Earth & Planetary Sciences

University of New Mexico Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs James Holloway and Health Sciences Center Chancellor Dr. Paul Roth recently announced the promotion of seven UNM faculty to the rank of Distinguished Professor. The rank...

Eight faculty members at The University of New Mexico have been selected for the 2020 Women in STEM awards. Their work includes research on the impact of global warming on alpine stream biology, the creation of a better way to identify missing and...

University of New Mexico (UNM) Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Dr. Tobias Fischer and Syracuse University research fellow (now University of Auckland Lecturer), Dr. James Muirhead led an international team of interdisciplinary researchers to...

The history of the Earth and of life on Earth is written in sedimentary rock layers. To understand the history, you must understand the rocks. Sedimentary rock layers of 541- 485 million years old, from the Cambrian Period, provide a record of incredible...

University of New Mexico Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Tobias Fischer was involved in a study published in this week’s journal Nature on the link between the mantle of the Earth and the atmosphere by studying nitrogen and its origins. The...

Scientists at The University of New Mexico have found that the Earth and Moon have distinct oxygen compositions and are not identical in oxygen as previously thought according to a new study released today in Nature Geoscience. The paper, titled...

Research by an international team of scientists led by University of New Mexico Professor Yemane Asmerom suggests contraction of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) during a warming Earth, leading in turn to drying of the Neotropics, including...

Researchers at The University of New Mexico are looking at various impacts of and adaptations to climate change as part of the South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center (CASC). Renia Ehrenfeucht, chair of the Community & Regional Planning...

UNM alumna Nina Lanza, a planetary scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, summarizes her job on her Twitter account, @marsninja, as “I shoot the lasers, pew pew.” Her career isn’t one young girls are traditionally encouraged to follow, but Lanza...

The University of New Mexico's Office of the Vice President for Research and the University Communication and Marketing (UCAM) Department annually compiles a Year-in-Review for its research features during the course of the calendar year. Below is the...