Welcome to our newest graduate students! We are excited to see where your graduate research takes each of you—on Earth or other planetary bodies. #Fall2024

Interested in the Earth? Us to! We'd love to have you at our welcome event next Monday at 4pm in Strong Hall 105 to meet some of our advisors. Snacks included.

We're always excited one of our graduate students! Congratulations to Braden Coats (MS ’24) for receiving a 2024 National Association of Geoscience Teachers Outstanding TA Award. Braden was nominated for his outstanding teaching in Introduction to Environmental Geology.

Our department has several new faculty this semester that we're excited to introduce to you too. First, meet Dr. Anner Paldor! Dr. Paldor is a computational hydrologist who is passionate about increasing accessibility to freshwater resources. Anner Paldor

Meet our new post doc, Dr. Kat Jordan-Burmeister! Her research interests include #Paleozoic #trilobites, paleobiology patterns of the Paleozoic, phylogenetic methods, and modelling. She is excited to talk to undergrads about potential research experience! Kat Jordan

4th PhD chapter is out now! (a short-ish paper at JVP) We report a poor dugong with predation evidence from a crocodilian and possible subsequent scavenging by sharks from the Miocene of Venezuela :D Of course the artwork by BranArtworks|| Paleoart & Illustration🐳🐬🦭🎨 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Meet Dr. Emily Simpson, a new lecturer. She is a paleoecologist and mostly uses the chemistry of ancient teeth to tease apart how animals interacted with the world around them. Most recently, she’s been working on large mammals from 34 million years ago in Egypt. #womeninSTEM

Happy #WorldWildlifeDay! Our students go on some incredible adventures and we're pretty proud of them. Owen Singleton spent the summer interning at Zoo Knoxville . He is an undergraduate student working with Dr. Drumheller-Horton's lab Stephanie Drumheller

Join us in Strong Hall B-1 at 4 pm! Dr. Simon Jowitt from the University of Nevada-Reno will speak about "Climate change, critical metals, and the energy transition: Understanding key relationships and the importance of the minerals industry for viable climate change mitigation."

Dr. Anna Szynkiewicz currently has ceramic mosaics on display at the Emporium portraying what her students have learned from her courses and the Mars mission. The exhibit will be on display until September 28th. knoxalliance.com/anna-szynkiewi… #STEAM

Before the dinosaurs... before flowering plants or mammals.... What was happening in ecosystems 320 million years ago? Jake Benner is helping fill in what we know about our planet's ancient plants and animals. You can read the new paper here: nature.com/articles/s4146…

What can slivers of rock tell us about the interior of the Earth? Join us tomorrow at 4:05 pm in Strong Hall B1 to hear guest lecturer Dr. Suzanne Birner speak on "Demystifying the Mantle: Thermodynamic and Geochemical Heterogeneity within Mid-Ocean Ridge Peridotites."

How do planet's landscapes form?What shaped the rocks of Earth and Mars? Dr. Goudge from University of Texas, Austin, will be talking about “Spatial Patterns of Valley Network Erosion on Early Mars” in seminar this week. Join us at 4:05 PM in Strong Hall B1. Join us! Tim Goudge