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Below you will find archived news articles about research and outreach activities in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.

2021 News | 2020 News | 2019 News | 2018 News | 2017 News

2021 News Stories

Douglas Edmonds

Landscape evolution under the southern Laurentide Ice Sheet

Dr. David Polly wins the 2021 Screwball trophy

EAS Professor Travis O'Brien Co-Author on GRL Paper

EAS Professor Emeritus David Bish Receives Clay Minerals Society's Highest Award

EAS Dr. Shelby Rader Promoted to Assistant Professor

Simon Brassell

EAS Professor Simon Brassell Receives AGU Honors

Roger Bilham Tudor Lecturer

EAS Professor Travis O'Brien is working on a DOE project studying water resources

Michael W. Hamburger

EAS Professor Michael Hamburger to moderate a Themester webinar on Haiti

IU seismograph records major earthquake in Haiti

8.2 Earthquake in Alaska Recorded by BLO Seismic Station

Ben Kravitz

EAS Assistant Professor Ben Kravitz's Opinion on Climate Engineering

IU students advise US Embassy in Mexico City on disaster risk reduction

What Caused the June 18 2021 Bloomington Flood?

Earthquake in Indiana!

Harrison Martin

EAS Graduate Student Harrison Martin receives NASA Fellowship

Michael W. Hamburger

EAS Professor Michael Hamburger Discusses Diplomacy Lab in Kelley CIBER Interview

Ben Kravitz

EAS Faculty Member Ben Kravitz Named Top Climate Scientest by Reuters

Three students sitting in a mountainous location

EAS Undergraduate Students Elected to Phi Beta Kappa

Claudia Johnson

EAS Faculty Claudia C. Johnson named Herman B. Wells Professor

Jeffrey Valenza

EAS Graduate Student Jeff Valenza awarded NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship

EAS Graduate Student Harrison Martin awarded dissertation year fellowship

EAS E116 Our Planet and Its Future will be taught in Salerno, Italy in 2022

Dr. Lucy Jones is the Tudor Memorial Lecture speaker

EAS Graduate Student Elizabeth Sherrill's article featured in EOS

Clark DeLisle

Graduate Student Clarke DeLisle receives OSP award from AGU

Sarah Burgess and Lee Florea featured in groundwater podcast

EAS postdoc Silvia Pineda-Munoz is first author on a paper in PNAS

2020 News Stories

Undergraduate research opportunities in EAS

EAS Undergraduate students elected to Phi Beta Kappa

EAS Post-Doc Silvia Pineda Munoz Wins Smithsonian Research Award

The Rise and Fall of the Tallest Mammal to Walk the Earth

EAS Faculty Jess Miller-Camp Reviews Rebels, Scholars, Explorers

EAS Faculty and Grad Students Helped Bring the 2020 Science Fest to Life

Douglas Edmonds

EAS Faculty Doug Edmonds published a Nature Communications paper on coastal flooding

Christina Friberg

EAS Post-Doc Christina Friberg published "The Making of Mississippian Tradition"

Environmental Research Initiative Wins IDEM Governor's Award

EAS Faculty Receive Multiple Grants in Summer 2020

Former Student Yifei (Faye) Liu Named College's '20 Under '40 Alumni

Paul Staten

Saharan dust makes its way to Bloomington

Lisa Pratt

Lisa Pratt, NASA Planetary Protection Officer, is preparing for the July MSR launch

Michael W. Hamburger

June 10: "COVID-19, Climate Change, and the Future of Civilization"

Michael W. Hamburger

IU Diplomacy Lab Works With US Embassy in Mexico City

Geology building entrance

EAS Faculty Receive Trustees Teaching Awards

We are celebrating our students!

Chen Zhu

Professor Chen Zhu Named 2021 Darcy Lecturer

Danielle Peltier-Thompson

EAS Graduate Student Awarded McCormick Science Grant

Praise and Encouragement for EAS Staff and Students

Michael W. Hamburger

EAS Professor Michael Hamburger writes about Earth Day

Chen Zhu

Researchers Jennifer Dierauer and Chen Zhu Published Article on Drought in the Wabash Valley

Tara Smiley

ERI Research Fellow Tara Smiley has a new study on climate and land use challenges to biodiversity.

EAS Labs Donate PPE to IU Health

IU Alumni Chris Maples elected President of the GSA Foundation

IPE announces student research funding opportunities

IU creates climate change data portal to model state's future water supply

Paul Staten

EAS Professor Paul Staten Awarded CLIVAR

Announcing a new Undergraduate Research Fellowship

EAS Faculty Doug Edmonds author on Nature article

Callout meeting for E190: Treks in Provence

2020 Crossroads Conference

EAS-IUGFS Alumni Reception

2019 News Stories

We're Moving!

