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School of Earth Sciences

New book by Professor Steve Gorelick: Oil Panic and the Global Crisis
11/18/2009
Earth's early ocean cooled more than a billion years earlier than thought
11/12/2009
Kaj Johnson (PhD '04 geophysics) first winner of AGU Tectonophysics Outstanding Young Researcher Award
11/09/2009
Prof Norm Sleep and Postdoctoral Scholar Darcy Ogden (geophysics) propose new trigger for the Great Dying
11/09/2009
Professor Rob Dunbar (EESS) to receive 2009 Richard W. Lyman Award
11/02/2009
Asst Prof Jonathan Payne (GES) reports on Earth's growth spurts
10/28/2009
Professor Rosemary Knight (GP) awarded lifetime membership in SEG
10/28/2009
Indrajit Das (GP) and Nick Van Buer (GES) take 2nd place in 4th Annual SEG Challenge Bowl Finals
10/28/2009
EESS Asst Prof David Lobell co-author of article on crop yield gaps
10/23/2009
Senate confirms geophysics professor Marcia McNutt as head of U.S. Geological Survey
10/23/2009
Margot Gerritsen answers questions as part of Stanford's Open Office Hours on Facebook
10/13/2009
Asst Prof Noah Diffenbaugh (EESS) co-leader of study on how climate change could deepen poverty in developing countries
10/06/2009
GES Emeritus Prof Irwin Remson to receive 2009 Ross L. Oliver Award from the National Ground Water Assoc
09/29/2009
ERE PhD student Ekin Ozdogan won the Outstanding Poster Award
09/24/2009
Kate Miller, (MS '88, PhD '91 Geophysics) Named Dean of Texas A&M College of Geosciences
09/18/2009
EESS Prof Chris Field to receive Heinz Award
09/15/2009
EESS Prof Roz Naylor lead author of study on how fish farm boom strains wild stock
09/10/2009
Geophysics receives one of 19 DOE grants for projects to enhance the capability to simulate, track, and evaluate the potential risks of CO2 storage in geologic formations
08/31/2009
Storing carbon dioxide underground in aquifers in China could lessen the effects of global warming
08/31/2009
Matthew Polizzotto (PhD '07, GES) named AAAS Diplomacy Fellow with US Agency for International Development's Office of Natural Resources Management
08/26/2009
Pamela Matson featured in National Academies new video "America's Climate Choices"
08/07/2009
Gretchen Daily wins $420,000 award for finding ways to save biodiversity
08/05/2009
E-IPER student Mehana Vaughan selected as a 2009 Switzer Environmental Fellow
07/30/2009
Earth Systems' Alex McInturff walks in Muir's footsteps
07/23/2009
Mark Zoback: Carbon sequestration may enhance energy production
07/15/2009
Obama nominates geophysics professor and MBARI CEO to run USGS
07/13/2009
Tremor patterns under San Andreas fault offer insights into earthquakes
07/10/2009
Brian Halweil, Earth Systems alumnus, to manage Worldwatch Sustainable Agriculture Project
07/10/2009
Global warming tactic cools climate but won’t help corals, say Stanford researchers
07/08/2009
Scientists pass solid particles through rock: Geothermal energy gets a boost from nanotech in the drive for renewable energy.
