2024
In the News
McAllister says media need to "articulately convey the interconnected nature of climate change." The study analyzed nearly 100,000 articles.
Date: February 27, 2024
2023
Featured News
Tenure has been awarded to five members of the faculty, who will be promoted to associate professor in fall 2023.
Date: June 23, 2023
Faculty
Earth sciences professor Dave Goodwin applies his research modeling expertise to the COVID puzzle.
Date: March 19, 2023
2022
Lectures & Discussions
What does climate change mean for people and the places we live?
Date: March 3, 2022
Faculty
Earth Sciences Prof. Erik Klemetti leads students in research on a catastrophic event linked to Native American cultures 1,600 years ago.
Date: February 28, 2022
In the News
Professor Erik Klemetti says the sulfur emitted by the Tonga eruption is below the threshold to have a "significant impact on climate in general."
Date: January 19, 2022
2021
Field Trips
Earth and Environmental Sciences Faculty and students charted a boat to take them 3 miles off the shore from Bar Harbor to Ironbound Island.
Date: November 23, 2021
Lectures & Discussions
The August IPCC report on climate science laid out a range of global climate challenges, hear how five Denison faculty respond on Thursday November 4.
Date: November 2, 2021
Featured News
The National Science Foundation has awarded Denison $650,000 to enable talented low-income students to pursue majors and careers in STEM fields.
Date: July 28, 2021
Fairs & Festivals
The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences put together a booth at the Science Festival
Date: May 3, 2021
Featured News
Denison has been awarded a $400K NSF grant to obtain a state-of-the-art scanning electron microscope that deepens student and faculty research.
Date: March 29, 2021
Featured News
Denison University announces a new program, Earth and Environmental Sciences (EESC), a STEM-based approach to exploring Earth.
Date: March 18, 2021
Internships
Denison students report on uncovered history of an influential Black writer in Newark
Date: March 2, 2021
2020
Internships
Geosciences and environmental studies double major Robert Reynolds '21 completed a summer scholar research project.
Date: September 14, 2020
Student News
Kelly Rose '96, geology, geo-data science researcher with NETL’s Research Innovation Center uses machine learning to prevent oil spills.
Date: August 19, 2020
Faculty
Geo Prof. Erik Klemetti discusses the possibility of new magma intruding under the Yellowstone caldera.
Date: May 20, 2020
2019
Field Trips
Three faculty and 9 students traveled to Mammoth Cave and the surrounding area, then to Jamestown, KY for the Department’s annual Fall Field Trip.
Date: October 2, 2019
2018
Field Trips
Eleven Geoscience students and three faculty traveled to the Central Appalachians in West Virginia and Virginia: Allegheny Plateau to the Blue Ridge.
Date: October 4, 2018
Field Trips
Four faculty and 21 students traveled to Hawaii
Date: March 23, 2018
2017
Field Trips
Sept. 2017- 5 Geosciences Faculty and 21 students charted a boat to take them 3 miles off the shore from Bar Harbor to Ironbound Island.
Date: October 4, 2017
Field Trips
Denison geoscience faculty and students trekked across the Grand Canyon on their 2017 spring break field trip.
Date: March 29, 2017
2015
Field Trips
Highlights and photos of the Department of Geosciences student/faculty Field Trip, September 16-20, 2015
Date: September 4, 2015
2014
Awards & Honors
Scholarships and awards were presented at our annual Department of Geosciences Awards Banquets.
Date: September 2, 2014
Field Trips
Geoscience Fall Field trip will take place on September 17-21.
Date: August 28, 2014
Field Trips
Geoscience Dept. members explore Mammoth Cave
Date: May 15, 2014
2013
Field Trips
Each year the Department of Geosciences takes field trips to allow students to apply knowledge learned in the classroom to a real world experience.
Date: September 13, 2013
Field Trips
Most every geologist would like to see an erupting volcano, and put their rock hammer in flowing lava.
Date: September 3, 2013
Field Trips
The Fall 2013 Geosciences Department field trip is to the Adirondack Mountains of New York.
Date: August 28, 2013
2012
Field Trips
In the spring, Eric Klemetti and Kate Tierney led a group of students on a field trip to southern Nevada and along the eastern front of the Sierra Nevada.
Date: September 4, 2012
2011
Field Trips
Proterozoic and Paleozoic Strata of Missouri
Date: September 30, 2011
