EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCES NEWS 
Alumna Judith Totman Parrish elected president of the Geological Socity of America[Full Story]
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Rob Coe and Jim Zachos receive Humboldt Research Awards [Full Story]
Emily Brodsky awarded the James B. Macelwane medal from AGU [Full Story]
Computer simulations by EPS researchers support the idea that a giant impact could explain the bipolar topographic differences on Mars [Full Story]
Patrick Chuang and Slawek Tulaczyk promoted
The department is pleased to announce the promotion of Patrick Chuang to Associate Professor with tenure and of Slawek Tulaczyk to Full Professor.
Graduate student Nicholas Van Der Elst receives ARCS Foundation Scholarship [Full Story]
New findings by EPS researchers suggest that uplift of the Tibetan Plateau occurred in stages [Full Story]
Graduate alumnus Ian Howat receives AGU Young Investigator Award in cryospheric science [Full Story]
Jim Zachos elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union [Full Story]
Jim Zachos participates in AAAS Symposium on ocean acidification [Full Story]
Lisa Sloan and Andy Fisher discuss the impacts of future climate change on California water resources at a public forum [Full Story]
Casey Moore participates in project to deep-drill into the Nankai Trough seismogenic zone [Full Story]
Study by researcher Simon Day finds that oral traditions effectively warn people about tsunamis [Full Story]
Graduate alumna Brooke Crowley wins a campus photography prize [Full Story]
Rob Coe receives the AGU Gilbert Award [Full Story]
Andy Fisher advises regional planners on water resources [Full Story]
Quentin Williams appointed chair of the UCSC Academic Senate [Full Story]
Francis Nimmo awarded Macelwane Medal from AGU
Associate Professor Francis Nimmo has been awarded the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union. The medal is the AGU's highest honor for young scientists. [Full Story]
Matthew Clapham new Assistant Professor of geobiology
This year's search in geobiology led to the appointment of Matthew Clapham (M.S., Queen's Univ., 2002; Ph.D., Univ. of Southern California, 2006). Matthew is a paleoecologist and geobiologist who has studied the structure of the earliest metazoan communities and the paleoecology of the Permo-Triassic transition. Matthew is currently a post-doctoral researcher at Queen's Univ., Ontario. He will join the department in January 2008.
Quentin Williams named chair of the Executive Committee of COMPRES
Quentin Williams has been elected to a three-year term as Chair of the Executive Committee of COMPRES, the Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences. COMPRES is a community-based consortium that supports research in the materials properties of Earth and planetary interiors with particular emphasis on high-pressure science and technology and related fields. It is charged with the oversight and guidance of important high-pressure laboratories at several national facilities, such as synchrotrons and neutron sources.
Emily Brodsky and Francis Nimmo promoted
The department is pleased to announce the promotions of Francis Nimmo and Emily Brodsky to Associate Professor with tenure.
Graduate Student Peter Lippert receives ARCS Foundation Scholarship [Full Story]
Francis Nimmo awarded Urey Prize in Planetary Science
Assistant Professor Francis Nimmo has been awarded the 2007 Harold C. Urey Prize in Planetary Science for his contributions to the understanding of terrestrial planets and icy satellites and their evolution. This is the second such award bestowed upon UCSC Earth & Planetary Sciences faculty in recent years, as Professor Erik Asphaug was awarded the Urey Prize in 1998. [Full Story]
Climate change and green technology the focus of UCSC Foundation forum
Climate change expert Lisa Sloan and green technology proponent Steve Westly will be the keynote speakers during the sixth annual Foundation Forum at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on Friday, June 8, at 4 p.m. in the Music Center Recital Hall. [Full Story]
Scientists reconstruct prehistoric behavior and ecology of northern fur seals
A team of researchers has documented major changes in the behavior, ecology, and geographic range of the northern fur seal over the past 1,500 years using a combination of techniques from archaeology, biochemistry, and ecology. [Full Story]
Frictional heating explains plumes on Saturn's moon Enceladus
Tidal forces acting on fault lines in the Enceladus' icy shell cause the sides of the faults to rub back and forth against each other, producing enough heat to transform some of the ice into plumes of water vapor and ice crystals... [Full Story]
UC Santa Cruz research team sheds light on diet of early human ancestors
New isotopic evidence suggests that the diet of our early human ancestors contained a high proportion of bulbs and other underground parts of plants, or the tissue of animals that ate such plants. [Full Story]
Seismologists discover complex structure in Tonga mantle wedge
Although geologists have a pretty good picture of the processes that produce volcanic arcs, a new study finds that the structure of the mantle wedge may be far more complex than anyone had imagined. [Full Story]
New technology shows old faults are smoother than young ones
Old earthquake faults appear to be smoother than young ones, worn smooth over time by friction like the brake pads of an old car. That's one of the most striking insights of a new study by geologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz. [Full Story]
Gary Griggs gives Ricketts Memorial Lecture at Sanctuary Currents symposium
Gary Griggs, professor of Earth and planetary sciences and director of the Institute of Marine Sciences, was chosen to give the Ricketts Memorial Lecture at Sanctuary Currents 2007, the annual symposium of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. [Full Story]
Christine Hatch receives AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award in hydrology
Christine Hatch has been selected to receive an Outstanding Student Paper Award from the Hydrology Section of the Fall 2006 AGU meeting for her presentation... [More]
Jim Zachos delivers the Emiliani Lecture at 2006 AGU
Jim Zachos gave the Cesare Emiliani Lecture at the Fall 2006 AGU meeting. This annual lecture is organized by the Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Focus Group and honors the memory of Cesare Emiliani, one of the pioneers of the study of ancient oceans. [Full Story]
Gary Griggs receives Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award
Founding faculty member Gary Griggs’s popular oceanography class ”has been introducing students to science and conservation issues in an engaging, thoughtful, and clear manner for almost four decades,”... [Full Story]
Alumnus Noah Diffenbaugh receives AGU award in atmospheric sciences
Alumnus Noah S. Diffenbaugh received the 2006 James R. Holton Award from the Atmospheric Sciences Section of the American Geophysical Union. [Full Story]
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