06/29/2009
Nanotracer successfully finds its way though the rock pore network
06/29/2009
Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP) encounters "live" magma
06/26/2009
Study highlights massive imbalances in global fertilizer use
06/25/2009
High-altitude winds: The greatest source of concentrated energy on Earth
06/23/2009
Congratulations to Rebecca Pass, winner of the 2009 Award for Outstanding Service to the Earth Systems Program
06/16/2009
Congratulations to Earth Systems student Daniel Karp, winner of the 2009 Miller-Marsden Prize for Innovative Environmental Research
06/16/2009
Congratulations to Matthew Gribble, winner of the 2009 Earth Systems Award for Outstanding Research
06/16/2009
Earth Systems students Ben Graves and Samantha Staley are 2009 recipients of the Centennial Teaching Assistant Award
06/12/2009
Earth Systems student John Mulrow is the 2009 recipient of the William W. Whitley Citizen Scholar Award
06/12/2009
Justine Kimball, EESS grad student, wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
06/03/2009
Maria H. Gudmundsdottir, GES undergrad, wins Outstanding Student Paper Award at AGU, Tectonophysics Section
06/03/2009
Page Chamberlain (EESS), Steve Gorelick (EESS), and Kate Maher (GES) are among the recipients of the Woods Institute's Environmental Venture Projects Awards
05/27/2009
Get answers to your sustainability questions from SAGE (Sound Advice for a Green Earth)
05/15/2009
Chris Field (EESS), David Lobell: Bioelectricity promises more 'miles per acre' than ethanol
05/13/2009
Yu Lin (GES), Wendy Mao (GES): High-pressure Compound Could Be Key to Hydrogen-powered Vehicles
05/11/2009
Stanford@SEA to set sail across the Pacific
05/04/2009
Karen Knee (GES) won an Outstanding Student Paper award at AGU
05/01/2009
Karen Knee (GES) won an AAAS Science and Engineering Mass Media Fellowship
05/01/2009
Indrajit Das (GP) won an SEG Foundation Scholarship award
04/30/2009
Gboyega Ayeni (GP) and Yemi Arogunmati (GP) won an SEG Special Project of Merit grant
04/30/2009
Dean Pamela Matson elected as an Einstein Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
04/29/2009
Eric Lambin (to join EESS faculty in January 2010) has been elected as a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences
04/29/2009
2009 School of Earth Sciences Research Review Winners!
04/27/2009
Sally Benson (ERE) has been selected to be the 2009 Halbouty Lecturer by the Geological Society of America
04/22/2009
Geeta Persad (GP, undergrad) is one of 2 Stanford students selected to receive the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship for 2009
04/16/2009
Earth Sciences Faculty Comment on Petroleum Research
04/15/2009
Matt Coble (GES) is this year's Stanford-USGS Fellow
04/15/2009
Alex McInturff (ESYS) sets out to retrace John Muir's walk to Yosemite
04/06/2009
ERE students triumph at SPE Western Regional student paper contest
04/03/2009
Howard Zebker (GP): Subterranean oceans on Saturn's moon Titan
04/03/2009
William R. Evitt, Professor Emeritus of Geology, Dies at 86
04/02/2009
Annemarie Baltay (GP) Receives 2008 Fall Meeting Outstanding Student Paper Award Recipient (Seismology Section)
04/01/2009
Indrajit Das (GP) and Nick Van Buer (GES) Win the 2009 SEG Rocky Mountain Challenge Bowl!
