Department of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences

This September, the students of EEPS 1370 Environmental Geochemistry went on their annual water and sediment sampling trip around Rhode Island. The group visited the Scituate Reservoir, the Pawtuxet River, Pawtuxet Cove, Brickyard Pond, and Walker's Farm to take water samples that they will use in their coursework throughout the Fall semester.

DEEPS PhD students Brianna Hoegler and Jared Nirenberg, with the support of hundreds of fellow scientists, have written a letter to the National Science Foundation expressing their concerns regarding the future of scientific ocean drilling research. The letter is published in AGU Perspectives, and garnered signatures from nearly three hundred scientists, a majority being early career scientists.