Earth & Planetary Sciences

A new reservoir of hot, partially molten rock located beneath the Yellowstone supervolcano has been imaged for the first time giving scientists a new perspective of the volcanic plumbing system under the supervolcano.

Dr. Karl Karlstrom has spent a lifetime studying rocks. A professor of geology in University of New Mexico’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (E&PS), Karlstrom has carved out an impressive academic career conducting research on rocks at one of...

It's a one-way ticket to Mars and University of New Mexico student Zachary Gallegos has been named as one of 100 people still participating in the Mars One Astronaut Selection Process for the trip to the Red Planet. Mars One named the 50 men and 50 women for Round 3 after the field was whittled down to 660 last year. Initially, more than 200,000 applicants from 140 countries applied.

Clues left behind in a cave in central America have allowed an international, multidisciplinary team of researchers, including several at the University of New Mexico, to produce a new paleoclimate rainfall record that illustrates the contribution of ...

Scientists at the University of New Mexico are conducting research at the edge of the Earth compiling volcanic data as part of the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) Deep Carbon Degassing (DECADE) research activity. The research is part of a 10-year...

The University of New Mexico Honors College has selected two Fellows for Academic Year 2014-15: Gary Weissmann, Earth and Planetary Sciences and Matt Hofer, English. A third Distinguished Fellow, Shawn Berman from the Anderson School of Management, ...

Researchers from the University of New Mexico and Northwestern University report evidence for potentially oceans worth of water deep beneath the United States. Though not in the familiar liquid form – the ingredients for water are bound up in rock ...

Communicating the value and the importance behind science research is essential for a number of reasons as students learned this past semester in the course “Communicating Science: How to enthuse the public about science and engineering and your ...

Her name is Naia, and for thousands and thousands of years, the skeleton of this young woman was buried underwater in an elaborate cave system in the Yucatan Peninsula after she had apparently fallen into what was then a dry deep pit. Now, a team of...

The campus community is invited to attend a pair of lectures, given by Dr. Douglas Burbank, the UNM Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Caswell Silver Distinguished Lecturer. The first, on Thursday May 8 at 3:30 p.m., is titled, "Growth of the T