Research

Check out this article from the Yellowstone Institute featuring Prof. Bruce Fouke explaining the importance of Yellowstone in fields as different as medicine and space exploration! Dr. Fouke has...

Take a look at ESEC Professor Bruce Fouke and IGB Researcher Miyandi Sivaguru's fascinating work combining Geoscience and Medicine (GeoBioMed)! Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death...

Petroleum Experts has renewed through December 2024 a grant of a collection of industry-leading software packages to the ...

PhD candidate Jinyu Wang recently published her first lead author paper in Science of the Total Environment! Jinyu’s study employs a new ‘lab-in-the-field’ technology which we refer to as the...

Thanks to a generous donation from Michael (MS, ’02, Earth Science & Environmental Change) and Lalana Fortwengler, the Tom L. Phillips Memorial Fund for Paleobotany has supported graduate...

A new paper authored by geology professor Lijun Liu and geology graduate students Yaoyi Wang, Zebin Cao, Lihang Peng, Diandian...

PhD Candidate Jon Golla (working with Prof. Jennifer Druhan) was recently interviewed by the American Geophysical Union Hydrogeology Section!...

What causes the 78% recurrence rate in patients treated with shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) for calcium oxalate (CaOx) kidney stones? Shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) is the most commonly...

By Amber Rose, Grainger College of Engineering University of Illinois researchers Leonardo Chamorro and Jim Best used clear mud in order to study the structure of turbulence in water flows...

New Zealand’s Akaroa Volcano has been the focus of decades of research by geologists seeking to understand its eruptive history, which lasted 9-8 Ma. Some of Akaroa’s most intriguing features include...

In a new paper published in Nature Communications, Gary Parker, Jim Best and Julia Cisneros (former PhD student) are part of a team that reports on how damming on the Huang He (Yellow) River...

Check out Geology Department Professor Alison Anders talking about her work on how critical zone soils form in glaciated landscapes!...

Associate Professor Druhan received the exciting news that NSF will fund a new 1M collaborative research grant entitled “Collaborative Research: Concentration - Ratio - Discharge (C-R-Q)...

In a new paper in Nature Communications, former graduate student Jiashun Hu (now at the Southern University of Science...

Dr. Olivia Thurston (PhD -UIUC, now at U. of Indiana) and her advisor Dr. William Guenthner have been working to explore questions about the timing of the rocks in the Grand Canyon, using their...

Take a minute to check out the September 2021 edition of Scientific American for a look at Prof. Bruce Fouke's work on kidney stones!...

Dr. Gillen Wood was recently awarded a 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship for his project 'Oceans 1876', a look at the...

Prof. Trish Gregg’s research on submarine volcanoes is featured in the PBS Changing Seas episode "Alvin: Pioneer of the Deep”! The episode highlights the amazing discoveries made by the HOV Alvin...

Geology may play a part in solving one of the medical world's most painful problems! In a collaboration between the University of Illinois and the Mayo Clinic, researchers have shown that...

PhD candidate Jon Golla has just published the first chapter of his thesis research in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters with his supervisor, Dr. Jenny Druhan. Human reliance and...

New research by Dr. Jeffrey Kwang (UMass Amherst, formerly a graduate student at the U of I), Dr. Abigail Langston (Kansas State), and Dr. Gary Parker (U of I) has led to new insights into why rivers...

The Geology Department is happy to announce that Senior Rishi Chandra has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! Rishi will graduate this May with a B...

Petroleum Experts has renewed a grant of a set of software packages to the Illinois State Geological Survey and Department...

The Geology Department is pleased to announce that Assistant Prof. Jennifer Druhan has received a NSF CAREER Grant entitled: Unlocking the isotopic signatures of weathering recorded in rivers...

What do the Yellowstone hot springs and kidney stones have in common? Both create rocks through biological processes! New insights into the formation of kidney stones by Geology Professor Bruce Fouke...

Jim Best and Steve Darby (University of Southampton, UK) have published a paper in One Earth that outlines the pace of change in large rivers produced by multiple anthropogenic stressors

Using multiple lines of evidence, a new report of the World Climate Research Program has significantly reduced the uncertainty in the magnitude of Earth's Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity.

  The COVID19 pandemic is an unprecedented situation that has had wide reaching impacts on our campus community. Summer plans have been dashed for many of our Geology undergraduate...

  Professor Conroy was one of only four individuals being promoted to Associate Professor that were selected by the Campus Committee on Promotion and Tenure for this special recognition....

Prof. Gillen Wood discussed his new book 'Land of Wondrous Cold' with the 'Science on Tap' Podcast. Check it out here!

  PhD student Mike DeLucia’s work on the erosion history of the Great Unconformity was featured in an online episode of the PBS series Eons. Check it out...

New technologies allow the Department of Geology to continue field education with virtual field trips.

  Professor Bruce Fouke and researcher Joseph Cross suggest that societal pressures drive a wedge between student's academic activities and athletics in a new paper in the journal 'Frontiers in...

In a paper in Nature Sustainability, Jim Best and colleagues lift the veil on sand mining in the Mekong River, and examine its environmental effects and sustainability

Using a new computer modeling technique normally applied to weather and climate, PhD student Jack Albright and his advisor Prof. Patricia Gregg have developed a method to forecast volcanic eruptions...

Graduate student Mike DeLucia, and advisors Willy Guenthner and Steve Marshak, have constrained the timing and magnitude of erosion that produced the Great Unconformity surface (the global erosion...