DEEPS Alumna Dr. Karen E. Kohfeld '90 received an Honorary Ph.D. from the Faculty
of Natural Sciences at Stockholm University. She is currently serving as Director and Professor in the School of Environmental Science and Professor in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University.

A recent article by DEEPS Professor Amanda H. Lynch and Maine Law Professor Charles Norchi which appeared in the journal International Law Studies has been awarded the 2022 Myres S. McDougal Prize for International Law. The article is titled "Arctic Navigation and Climate Change: Projections from Science for the Law of the Sea", and is available to read online.

DEEPS Professor Steven Clemens joined Dr. Farah Naureen, Country Director for Pakistan, and Joshua Johnson, host of NBC NOW Tonight, to discuss how low-income countries bear the brunt of climate change.

Assistant Professor Dan Ibarra was featured on the popular educational YouTube channel, "Every Rock Has a Story". 

A new paper co-authored by Associate Professor Ralph Milliken and Senior Research Scientist Takahiro Hiroi examines the Formation and evolution of carbonaceous asteroid Ryugu using samples returned by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft (JAXA mission). DEEPS alumn Seiji Sugita also contributed to the research.

The National Science Foundation ADVANCE Program has funded a $1.2 million collaborative grant to expand on the successful work of the ADVANCEGeo Partnership. Professor Meredith Hastings is one of the principal investigators on the project, which aims to address a range of exclusionary and discriminatory behaviors to better address observed demographic trends in STEM.

An interview with the four Brown University undergraduate researchers who worked on Breath Providence this summer, a research study led by IBES and DEEPS Professor Meredith Hastings.

Each year AGU sections recognize outstanding work within their fields by granting awards and hosting numerous lectures. Professor Kim Cobb, who joined us in July, was named this year's Cesare Emiliani Lecturer for her exceptional work in tropical paleoceanography and paleoclimatology. Harriet Lau, who will be joining us on Jan. 1, won the Jason Morgan Early Career Award from the tectonophysics section for her outstanding contributions in research, education, and outreach.

On Saturday afternoon, August 27th, NASA Apollo Astronaut Dave Scott visited DEEPS Planetary students and staff in Lincoln Filed Building to preview his new movie on the Apollo 15 Mission, the first scientific expedition to the Moon.

Sometimes learning about the past to figure out the future requires crawling beneath tons of rock. Prof. Kim Cobb, Prof. Dan Ibarra, Postdoc Natasha Sekhon, and Grad Cathy Gagnon, and their collaborative fieldwork with partners at Vanderbilt are highlighted in this long-form article in High Country News, exploring Titan Cave (Wyoming). 

Even during the summer break, many DEEPS undergraduate students are engaged in groundbreaking research. We are proud to showcase some of these research projects with this photo series.

As for any consensus among scientists that signs of past or present life have been seen by Perseverance, once again, don't wait for a slam dunk observation. Professor Jack Mustard discusses the Perseverance Rover and the search for life on Mars.

"We're going to see almost a foot – somewhere between nine and 11 inches – of sea level rise by 2050 – a generation and a half, we see that amount," Fox-Kemper explained while standing at the waters’ edge. "And the 2050 numbers are already baked in. So even if we were to cut all of our emissions today, we still are going to see sea level rise."

The SSERVI Awards recognize outstanding achievements in exploration science and recipients have each made unique contributions to NASA’s human exploration efforts. SSERVI Award winners are nominated by their academic peers and are selected by a committee based at SSERVI’s central office. The awards will be presented along with invited lectures from the recipients at the 2022 NASA Exploration Science Forum (NESF).

COSPAR is happy to announce the winners of its 2022 Awards, to be presented during the 44th COSPAR Scientific
Assembly in Athens, Greece. COSPAR bestows a number of medals and awards each year – some jointly with other
institutions or space agencies – upon endorsed candidates of merit.

Why was the long-term global cooling trend of the Cenozoic interrupted by a several-million-year interval of warming during the middle of the Miocene? Herbert et al. present a reconstruction of global ocean crustal production to show that tectonic degassing of carbon can account for most of the long-term ice sheet and global temperature evolution for the past 20 million years (see the Perspective by von der Heydt). These results provide further support for the idea that sea floor spreading rates can control global changes in climate.

Muskrats have been considered so prevalent and unremarkable that even people in tune with environmental goings-on have been unaware of the species’ 50-year decline. Biologists noted the nationwide trend early through trappers’ harvest data, but earnest study is a recent phenomenon.

Brown University students, with a low-cost satellite, are blasting off on a budget.

Sharp fronts and eddies that are ubiquitous in the world ocean, as well as features such as shelf seas and under-ice-shelf cavities, are not captured in climate projections. Such small-scale processes can play a key role in how the large-scale ocean and cryosphere evolve under climate change, posing a challenge to climate models.