News & Events

• 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
• 'Out of the box' thinking leads to career success. NIU Today article about recent graduate, Amy Gahala. - December, 2012
• Cool student research? This is downright cold. NIU Today article about NIU's Antarctic research team. - December, 2012
• Two B.S. students have each received a $1000 departmental scholarship: Emily Devers was awarded the 2012-2013 Carla W. Montgomery Undergraduate Scholarship and John Hanke was awarded the 2012-2013 John R. Young Memorial Scholarship. Congratulations to both! - November, 2012
• NIU students and professors to join research team this winter in Antarctica. WBEZ Radio 91.5 Chicago - November, 2012
• NIU professors from suburbs studying what’s beneath Antarctic ice shelf. Daily Herald article - November, 2012
• 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
• Reed Scherer named Board of Trustees Professor - February 21, 2012
• WISSARD Project's Sub-Ice Rover highlighted in the Trends and Innovations section of Earth magazine - June 5, 2011
• Undergraduate student Pat Zenger earns NAGT-USGS Summer Internship - May 1, 2011
• Clint Bailey wins Outstanding Senior Award - April 15, 2011
• Robotic submarine built for Antarctica expedition - February 21, 2011
• The WISSARD robotic submarine makes a big slpash at AGU - January 5, 2011