Earth & Planetary Sciences

Visualize the following: The Earth’s climate swings between cold glacial and warm interglacial periods; the last glacial interval was about 20,000 years ago; sea level was about 126 meters (413 feet) below modern sea level at that time; and the Holocene,...

Scientists believe the solar system was formed some 4.6 billion years ago when a cloud of gas and dust collapsed under gravity possibly triggered by a cataclysmic explosion from a nearby massive star or supernova. As this cloud collapsed, it formed a...

Holly Olivarez is an outstanding student at The University of New Mexico who is filled with a strong desire to study the global impacts of human behavior concerning global climate modeling. Recently named a SOARS (Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric...

The annual Summer Community College Opportunity for Research Experience (SCCORE) engages students from New Mexico community colleges intending to transfer to UNM in STEM fields and to give them a unique undergraduate research opportunity to learn and...

Provost Chaouki Abdallah and Health Sciences Center Chancellor Paul Roth announced the promotion of six UNM faculty to the rank of Distinguished Professor. The rank of Distinguished Professor is the highest faculty title that UNM bestows. It is awarded...

The Grand Canyon is one of the supreme geologic laboratories on Earth and, after about 140 years of geologic investigation, one might think that its secrets have been mostly resolved. This is especially true of the flat-lying layered rocks that are so...

For decades, scientists have conducted research centered around the five major mass extinctions that have shaped the world we live in. The extinctions date back more than 450 million years with the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction to the deadliest...

Victor Polyak, senior research scientist in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science (E&PS) at The University of New Mexico, was recently awarded the Karst Water Institute outstanding scientist award. The award is given annually to an outstanding...

The department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at The University of New Mexico presents the 2nd annual Stuart A. Northrop Distinguished Lecturer: Susannah Porter, who will give a lecture titled “Tiny Vampires and Living Fossils: The Record of Early Life...

Phrases like “global warming” “climate change” and “rising sea levels” are buzz words that increasingly cause people to tune out, which is why the University of New Mexico Wind Symphony is tuning up to re-ignite awareness of climate change.   NASA says...