Geology
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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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Professor Peter Stifel pledged $250,000 to sustain UMD’s geology senior thesis program in perpetuity
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UMD geologists find evidence for massive shifts in ocean chemistry directly after the first animals began piercing microbial mats.
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New method, co-developed at UMD, refines the 2,600-year history of large eruptions that inject planet-cooling particles into the stratosphere.
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UMD geologist Nicholas Schmerr and collaborators repurposed data from Mars rover’s navigational instruments to learn about the geologic history of Gale Crater and Mount Sharp.
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UMD geologist Richard Ash developed a mass spectrometry standardization method for generating a timeline of thallium poisoning by analyzing the victim’s hair.
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