03/31/2009
Elliot Grunewald (GP) and Vanessa Mitchell (GP) receive the 2008 AGU Fall Meeting Outstanding Student Paper Award in Near-Surface Geophysics
03/31/2009
Scott Fendorf (EESS): Scientists solve puzzle of arsenic-poisoning crisis in Asia
03/26/2009
Branner Library given historical AAA maps
03/22/2009
Kevin Arrigo (EESS) and Margot Gerritsen (ERE) were named as Leopold Leadership Fellows
03/15/2009
IPER is now E-IPER: $10 million gift for environmental program
03/11/2009
Pam Matson: The Science of Media Relations
03/10/2009
Rob Dunbar's NOAA Mission Discovers Seven New Species of Deep-Sea Bamboo Coral
03/10/2009
Exxon Mobil Chief Lauds GCEP's Energy Research
02/23/2009
Chris Field (EESS): Global warming damage could be worse than predicted
02/19/2009
Bob Kovach (GP) was recognized by the American Geophysical Union for his 50 years as a member
02/11/2009
Marco Einaudi (Professor Emeritus, GES) to receive the Penrose Gold Medal at the SEG-GSA Conference in October 2009
02/10/2009
Julie Sweetkind-Singer (Branner Library) discusses Stanford's new collection of old maps
02/06/2009
GCEP announces $5.6 million in research awards
02/05/2009
Maps of the Past: San Francisco collector donates 150,000 maps to Stanford
02/04/2009
Page Chamberlain (EESS) has been elected as a Geochemistry Fellow by the Geochemical Society & European Association for Geochemistry
02/02/2009
Jonathan Stebbens (GES) has been elected as a Geochemistry Fellow by the Geochemical Society & European Association for Geochemistry
02/02/2009
Stanford launches $100 million initiative to tackle energy issues
01/12/2009
Chris Field (EESS) named a fellow by AAAS
01/07/2009
Jonathan Payne (GES): Life got bigger in two, million-fold leaps
01/05/2009
Dennis Bird (GES), Richard Nevle (GES): Reforestation helped trigger Little Ice Age
12/17/2008
Norm Sleep (GP) in NY Times article "A New View of the Early Earth"
12/01/2008
Kevin Arrigo (EESS): Death bloom of plankton a warning on warming
11/21/2008
Recent graduate David Shelly (GP) has been awarded the first Keiiti Aki award by the American Geophysical Union
11/10/2008
Visiting Blaustein professor Brian McAdoo featured in Nature video "Ancient Tsunami Records"
10/29/2008
Jasper Ridge: Research in the field at Stanford’s biological preserve
10/23/2008
Justin Brown won a Seismological Society of America outstanding student presentation award.
10/20/2008
Gary Ernst is the 2008 recipient of AGI's Marcus Milling Legendary Geoscientist Award.
10/20/2008
Roland Horne in Washington Post: Filipinos Draw Power From Buried Heat
10/09/2008
Wanted: amateurs to help track earthquakes
09/29/2008
Jesse Lawrence and the Quake-Catcher Network featured in The Economist
09/29/2008
Sebastien Matringe takes 1st Place in the SPE International Student Paper Contest
09/26/2008
Sun Microsystems Names CEES an OPENSPARC Center of Excellence
09/05/2008
Scott Fendorf featured in July 24th Nature Podcast
07/28/2008
2008 Commencement Photos are now online!
06/24/2008
Mark Zoback awarded the 2008 AGU Walter H. Bucher medal
06/19/2008
George Thompson awarded Penrose Medal from GSA
05/30/2008
Simon Klemperer awarded 2008 Cox Medal for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research
05/29/2008
Stanford's first all-female PhD committee in Engineering or Earth Sciences
05/06/2008
Deana Fabbro-Johnston, Associate Director in the Earth Systems Program, is a 2008 recipient of the Amy J. Blue Award
04/23/2008
Andreas Mulch: Mountains reached current elevation earlier than thought
04/23/2008
Marianne Karplus was selected to receive a three-year NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
04/22/2008
SUN Microsystems names CEES an OpenSPARC Center of Excellence
04/09/2008
Recently retired, Amos Nur feted during 2-day event
04/09/2008
Stanford wins at SPE Western Regional Student Paper Contest
04/07/2008
Jolene Robin-McCaskill Receives SMART Scholarship
04/02/2008
Justin Brown receives 2007 AGU Fall Meeting Outstanding Student Paper Award
03/13/2008
Kaushik Bandyopadhyay receives 2007 AGU Fall Meeting Outstanding Student Paper Award
03/12/2008
IPER featured in Stanford Challenge video
03/06/2008
Julie Kennedy was named a University Fellow in Undergraduate Education
02/08/2008
Greg Beroza was elected a fellow of AGU
02/08/2008
Evidence Mounts for Electromagnetic Earthquake Precursors
12/18/2007
Antony Fraser-Smith: Large earthquakes may broadcast warnings, but is anyone tuning in to listen
12/13/2007
Jerry Harris was named 2008 Engineer of Distinction by Univ. of Mississippi
12/07/2007
Stanford launches program to prepare diverse doctoral students for academic careers
12/04/2007
ERE students win SPE International Student Paper Contest, November 2007
11/29/2007
Video interview with Margot Gerritsen discussing her SmartEnergy Show
11/29/2007
Margot Gerritsen: With growth of blogging on campus, Stanford gets caught up in Web 2.0
11/28/2007
Community invited to memorial planned Monday for Edmund Chang, geologist
11/28/2007
Christina Riesselman (GES) to be featured in video teleconference series broadcast from McMurdo Station, Antarctica starting Nov. 28.
