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 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
Two M.S. students receive scholarships. Rachael Hines has been awarded a $1,000 Odom Scholarship to help support her continuing studies including her research into the petrology of volcanic rocks from Chile, and Sarah Brokus has been awarded a $1,000 Fugiel Scholarship to help support her studies into the hydrogeochemistry and hydrologic system of the Atacama Desert of Chile. Congratulations to both! - November, 2012
M.S. student Kasey Todd was awarded the Carla Montgomery Scholarship in Geochemistry. Congratulations and $1000 to Kasey! - October, 2012
M.S. students Phil Kenroy and Erik Van Dusen recently presented their research at the AAPG-SEG Student Expo in Houston, Texas, and the AAPG Rocky Mountain Rendezvous in Laramie, Wyoming. Erik's poster won third place and Phil's received an honorable mention. - September, 2012
NIU Today article: Antarctic adventure for NIU scientists begins with test run in fabled depths of Lake Tahoe - September, 2012
Testing WISSARD Instrumentation reports and video at Lake Tahoe - August, 2012 Related video features Dr. Ross Powell talking about water column sampling to assess tsunami (seiche) risks after a major earthquake under Lake Tahoe, CA.
Geology students get HAZWOPER training - Summer 2012
Ryan Pollyea to join department in fall, 2012 as a new Assistant Professor of Hydrogeology. March 7, 2012
"Grad student finds more than gold in internship" Northern Today article about grad student Kendle Fraley. March 7, 2012