Geoscience News
Emeritus Professor Alan Carroll wins 2025 SEPM Francis J. Pettijohn Medal for Excellence in Sedimentology
Nominees for the medal will be persons who have a significant record of outstanding contributions in sedimentary geology, including all aspects of sedimentology and stratigraphy. Recognition is not to be limited to members of the …
Department Alumni, Richard Alley, Awarded the National Medal of Science
Richard Alley received a Ph.D. from the Department of Geoscience at UW–Madison in 1987 and joined the Penn State faculty shortly afterward. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2008 and has …
Graduate student Rudy Molinek receives science communication award from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications is awarded annually to scientists and journalists who work on the frontlines of science communication and have developed creative, original work to communicate issues …
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NEW FACULTY PROFILE
Eva Golos, Assistant Professor
Eva Golos joined the faculty in the Department of Geoscience in Fall 2022. As a seismologist, she uses information from earthquakes, volcanoes, and other Earth processes to make images of the Earth’s interior. In her current work, she utilizes passive seismic data to investigate the structure of the crust and mantle in North America, and bridges geophysics and geochemistry to reveal geologic information buried deep within the Earth. Spanning the ancient hearts of the continents to the ongoing evolution of the American Southwest, her research addresses questions such as: How do tectonic processes such as rifting and subduction modify the temperature and chemistry of the lithosphere? To what extent is the mantle melting below continents, and how is this related to volcanism and lithospheric evolution?
Geo-Badgering: Student Updates
Welcome!
Geo-Badgering is a blog run by graduate students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. It draws on contributions from graduate and undergraduate students in the Geoscience Department, and aims to cover a broad range of topics, from communicating scientific research to a general audience, to sharing field experiences, to answering those deep questions about what an earth science education is really all about! We hope that the experiences shared here will foster a stronger community within the department, and allow for broad impacts to be made by our work and experiences!
Please contribute!
We are looking for short blog posts (200 to 600 words) about scientific research, lab work, field experiences, internships/industry experiences, and student life in general.
Please fill out this form, add a photo or two, and email it all to eemixon@wisc.edu.
Recent Posts
The Last Normal Day
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 …
All About 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 …
Melissa Reusche explores Greenland
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 timing of …
Shan Ye uses emerging technologies to bridge the gap
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 …
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