Department of the GeoPhysical Sciences

Geophysical Science News

• Alum Megan Mansfield to Join Tenure Track at University of Maryland

  April 23, 2024

  Department alum Megan Mansfield (PhD 2021) will be joining the University of Maryland as an Assistant Professor next year. Her new group will focus broadly on the spectroscopic characterization of transiting exoplanet atmospheres. Congratulations, Megan!

• Rossbypalooza2024 is now open for registration!

  April 11, 2024

  Rossbypalooza2024 is now open for registration! Rossbypalooza 2024 aims to provide a platform for interactions among students and faculty to understand climate extremes, their impacts, and their connection to climate change from various perspectives including small-to-large-scale dynamics and data-driven methodologies. For more information on the application process and logistics, see: http://www.rossbypalooza.org/ 

• Sifang Chen Awarded AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Award

  April 04, 2024

  Congratulations to Sifang Chen for being awarded the AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Award! This was based on his presentation, "Basin Effect on Ground Motion Examined Using Laboratory Seismic Data Based on 3D-Printed Los Angeles Basin Structure", in the last AGU of 2023. 

• Congratulations to DOE recipient Logan Cabral-Pelletier

  April 04, 2024

  Congratulation to Logan Cabral-Pelletier on being awarded a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF).  The DOE fellowship provides up to four years of stipend and other benefits to PhD students using hig-performance computing to solve complex sciences and engineering problems.