Geology
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CMNS awardees include eight current undergraduates, three recent alumni, and six current graduate students (one of whom is also a recent graduate).
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As seismographic data from Mars reveals a quaking planet, analysis of meteorites and satellite data offers a new compositional model that identifies layers inside the red planet.
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Scientific team including UMD geologists analyzed marsquakes from the InSight mission to find a planet with geological activity similar to both Earth and the Moon.
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Sean Carroll, Ming Lin and Richard Walker received the university's highest academic honor.
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UMD geologist contributes to analysis that suggests current climate models can accurately predict climate warming several decades into the future.
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UMD team is one of eight selected to participate in NASA’s SSERVI program.
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They will be recognized during the university’s annual Convocation ceremony in the fall.
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New research highlights the connection between worldwide glaciations, sediments and plate tectonics.
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The awards will enable four students to study or conduct research in Scotland, at Columbia University and at the University of Maryland.
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The moon is still tectonically active, according to data from NASA’s Apollo and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter missions.
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Farquhar is a scientific leader in sulfur isotope geochemistry, with publications that address geochemical processes on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system.
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Ten stories—one from each of our departments—highlight some of the most exciting scientific discoveries made by faculty members in the college during the last half-century.
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