May 31, 2017
Louis Block Professor Nicolas Dauphas has been named as a finalist in the Blavantik national award for young scientists competition. 30 scientists in all fields under age 42 have been selected to compete for three fellowships. Congratulations Nicolas!
May 23, 2017
Professor Doug MacAyeal starred on a recent WTTW segment discussing climate change and sea level rise. Click on the link to watch the video.
May 19, 2017
Former DoGS postdoc Jeremy Bassis, now an associate professor at Michigan, and PhD alumnus Mac Cathles, now an assistant professor at Michigan, have published a paper in Nature arguing that Heinrich events were triggered by ocean warming. Heinrich events are large discharges of icebergs from the ice sheet on North America during the last glacial period. The mystery is that they are associated with cold atmospheric periods. Bassis and Cathles have shown that they probably were associated with warm oceans near the ice sheet margins, and that the warm water temperature led to the calving of large numbers of icebergs. Both Bassis and Cathles were advised by Doug MacAyeal while they were in Chicago.