January 03, 2018
Professor Doug MacAyeal's involvement with the public-art piece "White Wanderer" was marked by the New Yorker magazine as a defining moment of 2017. Professor MacAyeal provided a seven minute audio track of iceberg B15 breaking off from the Antarctic ice shelf which the artists used in their installation.
December 27, 2017
In the December 22nd edition of the Astrophysical Journal Professor Nicholas Dauphas lays out a comprehensive theory for how our solar system could have formed in the wind-blown bubbles around a giant, long-dead star. His work addresses a nagging cosmic mystery about the abundance of two elements in our solar system compared to the rest of the galaxy. The general prevailing theory is that our solar system formed billions of years ago near a supernova. But the new scenario instead begins with a giant type of star called a Wolf-Rayet star, which is more than 40 to 50 times the size of our own sun.
December 18, 2017
Congratulations to Associate Professor Tiffany Shaw, who was recently awarded the James B. Macelwane Medal at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. The medal is given for "significant contributions to the geophysical sciences by an outstanding early career scientist."