Earth & Planetary Sciences

A Geological Society of America (GSA) trip down the Colorado River to commemorate the 150th anniversary of J.W. Powell’s first expedition – what have we learned in the past 150 years – is set to launch Saturday, Sept. 14. The eight-day, 280-mile field...

The University of New Mexico’s Institute of Meteoritics (IOM) will celebrate its 75th anniversary during UNM’s Homecoming Week on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 24-25. World-renowned, UNM’s IOM was founded in 1944 as one of the first institutions in the...

An international team of scientists, studying evidence preserved in speleothems in a coastal cave, illustrate that more than three million years ago – a time in which the Earth was two to three degrees Celsius warmer than the pre-industrial era – sea...

Jin Zhang, an assistant professor in The University of New Mexico's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, was recently awarded a $600,000 National Science Foundation CAREER grant to pursue new research on the elastic anisotropy of mantle minerals...

The New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, a research division of New Mexico Tech, recently announced the 2019 Earth Science Achievement Award for “outstanding contributions advancing the role of earth science in areas of applied science and...

New research project aims to study interactions of boron and ribose in groundwater on Mars Does life exist beyond Earth? Human beings have pondered this question since we first gazed up at the stars. Today, planetary scientists turn to our solar system...

Two years ago a team of scientists visited Costa Rica’s subduction zone, where the ocean floor sinks beneath the continent and volcanoes tower above the surface, to find out if microbes can affect the cycle of carbon moving form Earth’s surface into the...

In honor of the Grand Canyon National Park’s 2019 Centennial celebration, Earth Day 2019 and the 150th anniversary of John Wesley Powell’s 1869 pioneering Colorado River expedition, hundreds of scientists will be gathering at the Grand Canyon for the...

The University of New Mexico's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Institute of Meteoritics presents the 3rd annual Stuart A. Northrop Distinguished Lecturer featuring Dr. Meenakshi Wadhwa on April 12 at 3 p.m. in Northrop Hall, Room...

University of New Mexico graduate student Jon Golla conducts his research along the Jemez River in the natural laboratory of the Valles Caldera located in northern New Mexico. His scientific interests stem from an unfamiliarity with potable water during...