Worldwide

NextProf Science—Future Faculty Workshop 2022

California researchers, with assist from U-M, recover mammoth tusk during deep-sea expedition

‘Don’t look up’: Real-world scientists comment on new movie’s climate message

From stardust to pale blue dot: Carbon's interstellar journey to Earth

Roberto Stanley Molina Garza 1960-2021

Commencement - Friday, April 29, 2022

Michigan EARTH awarded top rankings from US News & World Report

Michigan EARTH community gathers at the first in-person commencement reception in 2 years

Earth and Environmental Sciences Field Trips 2023

2023 Michigan Earth Commencement Reception

Michigan Earth celebrates 2023 Mental Health Awareness Month

Michigan Earth students travel here and abroad for 2023 field trips

Michigan Earth celebrates Pride Month

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Unlearning Racism in Geoscience (URGE)