Shanan Peters in National Geographic: Earth has lost and gained many oceans
Professor of Geoscience comments on the profound, centuries-long process that transforms Earth's oceans and coastlines.
Andrea Dutton in National Geographic: Antarctica's ice is rapidly approaching a melting tipping point
An accelerating increase in ice melt affects sea level rise, says Professor of Geoscience. "Once you cross this threshold, there's going back."
Rocking the Classroom
It’s not at all unusual for Stephen R. Meyers to teach his Geoscience 100 course while standing on a chair. Or a desk. Or, during remote learning forced by COVID-19, on the roof of his house using a drone. Meyers is always finding new ways to make learning about rocks a lot more fun.
Andrea Dutton on WPR: Confronting doomsday on climate change
Geoscience professor reports on her recent Antarctica research in New Zealand.
The winners: Cool Science Images 2020
L&S departments of geoscience, integrative biology and physics are among the winners in UW–Madison’s 10th Cool Science Image Contest. A panel of artists, scientists and science communicators judged the scientific content and aesthetic.
Warming oceans could cause Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse, sea level rise
A new study suggests the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet is less stable than researchers once thought.
Geoscience’s John Valley honored for distinction in the field
Valley receives the Arthur L. Day Medal from the Geological Society of America
This is her brain on climate change
Recent MacArthur "Genius" Grant winner Andrea Dutton adds her sea-level rise expertise to the Department of Geoscience
On WORT 89.9 FM: UW Origins Project explores how scientists research our beginnings
UW-Madison’s recently released Origins project links together different academic fields to paint a picture of how scientists research Earth’s and mankind’s beginnings. Anthropology professor John Hawks is featured in the project, and spoke with Nina Kravinsky about the study.
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