August 26, 2019
Prof. Edwin Kite's recent publication on Martian groundwater circulation and its climatic implications was featured in UChicago News! Congratulations, Prof. Kite!
August 16, 2019
Work by Research Assistant Prof. Reika Yokochi made the latest cover of PNAS! Her recent publication probed the dual moisture sources and antiquity of deep desert aquifers in Israel using radiokrypton dating. She and her team determined that the past humid periods in the recharge areas were probably colder than present, and the long subsurface water residence time suggests that the Dead Sea Transform impedes water flow to create natural subsurface water reservoir that lasts hundreds of thousands years. In addition, the Prof. Yokochi was recently quoted in a UChicago News article discussing the publication. Congratulations!
August 05, 2019
A new article by the Physical Sciences Division outlines the successes and areas for growth after the large Physical Sciences core class Global Warming was taught using the flipped method for the first time this spring. The article quotes Associate Professor Dorian Abbot, who led the effort, and graduate student Andy Heard, who was one of the section leaders.