On July 30, NASA launched the Perseverance rover on a mission to collect samples from the Jezero Crater on Mars. Marisa Palucis, discusses the mission and its importance for future exploration.

New Hampshire Public Radio recently featured a piece on some of the Virtual Field Labs that were used in EARS1 - How the Earth Works in the Spring of 2020.

The EARS faculty issued a consensus statement recommitting to concrete steps in our plan to enhance Inclusivity, Diversity, and Equity in our department and geociences in general.

Mukul Sharma, a professor of earth sciences, has been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In winning the Guggenheim award, he joins 175 American and Canadian scientists, scholars in the social sciences and humanities, and writers and artists selected from almost 3,000 applicants.

The Stretch—Dartmouth's storied Earth Sciences off-campus program—takes undergraduates, faculty members, and graduate student teaching assistants into the field on a geological tour of the American West, from the glaciers of the Canadian Rockies to the floor of the Grand Canyon.

The Neukom Fellows program is an interdisciplinary postdoctoral program at Dartmouth that may provide another means of working with or being mentored by faculty in our department. Please see the position announcement at  https://neukom.dartmouth.edu/funding/faculty/postdoctoral-fellows...

Starting this term, Brenhin Keller joins us as an Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences. Brenhin comes to Dartmouth by way of UC Berkeley and the Berkeley Geochronology Center, where he worked for two years as a postdoctoral fellow after completing his PhD at Princeton in 2016. His research applies a wide range of integrated computational, field, and geochronological approaches to better understand the history of the solid Earth, particularly including the formation of the continental crust and its coevolution with the biosphere and the surface Earth system.

Dartmouth Earth Sciences welcomes a new Neukom Postdoctoral Fellow – Akshay Mehra, PhD. to start September 1, 2019...