2022

Awards & Honors
As a Fulbright grantee, Rachel Jankowski '22 will conduct environmental science research in Poland.
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Faculty
Earth Sciences Prof. Erik Klemetti leads students in research on a catastrophic event linked to Native American cultures 1,600 years ago.
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2021

Students
Each year, Journalism partners across a range of disciplines to tell stories from an inside perspective for the Denison Podcast-a-thon.
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Fairs & Festivals
The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences put together a booth at the Science Festival
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Internships
Denison students report on uncovered history of an influential Black writer in Newark
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In the News
NASA will land the most sophisticated rover ever on Mars this week; prof. Erik Klemetti lays out an agenda to map the history of the red planet.
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In the News
Lava lakes, Lava flows, Lava domes, Prof. and vulcanologist Erik Klemetti waxes poetic on the mysteries of lava.
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2020

In the News
"Volcanoes can be somewhat unpredictable, even with the best monitoring," says Prof. Erik Klemetti in an article about New Zealand's White Island.
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Internships
Geosciences and environmental studies double major Robert Reynolds '21 completed a summer scholar research project.
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Student News
Kelly Rose '96, geology, geo-data science researcher with NETL’s Research Innovation Center uses machine learning to prevent oil spills.
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Faculty
Geo Prof. Erik Klemetti discusses the possibility of new magma intruding under the Yellowstone caldera.
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Featured News
An NSF grant funds research to map the longest Mississippi River Flood on record while supporting inclusive undergraduate geoscience research.
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Faculty
Prof. Klemetti says the Tala volcano, formed in the middle of a lake in the Philippines, is one of the 10 most dangerous volcanos in the world.
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2019

Faculty
"Treat volcanoes with the respect that they deserve because they are relatively unpredictable," says vulcanologist & prof. Erik Klemetti.
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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.
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Featured News
Denison University has been awarded a grant of $275,000 to fund a new model that welcomes and supports underserved students in the sciences.
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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.
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Field Trips
Four faculty and 21 students traveled to Hawaii
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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.
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Field Trips
Denison geoscience faculty and students trekked across the Grand Canyon on their 2017 spring break field trip.
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2015

Field Trips
Highlights and photos of the Department of Geosciences student/faculty Field Trip, September 16-20, 2015
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2014

Awards & Honors
Scholarships and awards were presented at our annual Department of Geosciences Awards Banquets.
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Field Trips
Geoscience Fall Field trip will take place on September 17-21.
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Field Trips
Geoscience Dept. members explore Mammoth Cave
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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.
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Field Trips
Most every geologist would like to see an erupting volcano, and put their rock hammer in flowing lava.
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Field Trips
The Fall 2013 Geosciences Department field trip is to the Adirondack Mountains of New York.
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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.
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2011

Field Trips
Proterozoic and Paleozoic Strata of Missouri
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Field Trips
Day-by-day plan of the Geosciences department Spring 2011 Fieldtrip
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