The field of seismology is entering a new era where our understanding of earthquakes and the solid earth is increasingly driven by new Big Data experiments and algorithms.

2022 Brown University Library Innovation Prizes & Carney Institute Brain Science Reproducible Paper Prize

Imprint of the Continental Strike-Slip Fault Geometrical Structure in Geophysical Data

Research Matters, hosted by the Graduate School, is a live event, featuring short talks by graduate students and other scholars from the Brown community on “Why my research matters”. These brief talks showcase exceptional graduate student scholarship and celebrate their discoveries and ideas.

The U.S. National Science Foundation has named its awardees for this year's Alan T. Waterman Award, the nation's highest honor for early-career scientists and engineers.

A new global analysis of the last 19 million years of seafloor spreading rates found they have been slowing down. Geologists want to know why the seafloor is getting sluggish.

DEEPS Visiting Scientist and NASA Citizen Science Officer Marc Kuchner facilitated a seminar on the growing importance of “citizen science” — an uncoordinated collection of independent volunteers around the world — in advancing the discovery of exoplanets and planet formation.

Professor Meredith Hastings Receives Award

New study led by UMass Amherst suggests that increasing aridity, not temperature change, contributed to the Norse abandonment of Greenland settlements in the 15th century.

2021 AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Awards

Between 26-15 My ago, forests covering west-central North America gave way to open, grassy habitats. Now, oxygen isotope records suggest this shift is owed to drier winters and increased aridity.

Congratulations to the 2022 recipients of this award from LPI.

Congratulations Kierra!

The SBFT Fundraising Committee is proud to announce this year's t-shirt fundraiser! Support the DEEPS Spring Break Field Trip by purchasing either a new t-shirt or quarter-zip sweatshirt (or both!).

Webb Telescope Update

Assistant professor Karianne Bergen joins the TWIML Podcast.

Mineralogical Society of America 2021

The National Science Foundation has awarded Brown DEEPS a grant supporting new initiatives that foster belonging and participation among Asian Americans and Pacific Islander (AAPI) students in the geosciences.

DEEPS alumnus Richard Vachula just landed a spot on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Science list.

The AGU Bridge Program has selected 15 new partner departments for 2021 including DEEPS.

President Paxson discusses science with DEEPS alumna Maria Zuber ’86.

Earthquake research from The University of Texas and Brown University found cloverleaf shockwaves hidden in low-frequency seismic data.

Composition of air bubbles can help scientists date Antarctica’s ice caps

A unified model for transient subglacial water pressure and basal sliding

As various forces in Rhode Island work toward a more sustainable future, two environmental organizations in the Ocean State have focused on making labor a key player in the transition. Baylor Fox-Kemper explained that both Renew R.I. and Climate Jobs R.I. share goals of “transitioning away from fossil fuels towards carbon-neutral sources like solar,” as well as reducing carbon emissions from transportation, heating, and food production.

2021 AGU Section Awardees and Named Lecturers

A new study led by Prof. Steve Clemens proves that monsoons will become more destructive

Brown Alumni Association of Hawaii NASA Event: "Out of this World with NASA’s Perseverance Mars Mission"

Burgess is currently the lead investigator for a NASA Apollo Next-Generation Sample Analysis Program project.

Watson’s Director Ed Steinfeld talks about China’s lunar mission with Watson Faculty Fellow and DEEPS Professor Jim Head

DEEPS professor Meredith Hastings works to promote inclusion of women in Earth sciences.

JB Novak '20 came up with a more accurate way to figure out past ocean temperatures.

A collaboration with NASA-RI Space Grant and Brown University

Meredith Hastings and the team from ESWN are awarded a Presidential Award.