News

May 2, 2013
Daniel received a Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellowship which will provide him the opportunity to spend a semester as a graduate student in residence at the Smithshonian...
April 30, 2013
Rachel has received an NSF funded East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI) research scholarship. She’ll be travelling to Japan in June, and explicitly working on...
April 23, 2013
Bill Boos has received an NSF CAREER award for his proposal: “The Influence of Desert Heat Lows on Monsoon Precipitation”.  As NSF says on its website, the CAREER program is...
April 5, 2013
Temperature patterns during Earth’s last prolonged global “hot spell”–the Pliocene, some 5.3 to 2.6 million years ago–differed dramatically from those of...
April 4, 2013
In March 2013 Daniel Field, G&G PhD Student, visited Ecuador, one of the most biodiverse nations in the world. With ornithology PhD students Jake Musser and Sam Snow,...
March 29, 2013
Geological processes can affect evidence of the original colors of fossil feathers, according to new research by Yale University scientists, who said some previous...
March 27, 2013
Karl K. Turekian, a pioneering Yale geochemist who examined an uncommonly broad range of topics in planetary science — including the sediments of the deep seas, the hot...