News Archive

December 9, 2015 — Rocky Mountain Geology Volume 50, Number 2, published by the University of Wyoming, is now available online.

November 16, 2015 — For the past four summers, Cliff Riebe, a UW associate professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics, and Claire Lukens, a UW doctoral student majoring in geology, have studied sediment in Inyo Creek, in California’s High Serra.

October 29, 2015 — University of Wyoming geoscientists have discovered that the underground water-holding capacity of mountain watersheds may be controlled by stresses in the earth’s crust.

October 27, 2015 — Senior Lecturer Erin Campbell-Stone and Associate Professor Mark Clementz both recently received awards at the inaugural University of Wyoming Celebrating Diversity Awards program.

October 5, 2015 — The history of wildfires over the past 2,000 years in a northern Colorado mountain range indicates that large fires will continue to increase as a result of a warming climate, according to a new study led by a University of Wyoming doctoral student.

August 26, 2015 — Graduate student Erin Phillips (Ph.D.) and Graduate student Abraham Role (Ph.D.) Receive Travel Grant and Fellowship.

August 13, 2015 — Graduate student Quin Miller (Ph.D.) recently received two fellowships that will support his research project titled, “Pore network evolution in unconventional reservoirs: Experimental study of fluid-rock interactions.”

August 6, 2015 — Oil and gas producers in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin are expected to gain insights that will improve the precision and effectiveness of their operations as a result of a cooperative research project with the University of Wyoming.

July 13, 2015 — Who wants to play in a sandbox while standing in the shadows of some of the world’s best-preserved dinosaur collections? Nearly everyone who enters the University of Wyoming Geological Museum, that’s who.

May 13, 2015 — An opportunity to research how geology affects the growth of the world’s biggest trees attracted Lindsay Arvin to graduate studies in the University of Wyoming’s Department of Geology and Geophysics.

May 4, 2015 — Graduate students Ryan Herz-Thyhsen (Ph.D.), Quin Miller (Ph.D.), and Alexa Socianu (M.S.) all gave invited talks during the 2014–2015 academic year.

April 21, 2015 — I’m motivated to study paleontology, more specifically my specialty of taphonomy (paleo-forensics), because fossils not only tell us about the animals that lived in the past, but they can also help us interpret information about the past environment.

April 16, 2015 — Professor Kenneth Sims recently received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant in the amount of $267,619 to help fund his research project titled, “Toward a Better Understanding of Magmatic Processes and Volcanic Hazards at Nyiragongo Volcano, DR Congo.”

April 14, 2015 — Undergraduate seniors Leslie Logan and Evan Martin each recently received positions in the National Associate of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT)/U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Cooperative Summer Field Training Program.

April 10, 2015 — The University of Wyoming Geological Museum is ranked 12th on a list of the “50 Most Amazing College Museums” released by CollegeRank.net.

April 1, 2015 — An international research team, including University of Wyoming Professor of Geophysics Steve Holbrook and current and former UW graduate students, has revealed information about how continents were generated on Earth more than 2.5 billion years ago — and how those processes have continued within the last 70 million years to profoundly affect the planet’s life and climate.

February 26, 2015 — Over the years, Michael Cheadle has been a team member on a number of research ships that have explored the floor of the world’s vast oceans.

February 6, 2015 — Graduate student Jason Alexander recently received a National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) award for his research project titled, “Quantifying the relationship between channel morphology and the topography of large emergent sandbars.”

February 3, 2015 — Graduate student Robert Mahon (PhD) was recently awarded a Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences, Inc. (CUAHSI) Pathfinder Fellowship for his proposal, titled, “Reconstructing fluvial flow and sediment transport conditions from the 3-D kinematics of bed form evolution and their stratigraphic deposits.”

January 14, 2015 — Changing conditions on the Earth’s surface can have a major influence on the composition of its overwhelmingly more massive interior.

January 12, 2015 — Graduate student Tyler Brown (PhD) recently received an Outstanding Student Paper Award for a paper that he presented at the annual Fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in San Francisco, titled, “Towards solving the conundrum of fast-spread ocean crust formation: insights from textural analysis of gabbroic rocks from Pito Deep and Hess Deep, East Pacific Rise.”