July 12, 2017
Graduate student Lily Thompson was awarded a William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship, one of the highest honors that the University of Chicago grants doctoral candidates. Each Harper Fellowship includes a $4,000 stipend. Lily is studying the material properties of hydrous phases under extreme high-pressure and high-temperature conditions utilizing a combination of theoretical calculations and synchrotron-based diamond anvil cell experiments. She is advised by Associate Professor Andy Campbell.
June 28, 2017
The pioneering meteorologist and author of The Thunderstorm is dead at 96.
June 28, 2017
DoGS postdoc Alice Marzocchi and assistant professor Malte Jansen have recently published the paper “Connecting Antarctic sea ice to deep-ocean circulation in modern and glacial climate simulations” in Geophysical Research Letters. The study investigates the effect of increased Antarctic sea ice formation during glacial periods on the meridional overturning circulation in a number of climate models that are also used for future projections. The proposed mechanism explains more than half of the intermodel spread and discrepancies with the geological record can broadly be reconciled.