EAS participated in the 2019 Science Fest

EAS to participate in the 2019 Science Fest

Edward Herrmann

EAS Faculty Ed Herrmann Named First Director of the new Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

EAS at First Thursday and Dronepalooza

Students wading in water

IUGFS Students Receive NAGT/USGS Summer Internships

Two students using a compass for field research

EAS Students Receive GSA Awards

Claudia Johnson Named GSA Fellow

Jim Handschy

Jim Handschy Named GSA Fellow

Ben Kravitz

EAS Professor Ben Kravitz is Featured in Science Node Article on Countering Climate Change

35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Organic Petrology

IU Geologic Field Station Celebrates 70 Years

Paul Staten

Paul Staten is a Guest Editor of Atmosphere Special Issue

Geology building entrance

The annual Crossroads Conference is coming up!

2018 News Stories

Student talking to a potential employer

Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Career Roundtable

Arndt Schimmelmann shows bottles of tropical honey, oils and rice on a table

EAS Research Scientist Arndt Schimmelmann Receives Fulbright

Department mascot, a T. Rex, poses with a sign for "Earth Week"

Earth Week Meet and Greet

Close up of a handshake

Save the Date: Fall Recruiting

Geology building entrance

Career Opportunity: Assistant/Associate Professor in Regional Climate Modeling

Garbage can experiment exploding

Science Fest is Almost Here

Paul Staten

Professor Paul Staten on the Weather Channel

Important information about course name changes

Larry Onesti

EAS Mourns the Passing of Colleague Dr. Larry Onesti

Garbage can experiment exploding

The 2018 Science Fest Details

2018 Summer Science Institute

IU researchers develop model for predicting landslides caused by earthquakes

Two women smiling running up a hill

X188/190 Volcanoes of the Eastern Sierra Nevadas

Screenshot of a web conference of people sitting around a conference table with American flag in background

Students from Environmental and Energy Diplomacy Course Featured in IU News Article

Atmospheric Sciences student internships for Summer 2018

Curiosity Rover: IU Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Mars research

Diplomacy Lab Symposium

IU Day EAS Meet and Greet

Recent EAS Graduate Kevin Webster Collaborated on Methane Study

2018 Crossroads Conference

Faculty pose for the camera with President McRobbie

EAS Professor Chen Zhu Honored in AAAS Fellows Reception at IUB

Lisa Pratt

Dr. Lisa Pratt appointed NASA planetary protection officer

2017 News Stories

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Update to the SVP Lawsuit

Grand Staircase, home to countless dinosaur fossils, could be destroyed by mining

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Grand Staircase, Home to Countless Dinosaur Fossils, Could Be Destroyed by Mining

Chen Zhu

EAS Faculty Member Chen Zhu Named AAAS Fellow

Showing research findings to a group of students

EAS Students and Faculty Visit the Lilly Library

Tabletop scientific demonstrations at Science Fest

Science Fest!

Geology building entrance

IU Earthquake Drill

Woman in a field examining a rock

That Stone-fixed Moment

Meet and greet event poster

Announcing the EAS Spring Registration Meet and Greet

John Kearney

Paleontology Graduate Student John Kearney Interview With GPSG Community Development

Geology building entrance

October 17-18 Chevron Oil will be recruiting in the Department

Earthquake graph showing activity

Earthquake felt in Bloomington

Geology building entrance

Recruiters are visiting the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences this month

Brian Yanites

EAS Faculty Brian Yanites Awarded NSF Grant in Tectonics, Geomorphology, and Land Use Dynamics

Geology building entrance

IRIS USArray Advanced Short Course, 2017

Room of booths and people sitting at booth tables

Midcontinent EarthScope Workshop for Middle and High-school Earth Science and Physics Teachers

David Polly

EAS Professor David Polly is Associate Director of a successful IU Grand Challenge initiative

Paul Staten

EAS Professor Paul Staten taught at Wonderlab Summer Science Institute

People in a conference room with computers listening to a conference on a projector screen

Spring semester Environmental and Energy Diplomacy seminar ends with a diplomatic conference call

A satellite image shows the Mississippi River Delta coastal region

Research sheds new light on forces that threaten sensitive coastlines

David Bish

EAS Professor David Bish awarded a Fulbright US Scholar Grant (Fellowship)

Man standing inside smiling at camera

Professor Michael Hamburger gave a keynote address at first Diplomacy Lab Symposium

Banner of the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences name on a light post

We are now the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.

Building fallen down due to earthquake

Special Seminar

Banner of the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences name on a light post

We have changed our name!!

Geology building entrance

Crossroads Geology Conference March 31 and April 1

David Polly sits next to research findings

Merging paleobiology with conservation biology to guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems

Geologists stand next to camera and instrumentation equipment outside

IUGFS Short Course, "Using TLS and Structure from Motion (SfM) Photogrammetry in Undergraduate Field Education " in EOS

John Michael Hayes

In Memory: Dr. John Michael Hayes

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Bloomington Herald Times: IU geology department plans new name, new offerings

Geology building entrance

Department To Change Its Name and Update Curriculum

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