2018-06-20
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The NASA ESS fellowship is highly competitive, awarded to ~10% of applicants, and provides funding for up to 3 years to support graduate research. Yan's NASA ESS Fellowship will support the remainder of his PhD work, which is focused on applying the High Performance Computing data assimilation approaches that he has developed to investigate the 2006 eruption of Korovin Volcano in the...
2018-06-20 - The prestigious NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program supports early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education. The 5-year CAREER award will support the research Trish and her students are conducting using sophisticated geodynamic models to investigate catastrophic caldera eruptions and forecast volcanic unrest and the...
2018-06-08 - Jia Wang received the Best Student Poster Award from among 135 student participants in the Computational Methods in Water Resources Conference (http://cmwrconference.org/), held June 3 -7 in Saint Malo, France. Jia reported her latest experimental results and reactive transport model simulations of the combined effects of hydrology and geochemistry...
2018-05-30 - PhD graduate student Julia Cisneros has been awarded a Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW) grant from the Division of Graduate Education at the National Science Foundation. This award will enable Julia to travel to the Netherlands in the summer of 2018 in order to pursue research for her doctoral thesis concerning the morphodynamics of alluvial sand dunes. This GROW award will allow...
2018-05-30 - Professor Tom Johnson has been elected as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America at its Spring 2018 council. GSA Fellowship is an honor bestowed on the best in our profession in recognition of their distinguished contributions to the geosciences through publications, applied research, teaching, and administration of geological programs. Tom was recognized for his fundamental...
2018-05-11 - George Klein was born in The Hague, Netherlands, in 1933. The Klein family moved to Australia in 1939 and then to the United States in 1947, where George subsequently earned three degrees in geology, his bachelor’s at Wesleyan University, a master’s from the University of Kansas, and his doctorate at Yale, in 1960. George’s academic career began with a faculty position at the University of...
2018-05-02 - PhD candidate Haley Cabaniss, Prof. Trish Gregg and collaborator Prof. Eric Grosfils publish a paper in Geophysical Research Letters that lifts the lid on the precursors to supervolcano eruptions. In a new geodynamic modeling investigation entitled ‘The Role of Tectonic Stress in Triggering Large Silicic Caldera Eruptions’ (see online here), Geology PhD candidate Haley Cabaniss finds that large...
2018-04-25 - The class spent three days at the Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado, examining the geomorphology and sedimentology of a range of environments, from hillslopes and debris flows to shallow braided rivers to eolian dunes and playa lakes, and the sedimentary structures present in each. The group were lucky to gain an overview of the park from Park geologist, Dr Andrew Valdez, and then have the...
2018-04-23 - Professor Trish Gregg was one of eight National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Faculty Fellowship awardees for 2017-18. Faculty fellows work with NCSA to help solve some of the grand challenges facing society. Each one works closely with experts at NCSA on a project that aligns with NCSA's six thematic research areas and/or major projects (i.e., the Blue...
2018-04-10 - Prof. Jim Best was awarded the 2018 Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal by the European Geosciences Union at the EGU annual meeting in Vienna, April 9th, 2018. The Lamarck Medal was established by the EGU Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Paleontology Division, in recognition of the scientific achievement of Jean Baptiste Lamarck. It is awarded to scientists for their...
2018-04-03 - Second year geophysics Ph.D. student, John “Jack" Albright, has been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Prior to joining Professor Trish Gregg’s group at the University of Illinois, Jack completed a B.A. in Geology at Pomona College, and a Frontiers Abroad program at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Jack's doctoral research focuses on combining volcano-monitoring data sets...
2018-03-26 - The Department's Spring Oil and Gas Industry Short Course, sponsored by Royal Dutch Shell, was held on March 10th and 11th. Titled,"Controls on and Prediction of Sandstone Porosity and Permeability," the course was taught by Drs. Linda Bonnell and Rob Lander of Geocosm, LLC. The course covered advanced concepts, and recent research, that enable greatly improved prediction of sandstone porosity...
2018-02-21 - The department's Eryops Skeleton replica is being repaired in preparation for its return to NHB. Christa Deacy-Quinn from the Spurlock museum is generously helping this effort, supplying essential expertise in plaster preservation and repair. Click here for blog posts as the project proceeds.
2018-02-20 - A paper just published in Nature Geoscience, and led by Illinois Geology team Jiashun Hu, Lijun Liu, Quan Zhou, Craig Lundstrom, and Stephen Marshak, in collaboration with Manuele Faccenda of the University of Padova and Karen Fischer of Brown University, highlights that geology activity within stable portions of Earth's uppermost layer may have occurred more recently than...
2018-02-16 - Leah Matchett, a Geology alumna from the class of 2016, is one of 49 students selected in the first year of the Knight-Hennessy Scholar program for postgraduate study at Stanford University. Matchett is currently pursuing a master’s in international relations at the University of Oxford as a Marshall Scholar. At Stanford, she will pursue a Ph.D. in political science. See the Illinois News...