Earth & Planetary Sciences

Climate scientists have long documented the strong control of Earth’s orbital variations on the waxing and waning of the great ice ages, when huge “pluvial” lakes filled the valley floors of the Great Basin. For years it was thought that Great Basin ...

The mineral apatite comes from the Greek word ‘apat,’ which means deceitful. Greenish in nature with several variations, apatite is often mistaken as a precious gem. The mineral also apparently tricked scientists into thinking there was more water on ...

Assistant Professor Jason Moore and three students from the University of New Mexico Honors College are heading to Uruguay this summer to search for more clues in the riveting and ongoing account of what vanquished the dinosaurs and 75 percent of all ...

University of New Mexico climatologist David Gutzler was one of two recipients of the 2014 New Mexico Earth Science Achievement Awards announced recently in the rotunda at the New Mexico state capitol building during the legislative session. Gutzler, ...

The debate over the age of the Grand Canyon has carried on for more than 140 years with several different scenarios bandied about over the decades. Some scientists say the canyon is some 70 million years old, while others believe it is much younger – l

MRIGlobal recently announced the conclusion of a five-year program to produce a mannequin robot and high-containment chamber to test protective clothing under a range of conditions for the U.S. Department of Defense. University of New Mexico alumnus Ma

Brandon Schmandt, an assistant professor in the University of New Mexico’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, was awarded the 2013 Keiiti Aki Young Scientist Award presented by the Seismology Section of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) at ...

After following up on many of the social media reports regarding the Chelyabinsk meteoroid impact last February in Russia, scientists, including those at the University of New Mexico, contributed to present a comprehensive overview of what occurred ...

The documentary, Valles Caldera: The Science, focuses on the Valles Caldera National Preserve in the high mountains of northern New Mexico. The Preserve is situated inside a collapsed crater surrounded by eruptive domes and features the 11,254 ft. ...

The momentous Higgs Boson discovery opened the door to new understandings of the universe. What are the basic forces that have shaped it since the beginning of time? Physicist Sally Seidel and her team share what they have learned using the Large Hadron ...