Findings have implications for freshwater availability and sea level rise.
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January 27, 2022
Recent research by Professor Sarah Slotznick challenges the view that scientists proposed in 2007 of a "whiff of oxygen" present before the Great Oxygenation Event more than 2 million years ago.
January 26, 2022
Ancient ice action seems responsible for massive erosion of rock across the planet.
August 03, 2021
Mathieu Morlighem is the inaugural Evans Family Distinguished Professor of Earth Sciences.
March 19, 2021
Our Alumni have taken the challenges of 2020-21 in stride and completed degrees, started new jobs, taught classes, removed dams, and produced fascinating research. Here, we have compiled a few updates from our ROX family across the globe.
February 21, 2021
This fall's new students arrived at Dartmouth with backgrounds in biology, astrophysics, geology, civil engineering, and computer science. They arrived from Vermont, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Montana, and San Francisco in the midst of the pandemic.
February 16, 2021
Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences Justin V. Strauss won a 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship. The fellowship honors researchers whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of scientific leaders.
December 04, 2020
Please see below special accommodations for undergraduate EARS and EARV majors due to the COVID-19 pandemic: Any student whose Stretch...
October 27, 2020
The Department of Earth Sciences at Dartmouth College invites applications for the Joseph P. Obering Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Fellowship provides two years of full-time salary and a research allowance.
September 25, 2020
Dr. Margaret Jackson, our alumni, is starting a new position as an Assistant Professor at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland! Dr. Jackson defended her PhD on February 25th of 2019, with Professor Meredith Kelly as her advisor.