11/26/2007
David Pollard and co-author Ray Fletcher were awarded the Best Publication of the Year Award at GSA
11/19/2007
Pam Matson, Anne Egger: Fund Supports Innovative Pedagogy
11/12/2007
Stanford Geothermal Workshop, January 28-30, 2008
11/09/2007
IPER PhD Student Rodrigo Pizarro's project on Integrated Salmon-Seaweed Cultivation wins the 2007 Intel Environment Award
11/08/2007
Email service on pangea is now terminated.
11/02/2007
Rob Dunbar on NPR series exploring the Palmyra Atoll
10/29/2007
Rebecca Goldman (IPER): How to think like a lawyer without changing career paths
10/24/2007
Julie Kennedy: Group hopes small guide will have big impact on environment
10/19/2007
Pam Matson on Panel addressing Global Security and Climate Change
10/16/2007
IPER alum Mike Mastrandrea associated with Nobel Prize for Gore and IPCC
10/15/2007
Mark Zoback: Geologists recover rocks yielding unprecedented insights into San Andreas Fault
10/04/2007
Gordon Brown and his co-authors will receive the 2007 AEESP Outstanding Paper Award at the WEFTEC Conference in October
09/25/2007
Gordon Brown received the Hawley Medal from the Mineralogical Association of Canada at the Frontiers in Minerals Sciences 2007 Meeting in June
09/05/2007
Greg Asner: Forest protection works in Peru
08/22/2007
Juhn G. Liou is the tenth most cited Geoscience author during 1996-2007 as determined by a Thomson Scientific study
08/19/2007
Mark Zoback: Scientists find clue to 'creeping' along San Andreas Fault - talc
08/16/2007
Jonathan Payne: What a 250-million-year-old extinction event can tell us about the Earth today
08/08/2007
Lou Durlofsky will be awarded the Lester C. Uren Award for distinguished achievement before age 45 at the November SPE meeting
07/13/2007
Roland Horne will be awarded Honorary SPE Membership, the highest honor SPE bestows on an individual, at the November meeting
07/13/2007
Karen Seto: Satellite images reveal link between urban growth and changing rainfall patterns
07/03/2007
Congratulations to Jacqueline Roxana Crespo, winner of the 2007 Award for Outstanding Service to the Earth Systems Program
06/18/2007
Congratulations to Lynda Jean Bowen Browning, winner of the 2007 Earth Systems Award for Outstanding Research
06/18/2007
Congratulations to Alison Agnew Whipple, winner of the 2007 Earth Systems Award for Outstanding Research
06/18/2007
Congratulations to Arianna Leik Lambie, winner of the 2007 Earth Systems Award for Academic Excellence at the Undergraduate Level
06/18/2007
Earth Systems student Kendall Madden is the 2007 recipient of the Rhoda Goldman Award for Interdisciplinary Research in the Goldman Honors Program in Environmental Science, Technology, and Policy
06/18/2007
Congratulations to Ellen Mallman, winner of the Geophysics Student Citizenship award!
