UNC Department of Geological Sciences

03/16/2019

Associate Professor Dr. Laura Moore was recently featured on The State of Things discussing environmental effects of Hurricane Florence. Read more & listen here:

Six months ago Hurricane Florence battered the Carolinas and doused the region for days with heavy rains. The historic storm broke 18 flood records across

01/04/2019

Join us for our Spring 2019 Colloquium Series!

12/19/2018

Take a look at this article on research conducted by Dr. Jonathan Lees and Danny Bowman.

At the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, researchers described progress on balloon-borne infrasound detectors that observe seismic events on Earth and could eventually go on Venus.

11/20/2018

Congratulations to undergraduate Abigail Fancher, who has been awarded the GSA 2018 Paleontological Society Poster Prize for Undergraduates (First Place) for her poster entitled "LATITUDINAL PATTERNS IN LIFESPAN AND GROWTH RATE OF PLIOCENE GLYCYMERIS SUBOVATA."

05/02/2018

Associate Professor Dr. Tamlin Pavelsky will lead a team to expand a citizen science program to measure lake water storage, thanks to a NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration grant.

A UNC team led by geologist Tamlin Pavelsky has received $1.5 million from NASA’s Earth Science Division to expand a pilot citizen science program to measure lake water storage from North Carolina to the globe. Pavelsky’s team was one of six chosen from a group of 16 prototype projects at instit...

05/02/2018

Meet Madelyn Percy: geologist, tortilla maker, polka dancer and outgoing UNC Graduate and Professional Student Federation president.

Madelyn Percy’s work has taken her to Chile, France, Belize, Iceland and the Galapagos Archipelago. At UNC Percy is pursuing her goal of becoming a “rock solid geoscience educator.”
http://carolinachronicle.unc.edu/2018/meet-madelyn-geologist-tortilla-maker-polka-dancer/
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04/22/2018

Come support Sean Gaynor on his dissertation defense this Wednesday, May 9th at 1:00pm in Mitchell 05.

04/21/2018

Adjunct professor Dr. Michael Shore's GEOL/ANTH 421 Archaeological Geophysics class was recently featured in an article in News of Orange County!

04/14/2018

Come visit our booth at the UNC Science Expo!

04/12/2018

Join us for Colloquium today! Dr. Tamlin Pavelsky will be the host.

03/26/2018

Join us tomorrow (Tuesday, 3/27) at 5:30 pm in Mitchell Hall room 05 for a presentation on careers in geology. Several professionals will be there to discuss careers and opportunities for students with degrees in geology. Pizza and drinks will be provided courtesy of the local chapter of AEG - Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists. Please email Dr. Kevin Stewart ([email protected]) if you will be attending so that he can get a rough head count for pizza.

03/26/2018

Undergraduates in GEOL 303 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy had a snowy weekend field trip mapping Paleozoic stratigraphy in Kentucky!