Department News

Jackson State University Contingent to Study Hydrology at UW This Summer
May 16 , 2013 — Students from the University of Wyoming and Jackson State University will pair up this summer to focus on research projects centered on hydrology, ecology and geophysics in the Laramie and Snowy ranges.

Graduate Student Justin LaForge Receives AAPG Weimer Family Grant
May 13 , 2013 — Graduate student Justin LaForge (MS candidate) recently received the AAPG Foundation Weimer Family Grant for his research project titled, “Macro- and Microstructural Investigation of a Low-Angle Normal Fault System in Crystalline Rocks.”

Graduate Student Lynsey Spaeth Wins EGU Outstanding Student Poster Award
April 26 , 2013 — Graduate student Lynsey Spaeth (MS candidate) recently won an Outstanding Student Poster award from the Energy, Resources, and Environment Division (ERE) for her poster presentation titled, "Seal assessment and estimated storage capacities of a targeted CO2 reservoir based on new displacement pressures in SW Wyoming, U.S.A."

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Recently Published Research

• The stable vanadium isotope composition of the mantle and mafic lavas – Sims
• Earth is (mostly) flat: Apportionment of the flux of continental sediment over millennial time scales – McElroy
• A continuous climatic impact on Holocene human population in the Rocky Mountains – Shuman
• The cooling history and the depth of detachment faulting at the Atlantis Massif oceanic core complex – Schoolmeesters, Cheadle, and John
• On the Time Scales of Magma Genesis, Melt Evolution, Crystal Growth Rates and Magma Degassing in the Erebus Volcano Magmatic System Using the ²³⁸U, ²³⁵U and ²³²Th Decay Series – Sims

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