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Celebrate!
International Year
of Planet Earth

Please join us in celebrating the International Year of Planet Earth, 2007-2009.
UCD Geology's IYPE Calendar

"Dream Big" - Visit the UC Davis Centennial exhibition at the California State Fair and journey into the Earth. A KeckCAVES 3D movie will be featured at the campus' exhibit; August 15-September 1.
"Bank Erosion as a Desirable Attribute of Rivers" - "Bank habitat and function are to some degree inseparable from functions within the larger riparian zone…and are vital centers of biodiversity," states this paper by authors Joan Florsheim and Jeffrey Mount, Geology, UC Davis; and Anne Chin, geography, Texas A&M.
Roy Shlemon, UC Davis MPS Senior Fellow in Geology, will be the 2008 recipient of the President's Medal of the Geological Society of America. The medal will be awarded at the annual meeting of the GSA this October in Houston.
"Comparing Futures for the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta" - The Public Policy Institute of California's report on a new management strategy for the Delta. Jeffrey Mount is a co-author.
Sarah Roeske has been elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. GSA members are elected to Fellowship in recognition of distinguished contributions to the geosciences.
UCD Geology grad student Rebekah Shepard will be piloting a mini-submersible into the depths of Pavilion Lake, British Columbia, as part of an expedition to map strange life forms that could give clues to the history of life on Earth and other planets. The Spaceword Bound Pavilion Lake Field Expedition
Geology graduate students Chris Bowles and Burak Yikilmaz are awarded 2008 Summer Graduate Student Researcher Awards from the UC Davis Graduate Division. These awards support graduate research in engineering, computer sciences, and disciplines with engineering-related applications and methods.
UCD Geology grad student Lara (O'Dwyer) Brown receives an Outstanding Student Paper Award for her presentation, "Numerical simulations of falling sphere viscometry experiments", from the Mineral and Rock Physics focus group at the 2007 Fall AGU Meeting
"The volcano that changed the world" - Ken Verosub and his coauthor, student Jake Lippman, explore the effects the 1600 Huaynaputina eruption had on the global agricultural economy. Their work appears in the April 11th issue of American Geophysical Union newsletter EOS. From the UCD Egghead research blog: "Volcanos and Global Cooling"
"Chatting with the Faculty" - A California Aggie article featuring Dave Osleger.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus John Dewey is elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy. No geologist has been elected an Honorary Member for 40 years
"Flood, Culture, Loss, and Geology: The Impact of Hurricane Katrina" - This Forum@MC panel discussion examines the disaster of Hurricane Katrina through folklore, geology, and the cultural life of New Orleans and features legendary musician Allen Toussaint and UC Davis faculty Jeffrey Mount and Patricia A. Turner. Thursday, March 6 at 4 pm in the Mondavi Studio Theatre.
"View the world through . . . Disaster Vision" - a talk by Gerald Bawden. The audience will wear 3D glasses and view laser scan imagery of natural disasters including Earthquakes and Landslides. Part of the Sacramento State STEM Public Lecture Series, the presentation will take place on Tuesday, March 4th at 7:30 pm in the University Union Ballroom 1, CSUS campus.
Magali Billen has been awarded a prestigious NSF grant from the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program, which is committed to encouraging faculty to practice, and academic institutions to value, integration of research and education.
John Rundle is elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Each year only 1 in 1000 members of AGU is elected to Fellowship.
"California Delta at Risk" and "Crucial California Delta Faces a Salty Future" - NPR articles and broadcasts featuring Jeff Mount
"Scientists study earth’s past, future in amazing Antarctica" and "UC Davis geologists study Antarctic ice cores" - Gary Acton, a UCD Geology associate research scientist, and Luigi Jovane, a postdoctoral researcher, have been taking part in the Southern McMurdo Sound (SMS) project which aims to understand the climatic history of Antarctica.
"Climate Change and California's Water" from KQED's the California Report. A 7-part documentary series, exploring the implications of global warming on our levees, our plants and animals and our lives. Jeff Mount is featured in part 4: Rising Seas.
"Earliest Stage of Planet Formation Dated" - UC Davis postdoctoral researcher Frederic Moynier, Qing-zhu Yin, assistant professor of geology, and UCD Geology graduate student Benjamin Jacobsen have dated the earliest step in the formation of the solar system -- when microscopic interstellar dust coalesced into mountain-sized chunks of rock -- to 4,568 million years ago, within a range of about 2,080,000 years.
"Loma Prieta Fault Not So Weak?" - A new study adds to evidence that the fault responsible for the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake is not as unusually weak as had been thought. Robert Twiss, professor emeritus of geology, and Jeffrey Unruh are co-authors.
"Mars' Molten Past" - Mars was covered in an ocean of molten rock for about 100 million years after the planet formed. News article on recent research by Qing-zhu Yin.
Online NewsHour's Insider Forum: A Planet in Drought: Our Dwindling Water Supplies. Jeff Mount is a guest on this online forum.
November 13th, 2007 - Groundbreaking ceremony for the new Earth and Physical Sciences building - UCD Geology's new home.
"Energy From Hot Rocks" - news article on an international effort to learn more about the potential of geothermal energy. Peter Schiffman and Robert Zierenberg are part of the Iceland Deep Drilling Project.
COLLAPSE (suddenly falling down) - new work by Della Davidson, in collaboration with geologists Louise Kellogg and Dawn Sumner, computer scientists Michael Neff and Oliver Kreylos, and physicist Jim Crutchfield, with text by Ed Gaible. Performed by Sideshow Physical Theatre in a joint production with Mondavi Center, this unique collaboration between artists and scientists uses computer-generated images in an interactive environment to illustrate how systems fail and patterns reorganize. October 25-28 and November 1-4, 2007 in Mondavi Center Studio Theatre.
Read about the latest work being done by UC Davis Geology faculty and researchers in the Fall edition of College Currents, the UC Davis College of Letters & Science Magazine.
press release: Gov. Schwarzenegger and Senator Feinstein Meet with Experts to Work on Delta Fix, Improve California’s Water Infrastructure. View video (featuring Jeff Mount) of the Delta Summit.