News Archive

December 22, 2014 — Secondary school teachers in Wyoming and nationwide now have a new resource that applies quantitative reasoning and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to teaching energy and environment.

October 20, 2014 — James Myers, University of Wyoming Department of Geology and Geophysics professor, is serving a one-year term as president of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NGTA).

October 14, 2014 — The Wyoming State Geological Survey (WSGS) at the University of Wyoming has published a new field guide, titled “Self-guided Walking Tour of the Paleoproterozoic Stromatolites in the Medicine Bow Mountains, Wyoming,” which provides a guided tour to many of the best outcrops found in the Medicine Bow Mountains, located west of Laramie.

October 8, 2014 — Mark Clementz, a UW assistant professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics, was among scientists who discovered a large land mammal that lived about 48 million years ago in parts of Asia. The discovery led scientists to identify a new branch of mammals closely related to modern horses, rhinos and tapirs.

October 6, 2014 — Longtime University of Wyoming geology professor and administrator Carol Frost has accepted a two-year appointment with the National Science Foundation to serve as director of its Earth Sciences Division.

October 3, 2014 — Like many students from the University of Wyoming and other universities, Jacob Buettner was looking for a full-time job or internship in the oil and gas business.

September 26, 2014 — Years of work by University of Wyoming researchers have characterized a geological formation in southwest Wyoming as a potentially secure site for storing carbon dioxide underground.

September 15, 2014 — Graduate student Jeremiah Marsicek (PhD candidate) recently received an Environmental Protection Agency STAR (Science to Achieve Results) fellowship.

September 10, 2014 — An extinct swamp-dwelling, plant-munching creature that lived 19 million years ago in Africa has been named after the famous band’s lead singer. Mark Clementz, a University of Wyoming associate professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics, was part of the discovery.

September 9, 2014 — Graduate student Robert Mahon (PhD candidate) recently received the Dick and Lynne Cheney Fellowship for Excellence in Study Abroad to participate in a multi-institutional experiment in sedimentary process at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

August 28, 2014 — When he first started college in the 1970's, Chamberlain thought he wanted to be a doctor, but then, he found out about new doorways of discovery being opened in geology and related sciences. It was about that time the understanding of plate tectonics was beginning to bloom. Researchers were starting to understand the significance of Earth’s crust consisting of large plates drifting on the molten layers below.

August 22, 2014 — About 10 million years into the current Cenozoic Era, or roughly 56 million years ago, during a climate that was hot and wet, two groups of mammals moved from land to water. These were the cetaceans, which include whales, dolphins and porpoises, and the sirenians, with its sea cows, manatees and dugongs.

July 29, 2014 — A University of Wyoming faculty member honored internationally for his petroleum engineering research now is being recognized for his research work with students.

June 30, 2014 — Professor Art Snoke was recently honored at the GSA joint Cordilleran-Rocky Mountain sectional meeting held May 19–21 in Bozeman, Montana, for his career contributions to the geosciences.

June 18, 2014 — Rocky Mountain Geology Volume 49, Number 1, published by the University of Wyoming, is now available online and in print. This special-themed Quaternary issue includes the following articles:

June 12, 2014 — A University of Wyoming faculty member has received a prestigious international award for developing an innovative method to obtain information about oil and gas reservoirs using seismic techniques.

June 12, 2014 — Wyoming’s resurgent uranium industry could get a further boost from University of Wyoming scientists, whose research on post-mining environmental restoration is yielding extremely promising results.

June 5, 2014 — Graduate student Robert Mahon (Ph.D.), was recently awarded a $1,000 Gene George Petroleum Geology Scholarship from the Wyoming Geological Association. The award was one of the first two ever given for this new scholarship. Congratulations Robert!

May 28, 2014 — Graduate Student Mat Dunlop (PhD) was recently awarded a graduate student research grant from the Hugh McKinstry Fund by the Society of Economic Geologists for his research proposal, titled, “Magma recharge and igneous layering processes in the Dufek layered mafic igneous intrusion, Pensacola Mountains, Antarctica.”

May 19, 2014 — On May 15th, Professor Kenneth Sims was chosen as one of the two University of Wyoming (UW) Faculty Senate Speakers for 2014–2015.

May 19, 2014 — On April 21, 2014, the University Disability Support Services (UDSS) presented its Going the Extra Mile Award to University of Wyoming faculty, staff and departments.

May 15, 2014 — At a recent meeting on May 12, the University of Wyoming Board of Trustees formally announced the promotion of Associate Professor Kenneth Sims to full Professor and conferred tenure and promotion to Associate Professor to Assistant Professors Po Chen and Clifford Riebe. Congratulations to all!

May 7, 2014 — The Department held its annual Spring Pot Luck Picnic on Friday, May 2nd. The turnout was splendid, with many students, faculty and staff attending, and there was copious food and drink for all. Special thanks to the staff, undergraduate senior Levi Gose, and the Geology Club for hosting the event.

May 2, 2014 — Four graduate students from the Department of Geology and Geophysics recently received research grants from the Geological Society of America.

May 1, 2014 — There was a super turnout of undergraduate students from the Department of Geology and Geophysics for the 14th Annual University of Wyoming Undergraduate research day on Saturday, April 26.

March 26, 2014 — A University of Wyoming faculty member is among three authors of a rock physics handbook that will be released next month.

February 26, 2014 — For salmon, being bigger isn’t always better. Being a little smaller -- at least intermediate size -- is more advantageous for maximum spawning in riverbeds, a University of Wyoming researcher recently discovered.

February 20, 2014 — Graduate student Erin Phillips Writer (PhD) recently won the best student presentation award at The Frontiers of U-series Research Symposium in Sydney, Australia.

February 10, 2014 — Bedrock influences forests and landscape evolution much more than was previously thought, according to a study by University of Wyoming scientists published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

January 23, 2014 — Professor Carol Frost recently completed a term as Science Editor for Geosphere, an all electronic journal published by the Geological Society of America.