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Professors Thorne Lay and Erik Asphaug talk about doomsday type natural disasters in Wired magazine.

UCSC grad students use Kinect videogame equipment for glaciology and planetary science.

Thorne Lay gives the American Geophysical Union's Gutenberg lecture.

Lunar core is stirred, not shaken, to generate an ancient magnetic field by grad student Christina Dwyer and Francis Nimmo.

Alumnus Ian Howat (Ph.D. 2006) receives prestigious PECASE young investigator award at the White House.

Casey Moore honored by the Geological Society of Japan as the recipient of their International Prize

Jim Zachos, Paul Koch, and graduate alumnus Matt Huber are featured in a National Geographics article on global warming, ocean acidification, and biotic change at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary

Nature paper by Martin Jutzi and Erik Asphaug describes how the collision of two early moons produced the anomalous farside of our current moon [Full Story]

Paul Koch named interim dean of the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences [Full Story]

Jim Gill receives Humboldt Research Award [Full Story]

Grad student Sam Johnstone receives Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award [Full Story]

Science paper by Francis Nimmo and coauthors reveals evidence for a subsurface magma "ocean" on Jupiter's moon Io [Full Story]

Article by undergraduate Ashley Gilliam says that planets around dim red dwarf stars could have liquid methane oceans, which are potential habitats for alien life [Full Story]

Jim Zachos elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences [Full Story]

Grad student Jake Walter reports that the Honshu earthquake affected the flow of Antarctic ice streams [Full Story]

Emily Brodsky featured in NSF's "Voices From the Future" Lecture Series [Full Story]

President Obama nominates alumna Kathryn Sullivan for position at Department of Commerce [Full Story]

Rob Coe earns Outstanding Faculty Award from the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences [Full Story]

Study in Science by Ian Garrick-Bethell and Francis Nimmo explains the bulge of high topography on the farside of the Moon [Full Story]

Researcher Adina Paytan teaches young scientists to engage with the publich in her course, Communicating Science [Full Story]

In a Nature cover article, Thorne Lay and colleagues demonstrate that the 2009 Samoa-Tonga tsunami disaster was caused by a "triggered doublet" of two great earthquakes [Full Story]

Slawek Tulaczyk elected a fellow of the Geological Society of America [Full Story]

Gary Griggs elected a fellow of the California Academy of Sciences [Full Story]

Congratulations to Gary Glatzmaier on his election as a member of the National Academy of Sciences [Full Story]

EPS graduate and undergraduate students receive highly competitive fellowships from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and Consortium for Ocean Leadership [Full Story]

UCSC Earth and Planetary Sciences graduate program ranked 13th in the nation in 2010 by the US News and World Report [Full Story]

Gary Glatzmaier elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences [Full Story]

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