06/18/2007
Yuanlin Jiang wins the 2007 Ramey Award
06/15/2007
Sally Benson, Tony Kovscek, Lynn Orr, and Mark Zoback among researchers examining carbon capture and storage to combat global warming
06/14/2007
Heather Lukacs was a recipient of the 2007 Centennial Teaching Assistant Award
06/13/2007
Kyle Anderson was a recipient of the 2007 Centennial Teaching Assistant Award
06/13/2007
Uwe Martens was a recipient of the 2007 Centennial Teaching Assistant Award
06/13/2007
José Akamine Ramírez was a recipient of the 2007 Centennial Teaching Assistant Award
06/13/2007
Earth Systems student Lyndie Browning is a 2007 recipient of the Centennial Teaching Assistant Award
06/11/2007
Three SPE presidents, three Stanford Earth Sciences PhDs
06/11/2007
Earth Systems student Jill Bible is a 2007 recipient of the Centennial Teaching Assistant Award
06/08/2007
Earth Systems student Erin Gaines is the 2007 recipient of the William W. Whitley Citizen Scholar Award
06/08/2007
Earth Systems student Kendall Madden is the 2007 recipient of the Miller-Marsden Prize for Innovative Environmental Research
06/08/2007
Gary Ernst honored by GSA with book titled "Convergent Margin Terranes and Associated Regions: A Tribute to W.G. Ernst"
06/06/2007
David Shelly received an Honorable Mention in the MARGINS student prize competition for his Fall 2006 AGU presentation
05/30/2007
Pijush Paul was awarded the James W. Lyons Award for service to the greater Stanford community
05/30/2007
Earth Systems alumna Karen Hyun (BS 2000, MS 2003) was named a 2007/2008 John A. Knauss Fellow
05/25/2007
Earth Systems alumna Karen Hyun (BS 2000, MS 2003) was named a 2007/2008 Robert and Patricia Switzer Fellow
05/25/2007
Carmen Gomez received the SEG Foundation's Scholarship Program Educational Award
05/16/2007
Earth Systems students Nicolai Schlag, Samuel Shrank, Erin Gaines, and Samantha Staley were elected to Phi Beta Kappa
05/16/2007
Ben Saenz was awarded the NASA Earth Sciences Graduate Fellowship: A Multi-Decadal, Multi-Sensor Investigation of Primary Production within the Antarctic Ice Pack
05/11/2007
Pamela Matson reflects on protecting the planet without harming its people in the May issue of Stanford Magazine
05/10/2007
Pamela Matson received the National Resource Ecology Lab's 2007 Eminent Ecologist Award
05/09/2007
Amy Day-Lewis received a SSA Student Presentation Award at the 2007 meeting
05/09/2007
Kyle Anderson is the 2007-08 Stanford USGS Fellow
05/09/2007
Rotimi Awoleke & Bin Gong won in both categories of the SPE Western Region Student Paper Contest
05/09/2007
David Pollard was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
05/09/2007
Molly Palmer won first place in the 2007 School of Earth Sciences Research Review poster presentation
04/30/2007
The Winter 2007 Miller Award was awarded to Wentao Zhou
04/20/2007
Adina Paytan received the 2007 Ellen Weaver Award from the Association for Women in Science, Northern CA Chapters
04/19/2007
Kate Mackey received an Outstanding Student Paper Award for her AGU 2006 Fall presentation
04/19/2007
ERE students win first places in both divisions of the SPE Western Regional Paper Contest
04/16/2007
Rob Dunbar: Ancient Malindi coral reef tells story of soil erosion in Kenya
04/11/2007
Gordon Brown to receive Roebling Medal in October at GSA
04/10/2007
Holmes Hummel named one of two 2007-08 AAAS Congressional Science Fellows
04/09/2007
Steve Graham received AAPG's Grover E. Murray Memorial Distinguished Educator Award
04/04/2007
Gordon Brown to receive Patterson Medal from Geochemical Society
04/02/2007
Lynn Orr: GCEP awards record $15 million for energy research at Stanford and other universities
03/28/2007
Computational Earth and Environmental Science Center and Carnegie Institution to collaborate on global environmental research
03/23/2007
Shelly, Beroza: Scientists explain source of mysterious tremors emanating from fault zones
02/27/2007
Brendan Roark awarded Sir Keith Murdoch Fellowship from the American Australian Association
02/27/2007
Sally Benson named executive director of GCEP
02/20/2007
Egill Juliusson received first place in the Student Paper Awards at the Geothermal Resources Council Annual Conference
02/19/2007
Ellen Mallman received an Outstanding Student Paper Award for her AGU 2006 presentation
02/19/2007
Kirsten Oleson: The Kyoto Protocol is an important catalyst, and carbon finance is its most powerful tool
02/15/2007
Pamela Matson among Stanford Faculty headliners at AAAS
02/13/2007
Greg Beroza: Charles Richter, Man of Magnitude (Book Review)
01/26/2007
Adina Paytan preaches power of passion for ocean
01/17/2007
Jennifer Saltzman, Adina Paytan: Outreach program puts children in geologists' shoes
01/09/2007
Chris Francis: From hot springs to rice farms, new insights into the secret lives of archaea
01/09/2007
Khalid Aziz received the Petroleum Society of Canada's Lifetime Achievement Award.
