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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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Ancient Climate Control
October 22, 2026
UChicago team including Prof. Dorian Abbot, Assistant Prof. B.B. Cael, and Postdoc R.J. Graham suggest that the way the Earth’s “thermostat” works may have changed during the Pangea era.
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Grad Student Basil Saleem Wins 2026 Wiley Award
October 15, 2026
Since 2012, the Wiley Awards have been given to a few students each year for the top oral presentations at the annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society. The awards are sponsored by Wiley, the publisher of Meteoritics and Planetary Science.
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North Korea’s Nuclear Tests May Have Reactivated Seismic Faults
October 02, 2026
Assistant Prof. Sunny Park recently quoted in CNN article. Click the title above to read more.
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Wind Works: The Atmosphere’s Invisible Energetic Tug-Of-War
September 30, 2026
A new paper from Associate Professor Malte Jansen, Grad Student Hsing-Hung Chou, and Research Scientist Seth Seidel explains the weak and, at times, contrasting trends in global wind energy dissipation under climate change.