Department of Geology and Geophysics

Department News

We are a very active teaching, research, and service department. Click links below to read more about what we have been doing lately.

Recent News Articles and Press Releases

• Vacancy:Crustal Dynamics

• Emiterus Professor Scott Smithson receives Outstanding Educator Award from the Society for Exploration Geophysicists

• Emiterus Professor Randi Martinsen was recently referenced in the AAPG publication, “The Heritage of the Petroleum Geologist”

• UW Researchers Discover Dust Plays Prominent Role in Nutrients of Mountain Forest Ecosystems

• UW Repository for Mammal Fossils found in Natural Trap

• The Bearded Lady Project- Ellen Currano

• Congratulations to Mark, Ellen, Janet & Susan

• Jim Steidtmann 1938-2017

• UW Scientists discover new hydrothermal vents in the Pacific Ocean 

• Randi Martinsen- pioneering woman in industry

• Kevin Chamberlain contributes to study that shows planet's oxygen rose through glaciers

• Barbara John and Mike Cheadle sailed in January 2017 to lead a research mission to Pito Deep

• Vacancy: Economic Geology Position

• WyCEHG to uncover Yellowstone's Subsurface Mysteries

• Our thanks and best wishes to Erin

• UW Scientists Gain Supervolcano Insights from Wyoming Granite

• UW Team Awarded First Rachel Carson Center Interdisciplinary Fellowship

• Graduate Student Kacy Patrick Receives Grant and Award

• Graduate Student Ryan Haupt's Research Featured in Paleontology Challenge Grants Program

• Graduate Students Jason Alexander and Mat Dunlop Receive GSA Research Grants

• UW Researcher Part of Team That Defined Links Within Two Supercontinents

• Professor Carol Frost Selected as 2016 Geochemical Fellow

• UW Study: Ancient Rocks of Tetons Formed by Continental Collisions

• UW Researcher Part of Indian Ocean Expedition to Drill to the Earth’s Mantle