March 13, 2020 was the last ‘normal’ day for many of us in the Weeks Hall community. In a (slightly belated) commemoration of the strangest year any of us have experienced, we reached out to …
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Grad Student Highlight – Emily Mixon
I spent my first two years at UW-Madison in the WiscAr Lab using 40Ar/39Ar geochronology to characterize the Quaternary growth and evolution of the Andean Central Southern Volcanic Zone (CSVZ). As of Fall 2020 I …
Grad student highlight – Melissa Reusche
I investigate paleoclimate, with the goal of informing predictions of ice sheet fluctuations and sea level rise. My past work for both my undergraduate1 and Masters2 research used cosmogenic radionuclide exposure dating to constrain the …
Grad Student Highlight – Shan Ye
My work is to utilize computer technologies and data analytical methods to study Earth history and to bridge the gap between traditional geoscience research and fast-growing information technologies. I have been working on several different …
Celebrating Women’s History Month!
Author: Emily Mixon (PhD expected 2023) on behalf of GGSA, GeoPath, and AWG. Although socially distant due to COVID-19, Geobadgers still celebrated 2020 Women’s History Month by sharing some digital highlights of the fantastic female …
The Glacier Shakes at Sunset: New Ice-Quake Data Illuminating Glacier-Bed Mechanics
Author: Nate (Nathan) T. Stevens (PhD expected 2022) Over the summer, UW-Madison Geo-Badgers Collin Roland, Dougal Hansen, Prof. Luke Zoet, and myself, along with our PSICE collaborator Emily Schwans, set out to “take the pulse” …
Intern Spotlight: ExxonMobil
Author: Shlomo Honig (MS expected 2020) This past summer proved incredibly busy and rewarding for me on many fronts. I spent the first part of my summer collecting data for my Masters research with my …
Conference Spotlight: Quantitative Microanalysis 2019
Author: Ben Bruck (MS expected 2020, PhD expected 2023) This spring, as a final project in John Fournelle’s Electron Microprobe Analysis course, our class performed experiments to compare the accuracy of energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) …
Spring Break Field Course: Floating the Llano River to explore microbial bioherms in a shallow Cambrian sea
Author: Shanan Peters (Professor) Geobadgers disperse far-and-wide during Spring Break each year, and 2019 was no exception. This year, 18 undergrads, 2 grad students, and Prof. Shanan Peters made their way to the Llano Uplift …
Association for Women Geoscientists comes to UW Madison!
Author: Natalie Schmer (B.S. Geoscience and Environmental Science 2019) Greetings GeoBadgers! This is your newly-founded UW-Madison chapter of AWG (Association for Women Geoscientists) and we are really excited to be here! Our goal is to …