Image UA Geosciences alum Dr. Dani DellaGiustina will become the principal investigator of OSIRIS-APEX, an extension of NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling mission. April 26, 2022 Read more
Image Congratulations to Alexander Gorr for landing at 1st place in this years Grad Slam Themed Competition! April 25, 2022 Read more
Image Congratulations to Dr. Jessica Tierney for receiving the prestigious Alan T. Waterman award! April 22, 2022 Read more
Image Geoscientist Prof. A. Cohen and his team combined records of climate change during the last 3.5 million years with fossil evidence of mammals in Africa revealing that times of erratic climate change are not followed by major upheaval in evolution. April 12, 2022 Read more
Image "Arizona must do more to counter a dry future": Geosciences Prof Emeritus Karl Flessa warns that current and proposed adaptive strategies are insufficient to meet the State’s needs in a drier future. April 11, 2022 Read more
Image Making Science at high altitude: Faculty & Students from UofA Geosciences, in collaboration with Argentine colleagues, join forces to study Cerro Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the western Hemisphere unraveling the secrets of its formation. April 8, 2022 Read more
Image Lazaraskeite, a brand new mineral, the first organic mineral that contains glycolate, discovered in our own backyard by University of Arizona Geoscientist Dr. Hexiong Yang and his team. The discovery appears in the latest issue of "American Minerologist". April 5, 2022 Read more
Image Congratulations to the Department of Geosciences on the high marks in today’s US News Best Graduate Schools rankings – #2 in Geology, #6 in Geochemistry, #9 in Earth Sciences, #12 in Geophysics March 29, 2022 Read more
Image Alpine Permafrost could Melt Faster than Arctic Permafrost under Current CO2 Levels: Research co-authored by University of Arizona Geoscientist Dean Carmala Garzione and Lin Li, appears in the March 14th Volume of Journal, Nature Communications. March 29, 2022 Read more