Illinois State University Geology

09/01/2026

Always happy to see what our alumni are up to! Stay tuned for our very own spotlight series coming soon!

Meet Melinda Hilber Collins ’07, an alum of the College of Arts and Sciences.

08/31/2026

Our first Geology Club meeting for the semester will be tomorrow, Tuesday 9/1, in FSA 433 at 5 pm! We’ll be doing a short info meeting and then will have board games to play afterwards. Bring your favorite games, we hope to see you there!

08/27/2026

Tomorrow, Friday, August 28th, we will be having our first round of Summer Internship Presentations for Colloquium! Jana Kadel (Illinois State Geological Survey), Avery Melrose (SCS Engineers), and Tealyn Wendler (PPG) will be presenting on how they got their internships and what they spent their summers doing! Presentations will start 3:30 pm in Moulton Hall 208, we hope to see you there!!

08/20/2026

Our first colloquium speaker of the semester, Sean McGuire (BS 2020), will be tomorrow in Moulton 208 at 3 pm! The title of his presentation is Making a Better Tomorrow: Subsurface Investigations, Remediations and Risk-Based Environmental Site Assessments. We hope to see you there to kick off our colloquium series for the semester!

08/01/2026

Senior Geology major Genna Warnick just completed a 5-day mapping project in the Westfjords of Iceland. Funded by an ISU FIREbird Grant, and joined by Paul Meister and Dr. Tenley Banik, Genna’s first foray into mapping focused on describing and delineating a rhyolite and several basalts in a previously unmapped area. High points included amazing views, daily improvement in notetaking, and “Bear Grylls”ing through Icelandic forests and streams in search of outcrop; low points included stepping on a beehive (only 1 sting!) and sore feet. Genna will present her map, along with zircon data from the rhyolite unit, at the GSA Connects conference this fall.

07/13/2026

Happy National Rock Day!!! Show us your favorite rock in comments!

07/06/2026

We are of the CAS contributions to a green infrastructure project that will benefit the City of Bloomington, especially residents of the Dimmitt’s Grove neighborhood! 💚

With cooperation from several groups including Illinois State University Geography and Illinois State University Department of Sociology and Anthropology, a groundbreaking 🪏 for the project was held last week. The end product will be a new rain garden to mitigate flooding and improve water quality!

From left are Drs. Melissa Heil, Joan Brehm, Eric Peterson, and Guang Jin.

05/11/2026

To end the semester, we are celebrating the achievement of undergraduate Caleb Ortman! Caleb recently received the Bone Scholarship from ISU! The Bone scholarship is the highest achievement a student can receive in the time as an undergraduate, with only 14 students selected each year. Congratulations, Caleb! The future is bright! ✨️

05/11/2026

Aaron Jacob is our final graduate from the program this year. He now has undergraduate degrees in both Anthropology and Geology from ISU. Congrats Aaron 👏 👨‍🎓🎊

05/11/2026

Grant Huey is our next graduate! Grant transferred into the program last fall. Congratulations on your achievement, Grant!👏👨‍🎓🎊