06/08/2018 - Jia Wang received the Best Student Poster Award from among 135 student participants in the Computational Methods in Water Resources Conference (http://...
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05/30/2018 - 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...
05/30/2018 - 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...
05/11/2018 - 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...
05/02/2018 - 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...
04/25/2018 - 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...
04/23/2018 - 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...
04/10/2018 - 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...
04/03/2018 - 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...
03/26/2018 - 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...
02/21/2018 - 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...
02/20/2018 - 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...
02/16/2018 - 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....
02/06/2018 - 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...
01/25/2018 - The department's 3-D model of parts of the Colorado Plateau, including the Grand Canyon and southern Utah, found its new home in the Natural History Building, after about 4 years in storage. In this...
