Department of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences
Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Brown University
The Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences (DEEPS) integrates teaching and research to investigate fundamental phenomena affecting the Earth and planets. Our students engage in hands-on learning, in collaboration with DEEPS faculty, to explore natural hazards, global climate, and planetary bodies.
Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Brown University
The Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences (DEEPS) integrates teaching and research to investigate fundamental phenomena affecting the Earth and planets. Our students engage in hands-on learning, in collaboration with DEEPS faculty, to explore natural hazards, global climate, and planetary bodies.
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Silk, film, plexiglass: How one Brown student printed the Moon with sunlight
Logan Tullai ’25 oversaw the creation of large-scale cyanotype prints using two rolls of NASA Lunar Orbiter film, decommissioned from the repository of NASA data and images once housed within DEEPS. “I thought it would be cool to use the sun’s UV to make pictures of the moon,” Tullai said.
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Impact: Research at Brown
A Spirit of Summer Inquiry
Brown offers transformational opportunities for students to conduct summer research with faculty colleagues and present results at the Summer Research Symposium. Impact: Research at Brown shared highlights from the event, including a quote from WaTae Mickey Jr. ’26, whose ultimate goal is to plan missions to space.
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Many researchers describe public outreach as a labour of love, often carried out in their spare time. But some funders reward these activities. In an interview with Nature, Voss Postdoctoral Research Associate Lina Pérez-Angel described her insight and experience with science communication, noting “Science communication is as real and as hard as doing research.”
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Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Box 1846
324 Brook Street
Providence, RI 02912
DEEPS@Brown.edu
(401) 863-3339