Department of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences
News Archive
Scientists have thought that the asteroid Psyche could be a big ball of pure iron, but new research suggests it’s likely harboring a hidden rocky component.
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Webb Telescope Update
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Assistant professor Karianne Bergen joins the TWIML Podcast.
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News from Brown
Researchers propose new explanation for Moon’s magnetic mystery
A new study reveals how the diminutive Moon could have been an occasional magnetic powerhouse early in its history, a question that has confounded researchers since NASA’s Apollo program began returning lunar samples in 1969.
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Amanda Lynch, a Brown University professor and inaugural director of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, will chair the board responsible for guiding the World Meteorological Organization’s research agenda.
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Mineralogical Society of America
Former student Chenguang Sun, PhD '14, recently awarded the MSA Award
Mineralogical Society of America 2021
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Through DEEPS STEP, Brown postdocs, undergraduate and graduate students develop and teach a science curriculum, complete with engaging, hands-on activities, to elementary students in the Providence Public School District.
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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.
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DEEPS alumnus Richard Vachula just landed a spot on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Science list.
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The AGU Bridge Program has selected 15 new partner departments for 2021 including DEEPS.
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Browninterviews.org
President Christina Paxson P ’19 in Conversation With Maria Zuber ’86
President Paxson discusses science with DEEPS alumna Maria Zuber ’86.
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Jackson School of Geosciences
Seismic Shockwave Pattern May Be Redirecting Earthquake Damage
Earthquake research from The University of Texas and Brown University found cloverleaf shockwaves hidden in low-frequency seismic data.
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Heat from a comet exploding just above the ground fused the sandy soil into patches of glass stretching 75 kilometers, a study led by Brown University researchers found.
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Composition of air bubbles can help scientists date Antarctica’s ice caps
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Jim Head, a planetary geologist at Brown, is working with colleagues from China to analyze rocks returned from the Chang’e 5 mission, which recently brought to Earth the first lunar samples retrieved in 45 years.
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Brown scientists are analyzing a tiny chunk of the asteroid Ryugu in an effort to better understand the early history of the solar system.
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Brown Daily Herald
Climate orgs. mobilize labor for greener R.I.
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.
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New York Times
Stronger Monsoon Rainfall in the Future
A new study led by Prof. Steve Clemens proves that monsoons will become more destructive
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Brown Alumni Association of Hawaii NASA Event: "Out of this World with NASA’s Perseverance Mars Mission"
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Burgess is currently the lead investigator for a NASA Apollo Next-Generation Sample Analysis Program project.
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Trending Globally Podcast
DEEPS Professor Jim Head: China’s Mission to the Moon, and the New Politics of Space Exploration
Watson’s Director Ed Steinfeld talks about China’s lunar mission with Watson Faculty Fellow and DEEPS Professor Jim Head
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DEEPS professor Meredith Hastings works to promote inclusion of women in Earth sciences.
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A Brown research scientist and two undergraduate students are working with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to spot fresh impact craters on Mars using artificial intelligence.
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Brown Alumni Magazine
Modeling Climate Change
JB Novak '20 came up with a more accurate way to figure out past ocean temperatures.
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Ariel Deutsch, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, will join an astronaut who walked on the Moon and two top NASA scientists for a panel titled “Lunar Geology: Past, Present and Future.”
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Providence Journal
Moon Landing Anniversary
A collaboration with NASA-RI Space Grant and Brown University
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Meredith Hastings and the team from ESWN are awarded a Presidential Award.
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The Fund for the Education of the Children of Providence marks its five-year anniversary this spring — but it’s just one illustration of the many ways in which Brown and the city’s schools work together to enrich educational opportunities.
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News from Brown
Earth’s orbital variations and sea ice synch glacial periods
Climate simulations show how changes in Earth’s orbit alter the distribution of sea ice on the planet, helping to set the pace for the glacial cycle.
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News from Brown
Scientists reconstruct formation of the Appalachians
A new study finds that the process that built the Appalachian Mountains 300 million years ago is similar to the process building the Himalayas today.
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John Mustard, Ralph Milliken, and co-authors examined global patterns of landscape shapes and near-surface water ice the orbiters mapped. They concluded a covering of water ice mixed with dust mantled the surface of Mars to latitudes as low as 30 degrees, and is degrading and retreating.
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