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.

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.

Please see below special accommodations for undergraduate EARS and EARV majors due to the COVID-19 pandemic: Any student whose Stretch...

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.

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.

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.