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Forminifera
October 21, 2019
A new study led by Yale University confirms a long-held theory about the last great mass extinction event in history and how it affected Earth’s oceans. The findings may...
August 22, 2019
Sadly Brian Skinner, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geology & Geophysics, passed away on August 21st.  He was 90 years old.  Brian was a pioneer in mineralogy...
August 19, 2019
Only 0.1% of AGU members (of which there are about 60,000) are elected to Fellow in any given year.  John joins 5 other AGU fellows in our Department.  He’ll receive...
August 15, 2019
Earth’s early oceans appear not to have been as hot as some have suggested. The oxygen isotope composition of marine carbonates has changed markedly over the past 3.5...
August 6, 2019
https://eos.org/agu-news/2019-agu-section-awardees-and-named-lecturers  
Main Gulp
July 25, 2019
Researchers have found the earliest known evidence of a mammal predecessor with sophisticated bones at the back of the neck that allowed for swallowing food in the same way...
Dragonfly mission concept image of entry, descent, landing, surface operations, and flight on Titan. (Credit: Johns Hopkins APL)
July 22, 2019
By 2034, when the Dragonfly drone mission makes landfall on the surface of Titan, Yale’s Juan Lora will have spent nearly half his life studying the climatic tendencies of...