Welcome
Research at the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences examines everything from the earth's core, mantle, and crust to the outposts of the solar system.
Division faculty are leaders in earthquake studies; have determined the first reliable values of the age of the earth, the moon, and meteorites; worked out the geological history of western North America; deciphered the record of the earth's climate from studies of tree rings and glaciers; perfected isotopic tracers and high-pressure laboratory techniques that indicate how magmas form on the earth and the moon; showed that surface waters penetrate deep into the crust and extensively interact with magma bodies; and, using theoretical studies and data from spacecraft missions, have been largely responsible for our present understanding of the origin of planetary surfaces and atmospheres, satellites, rings, comets, asteroids, and the interplanetary plasma.
The Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences was established in 1926.
Ken Farley and John Eiler have been named Geochemistry Fellows by the Geochemical Society (GS) and The European Association of Geochemistry (EAG).
John A. Johnson has been awarded the Richard P. Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
Heather A. Knutson is the 2012 recipient of the Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy.
John A. Johnson received the 2012 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize at the 221st meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS)
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