Recent Departmental News

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EPS Graduate Student Wins Prestigious Award

Posted: Feb 10, 2024 - 12:00am

Alexandra Apgar, an Earth and Planetary Sciences Ph.D. student at the University of New Mexico, has been recognized as the recipient of the 2024 Charles H. Sternberg Award. The Charles H. Sternberg Award was created by the Association of Applied Pal...read more

New research erupts: UNM Professor presents instrument in tracking Iceland volcanoes

Posted: Jan 31, 2024 - 12:00am

By Dani Rae Wascher  January 31, 2024 Categories: Front Page Faculty News College of Arts & Sciences Earth & Planetary Sciences Research Tobias Fischer, a professor at The University of New Mexico's Department of E...read more

Olumide Adedeji, EPS Graduate Student

Posted: Oct 13, 2023 - 04:00pm

Olumide Adedeji, a Ph.D. candidate in the Earth and Planetary Science Department at the University of New Mexico (UNM), achieved a remarkable milestone by securing the first-place prize at the National Elevator Pitch Competition, organized by the H...read more

Professor Peter Fawcett

UNM Professor Peter Fawcett elected as Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Posted: Sep 07, 2023 - 04:00pm

Professor and Chair of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Peter J. Fawcett has been elected as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America (GSA). This honor is bestowed by the Society Fellowship to recognize the best in their professi...read more

Professor Yemane Asmerom

UNM Distinguished Professor Yemane Asmerom elected as an AGU Fellow

Posted: Sep 19, 2022 - 12:00am

University of New Mexico Distinguished Professor Yemane Asmerom was elected as an American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) Fellow. He joined 53 other individuals from around the world in the 2022 Class of Fellows.   Since 1962, the AGU Union Fe...read more

UNM continental-scale helium study probes the deep structure of the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayan plate collision

Posted: Apr 01, 2022 - 12:00pm

The Himalayan Mountains and the Tibetan Plateau, the largest and highest geologic structures in the world, started forming some 50 million years ago through the crashing and colliding of the Asian and Indian continental plates. The Tibetan Plateau i...read more

EPS scientists study composition and temperature variations in the mantle transition zone in search of water

Posted: Mar 28, 2022 - 12:00pm

Scientists at the University of New Mexico are modeling water in deep Earth using the mineral wadsleyite to determine composition and temperature variations to decipher the material exchange processes between the upper and lower mantle.The research ...read more

Longtime UNM professor honored on latest map of Mars

Posted: Jan 19, 2022 - 12:00pm

It is a rare honor for the University of New Mexico and for the man who led UNM’s Geology Department for more than three decades. His name is on a map of the heavens, forever. From now on, when someone looks at a map of the planet Mars, they w...read more