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Research Spotlight
Assistant Professor Clara Blättler holding a vial of seawater dating from the last ice age.
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Bowen studies the climate of early Mars and rocky exoplanets.
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Edwin Kite is a planetary scientist interested in Mars and rocky exoplanets.
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds Evidence For Long-Ago CO2 Atmosphere On Mars
April 22, 2025
Prof. Edwin Kite was third author on a paper that revealed there was, in fact, a Martian atmosphere which contained enough carbon dioxide to be warm enough to support liquid water.
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Jui-Chun Freya Chen Wins Grand Prize in “Science As Art” Competition
April 03, 2025
Chen, a graduate student in the department, won for her photograph titled "Anemometer in the High Arctic". See the image and read more about its creation at the link above.
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Prof. Tiffany Shaw quoted in “Regional climate signals pose new challenges for climate science”
March 28, 2025
“The standard approach has been extremely successful in explaining general features of the climate system and certain aspects of its response to increased carbon dioxide concentrations,” said Tiffany Shaw. For example, it does an excellent job of describing and explaining the vertical structure of the atmosphere and some aspects of the spatial pattern of warming of the Earth due to an increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
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Hsing-Hung Chou 2024 Outstanding Student Presentation Award from the American Geophysical Union
March 24, 2025
Hsing-Hung Chou was recently awarded the 2024 Outstanding Student Presentation Award from the American Geophysical Union for his presentation "Confronting Climate Model Trends of the Low-Level Extreme Winds with Reanalysis Data". Congratulations Hsing-Hung.