01/04/2007
The 2006 New Zealand Geophysics Prize was awarded to John Townend and Mark Zoback
01/04/2007
Paul Segall: Scientists introduce new model for forecasting the likelihood of an earthquake
11/29/2006
Adina Paytan, Jennifer Saltzman: For first graders, geology not just a rocky road
11/29/2006
Hannah Ross, With John Runge, received Best Student Paper Award, AAPG Rocky Mountain Section
11/19/2006
Steve Gorelick received the 2005 Best Paper Award, Computers & Geosciences, IAMG
11/19/2006
Lecture series to explore China's rapid modernization
11/17/2006
Integrating work and family matters to Dean Pamela Matson
11/17/2006
Scholars learn to communicate plainly the science of climate change
10/27/2006
Lynn Orr: GCEP announces $1.15 million in research awards
10/27/2006
GCEP: Forum examines technologies aimed at reducing greenhouse gases
10/03/2006
Department of Petroleum Engineering adopts new name, expanded mission
09/01/2006
The Department of Petroleum Engineering has changed its name to Energy Resources Engineering
07/26/2006
David Shelly, Greg Beroza: Tiny tremors, temblors may offer clues about large quakes
07/13/2006
Page Chamberlain, Stephan Graham, Andreas Mulch: Ancient Raindrops provide evidence of Sierra Origins
07/13/2006
2006 Earth Sciences Commencement photos online
06/21/2006
CEES: Sun and Earth
06/21/2006
Earth Sciences Teaching Assistants Awarded
06/14/2006
Joshua Goldstein, Pamela Matson: Land Conservation efforts offer rewards for cattle ranchers
06/14/2006
Jerry Harris: Computing Center to be dedicated
06/14/2006
Rob Dunbar: Extolling the value of fieldwork
06/01/2006
Greg Beroza: Q&A - Great S.F. Earthquake continues to educate
04/18/2006
Adina Paytan: 18 environmental researchers named 2006 Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellows
03/22/2006
CEES is the host for the Smart Fields Consortium
03/20/2006
Stanford launches Center for Computational Earth & Environmental Sciences.
03/20/2006
Lynn Orr: GCEP announces new energy research programs totalling nearly $8 million
03/07/2006
Rob Dunbar, Azadeh Tabazadeh: Scientists recommend change now to lessen climate-change effects
03/07/2006
Margot Gerritsen: Biases must be tackled to achieve gender equity in mathematics
02/24/2006
Mark Zoback: Unearthing explanations for New Madrid temblors
02/22/2006
Adina Paytan: Groundwater key nutrient for coral reefs
01/26/2006
Rob Dunbar: Palmyra research station launched
01/19/2006
Howard Zebker: Satellite technology aids detection of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes
01/19/2006
Greg Beroza: Geophysicists revisit the 1906 quake and come up with a new model
12/05/2005