News

• WISSARDs of Antarctica. NIU geologist Ross Powell will speak at the May 22 STEM Café on the Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling Project. NIU Today article - May 13, 2013
  Program flyer
  Ross Powell biography in brief
  Background information
• Graduate students Steve Battaglia, Colby Lubanowski, Kat Quesnell, Annie Shillaber, Erik Van Dusen, and Wilson Wiedenheft garnered a combined total of $11,815 of competitive research funding in the recent round of GSA graduate student grants. Congratulations to all! - April 25, 2013
  
• Congratulations and thanks to Ben Alonzo and Brian Guthrie for their poster presentations at the Undergraduate Research and Artistry Day in the HSC earlier this week. - April 25, 2013
  Ben's poster: Investigating drill core to determine baslatic magma characteristics of the central Snake River Plain, Idaho.
  Brians' poster: The relationship of pleistocene-Pliocene diatoms to obliquity-driven milankovitch cycles in the ANDRILL AND-1B core.
  
• Erik Van Dusen and Matt Fleming presented their posters at the Salt Sediment Interaction Research Consortium meeting in El Paso, TX. - April 18-21, 2013
  Erik's poster: Fluid compartmentalization in narrowly tapering orogenic wedges.
  Matt' poster: Regional paleohydrogeologic investigation of the Lisbon Valley salt anticline, Paradox Basin, UT.
• Congratulations to Ben Alonzo on receiving a $500 field camp scholarship from the National Association of Geology Teachers. This is a competitive award (only 18 nationally) and it's great to see one of our majors getting it! - April 17, 2013
• Life on, and beneath, the ice. NIU students and scientists are part of research team that discovers microbial life in lake buried beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. NIU Today article - February 28, 2013
• WISSARD project explores subglacial lake. Ross Powell and Reed Scherer make the KBZK news in Montana. - February 22, 2013
• ‘Scherer’ beauty: Blog by NIU geology professor chronicles life, historic research in the Antarctic. NIU Today article - February 13, 2013
• NIU researchers part of team that collects first intact samples from Antarctic subglacial lake. NIU Today article about NIU's Antarctic research team. - January, 2013
• WISSARD project in the news. NY Times article. - January, 2013