2019-04-10 - In the first year of her PhD in 2016, Julia Cisneros attended the 5th International Conference on Marine and River Dune Dynamics (MARID) in Caernarfon, North Wales, to listen, gain ideas and meet new researchers. Three years later, as a fourth year graduate student, she attended MARID VI, that was...
2019-04-07 - Willy Guenthner has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER grant to investigate the origin and erosion of the Great Unconformity throughout North America. The highly-competitive grant, designated for early-career faculty members, provides Willy with five years of funding to pursue the...
2019-04-07 - Jess Conroy has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER award for her proposal Ocean-atmosphere interactions through the lens of stable water isotopologues. This research will use new measurements of stable isotope ratios of O and H in seawater, precipitation, and water vapour, to advance...
2019-03-28 - This 3-year NASA funding will provide support for Trish, and co-I Zhong Lu (Southern Methodist University), to build a data assimilation framework for six high-risk volcanoes in Alaska. Although remote, these volcanoes pose a hazard to the ~50,000 airline passengers that fly overhead every day...
2019-03-27 - Jeremy Bellucci (B.S. ’06) and colleagues recently determined that a felsite clast in a sample of Lunar regolith (Apollo sample 14321), collected by Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard on February 6, 1971, may be derived from Earth’s Archean crust. Jeremy and team’s fascinating results were...
2019-03-26 - Dr. Fang Huang, who earned his Ph.D. in 2007, working on igneous petrology and isotope geochemistry with Prof. Lundstrom, has been highlighted in the Geochemical Society's monthly newsletter. Fang is a professor at the famed University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and...
2019-03-19 - The Department, along with the Illinois State Geological Survey, is fortunate to have been granted access to software donated by Petroleum Experts to use in research and education of students. The software, known as ...
2019-02-14 - The world’s great rivers have been home to the growth of human civilization, form unique and vital ecosystems, and comprise regions that sustain the livelihoods of billions of humans. Yet today the world’s big rivers face a wide array of anthropogenic stressors that are...
2019-01-16 - Assistant Professor Jenny Druhan has been named a Theme Leader for a new Department of Energy funded Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) that is focused on the structure and function of shales. The EFRC is a collaborative research program led by Stanford University, with...
2019-01-15 - Professor Bruce Fouke was featured last weekend on NPR’s ‘The People’s Pharmacy’ talking about his group’s research on the deposits of kidney stones. This interview follows hot on the heels of publications in Scientific Reports...
2019-01-14 - Prof. Willy Guenthner’s (U-Th)/He lab is featured in a new AGU EOS article highlighting NSF support to geochronology and thermochronology labs that serve the broad geoscience community. As a part of...
2019-01-02 - Prof. Don U. Deere, who taught Engineering Geology at Illinois from 1955 to 1972, passed away on January 14, 2018, in Gainesville, FL at the age of 95. A world-renowned engineering geologist and expert on tunneling, dam building and design, and the construction of large...
2018-12-02 - Trish Gregg has been named as one of six LAS LEAP (Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors) Scholars for this year. The LEAP Award is granted to faculty early in their career based on scholarly productivity and contributions to the educational mission of their departments and the College of LAS...
2018-11-28 - Professor Tom Johnson received his Fellowship from the Geological Society of America at its Annual Meeting in Indianapolis last week. Tom’s citation was ‘for his fundamental contributions to the analysis of chromium, selenium, mercury, and uranium isotopes in groundwater, in the context of...
2018-10-17 - On October 4th, 2018, the department’s Alumni Achievement Award was presented to Dr. Norbert E. Cygan (B.S. ’54; Ph.D. ’62). Norb returned to campus with his wife, Royann, and enjoyed a day of catching up with old friends in the department, meeting new faculty and graduate students, touring the...