We have an exciting blog to share today. Ph.D. student Logan Mitchell is spending two months working at the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide research station in Antarctica, as a member of a National Science Foundation-funded project that aims to collect a 3.5 kilometer-long ice core over three summer seasons. The intention is to […]
Archive for the ‘Geosciences’ Category
Transmissions from the Ice Sheet
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008Tiny Bubbles Continue to Tell All
Thursday, October 9th, 2008OSU Media Release: Ice Core Studies Confirm Accuracy of Climate Models This is Dr. Ed Brook holding an ancient ice core sample, which he keeps in a special freezer in the basement of Wilkinson Hall. If you’re willing to wear a special suit, we can show them to you in person some time. The cores […]
OSU GeoClub in Death Valley, Part II
Thursday, August 7th, 2008Today we’re sharing the final photos from the Geosciences Club’s Death Valley trip. Thanks to Barry Walker for providing the photo descriptions in both posts.
Good Sense of Humor Goes a Long Way
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008This spring, Dr. Roger Nielsen completed his service as Chair of the Department of Geosciences. Folks here at the Breakthroughs in Science HQ Annex are utterly grateful for his leadership. Roger is the best when it comes to helping us attract funding for science breakthroughs, plus he’s got a great, dry sense of humor–you might […]
OSU GeoClub in Death Valley – Pictures!
Friday, July 25th, 2008This is part one of a two part entry, come back next week to view part two. All photos can be clicked-on to view a larger version! Stay tuned for more photos next week!
OSU GeoClub in the Pyrenees – Pictures!
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008In 2007, the OSU Geo Club took a trip to Spain to explore the Pyrenees mountains. Below the slideshow, we’ve listed some of the highlights from their itinerary… To view this slideshow, click play, then click play again in the new window. Make a Smilebox slideshow June 2: Arrive in Barcelona June 3-4: Tourism in […]
OSU to offer new graduate certificate in water conflict management
Friday, May 16th, 2008Coming soon! The Graduate Certificate in Water Conflict Management and Transformation is designed to provide decision-makers, graduate students and water professionals with the required specialized resources and skills that go beyond the traditional physical systems approach to water resources management. It will explicitly integrate human, policy and scientific dimensions of water resources within the framework […]
Ed Brook named Leopold Fellow
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008Congratulations to Ed Brook, Associate Professor in the Department of Geosciences, who was selected as one of the 2008 Leopold Leadership Fellows! Based at Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment, the Leopold Leadership Program was founded in 1998 and is funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Each year the program selects up […]
Neighboring fault a bad influence; College of Science’s Chris Goldfinger a good influence
Thursday, April 17th, 2008Geologists: Neighboring fault a bad influence (Inside Bay Area) In what may be a dangerous example of keeping up with the Joneses, the San Andreas fault appears to be taking cues from a deadly neighboring fault zone offshore near Oregon and Washington. By searching for evidence of underwater sand deposits caused by major earthquakes to […]
Terra: A World of Research and Creativity at OSU
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008At the right of this page, you’ll see a few hotlinks to sites that might also be of interest, including Terra, OSU’s research magazine. It’s excellent. One of the features of the Winter 2008 issue cites new funding from Oregon SeaGrant to support OSU scientists in the Departments of Zoology and Geoscience, who have documented a slow but steady takeover of […]
