Geoscience News
Dr. Pablo Moreno-Yaeger, 2026 Edward Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Fellow
PhD student Pablo Moreno-Yaeger was recognized this spring as an inductee of the Edward Bouchet Graduate Honor Society. The Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society commemorates the first African American to earn a doctorate degree …
Exceptional TAs Recognized
Congratulations to Hanna Konavaluk and Evgeny Mazko! Hanna and Evgeny were recognized for their excellence in teaching with these campus-wide awards. Hanna Konavaluk (MS ’25), Dorothy Powelson Award for Early Excellence in Teaching Evgeny Mazko …
Congratulations to Brian Jicha, 2025 Fellow of the Geological Society of America
At the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA), Scientist Brian Jicha was inducted as a GSA Fellow. Brian was nominated by colleagues Mike Garcia, Terry Plank, and Matt Heizler. For the award …
Andrea Dutton Receives the 2025 GSA Public Service Award
Professor Andrea Dutton is the 2025 recipient of the Geological Society of America Public Service Award. Andrea is recognized for her exceptional communication of climate science to decision makers in the public affairs and policy …
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NEW FACULTY PROFILE
Kristina Butler, Assistant Professor
Kristina Butler is joining the faculty in the Department of Geoscience in Fall 2026. Her research investigates critical element cycling (e.g., lithium, boron, rare earth elements) and ore deposit formation. As a sedimentologist and geochemist, she leverages sedimentary archives to evaluate the role of tectonics and hydroclimate on the accumulation and distribution of critical minerals in sediments and brines. Her interests span a variety of scales, from single mineral geochemistry to basin-scale tectonic reconstructions. She has active projects in the Great Basin (NV, CA), Gulf Coast Basin (TX, AR), Alberta Basin (Canada), and high elevation salars across Argentina and Chile.
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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