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Yale Undergraduate Student, Johanna Press, wins an outstanding student presentation award at the American Geophysical Union's annual meeting.

January 13, 2015
The title of Johanna’s presentation was “Modeling trace element concentrations in the San Francisco Bay Estuary from remote measurement of suspended solids”.  The AGU...

AAAS Member Spotlight - Ellen Thomas

January 7, 2015
5 Things About Me: Micropaleontologist/Paleoceanographer Ellen Thomas   Ellen Thomas, Ph.D. Senior Research Scientist Department of Geology & Geophysics Yale University...

Richard Foster Flint Lectures on Paleo and Modern Climate: Eli Tziperman, Harvard University

December 3, 2014
“Freezing! Snowball Earth Events: Biologically Induced Initiation and Ocean Circulation”  December 3, 2014, 4:00 p.m, KGL 123 “Hot! Eocene Climate and Arctic Cloud Feedback;...

Yale Graduate Student Recognized for Work on Evolution of Flight

December 1, 2014
At the Evolution 2014 conference, Yale graduate student Daniel Field was awarded the W.D. Hamilton Award for his research elucidating the origins of bird flight. Field’s work...

Lack of oxygen delayed the appearance of animals on Earth

October 31, 2014
Geologists are letting the air out of a nagging mystery about the development of animal life on Earth. Scientists have long speculated as to why animal species didn’t...

Robin Canavan was selected as one of three student representatives to The Presidential Carbon Charge Task Force

October 10, 2014
The Task Force is chaired by Sterling Professor of Economics, William Nordhaus.  Robin was appointed through the the Graduate Student Assembly while the other two student...

Predator Demoted Extinct, giant arthropods, long assumed to be top predators of ancient seas, didn’t have sharp enough eyesight to be refined hunters.

October 2, 2014
Eurypterids, or sea scorpions, immediately caught paleontologist Richard Laub’s attention when he became a curator at the Buffalo Museum of Science in 1973. Browsing the...