Greetings from the High Seas!
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences faculty member Will Sager, along with a group of UH graduate students, spent 48 days aboard the R/V Nathaniel B Palmer studying the Rio Grande Rise oceanic rise in the Atlantic Ocean offshore of Brazil and Uruguay.
UH and TAMU Joint Geology Field Trip
Field trip investigated complex paradox basin tectonics and stratigraphy.
John C. Butler Memorial Garden
The rock garden, maintained by the undergraduate student group GeoSociety, is used as an educational tool to help introductory students learn to identify various types of rocks. It includes igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary samples, as well as an Inoceramus (bivalve) fossil.
33rd Annual Student Research Day/Alumni and Industry Open House
This year's event had a record attendance of approximately 200. There were 62 presentations by undergraduate, M.S., and Ph.D. students in the fields of geology, geophysics and atmospheric science.
2017 EAS Summer Geology Field Camp in Montana
Dr. Mike Murphy and UH undergraduates in the Summer 2017 Field Camp visit the overlook of Beartooth Plateau in southwest Montana. The group is listening to a lecture by Diana Krupnik, an EAS Ph.D. student serving as a summer intern through the U.S. Forest Service GeoCorps Program.
Houston Geological Society Dinner with EAS Current and Former Students
A Houston Geological Society dinner meeting, held May 14, 2018, included UH Earth & Atmospheric Sciences current and former students. At center of photo is American Association of Petroleum Geologists president, Charles Sternbach.
AAPG Wildcatters
Officers and members of AAPG Wildcatters student club meet on UH campus with AAPG President Charles Sternbach in March, 2018.
UH Earth Science Ranked in Global Top 50
Mineralogy Class
100 sophomore geology and geophysics students are enrolled in Dr. Jon Snow’s mineralogy class for the fall of 2017. The class includes 78 enrolled in mineralogy and 22 enrolled in Rocks and Minerals.
Rob Stewart Elected SEG President
Stewart will assume office at 2018 annual meeting.
Qi Fu: NSF CAREER Award 2017
Qi Fu, assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, received a five-year, $516,575 National Science Foundation CAREER Award to pursue the study of how organic compounds are formed in hydrothermal environments on the sea floor.
UH Team Wins the AAPG Imperial Barrel Award 2017 World Finals
Winning team consisted of 5 EAS graduate students: Walter Reed (M.S.), Eric Lunn (Ph.D., team captain), Delaney Robinson (Ph.D.), Leiser Silva(M.S.), and Andrew Steier (M.S.) [not pictured]. The dataset they presented was the Taranaki basin, New Zealand. 190 teams competed.
Munoz Spends Six Weeks at Sea
Yuribia Munoz participated in a research expedition to Antarctica aboard the research vessel and ice breaker Araon. It was her third field season in the Antarctic as a UH student.
Future Geologists
Children examine a large Inoceramus fossil in the John C. Butler Memorial Planter and Rock Garden outside SR1. They were part of an elementary student, homeschool cooperative field trip led by Jonny Wu, assistant professor. Inoceramus is an extinct genus of bivalve that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods (189-66 million years ago).
Geophysics and Seismology Programs Ranked No. 1 in U.S.
High ranking appears in Geology Schools and in Campus Explorer.
Structural Mapping in the Rio Grande Rift
Yiduo Andy Liu, EAS PhD student, conducting structural mapping in the Rio Grande rift, summer of 2016.
Society of Exploration Geophysicists Annual Meeting
EAS MS student Eddie Eid working at the information booth at the Society of Exploration Geophysicists annual meeting in Dallas, Texas, October, 2016. EAS students and faculty delivered a record of nearly 60 oral and poster presentations at this meeting.
Peer Reviewed EAS Publications
Peer-reviewed publications of faculty and students of the Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (2012-present). Click for more information.
Research Cruise to Tamu Massif Volcano
UH team completed the research cruise to underwater volcano, Tamu Massif, on the R/V Falkor. Seven Earth and Atmospheric Sciences students joined Professor Will Sager to gather data to determine how the world's largest single volcano was formed.
YBRA Field Camp
Second session of the UH summer undergraduate geology field camp in July-August, 2015, based at the Yellowstone Bighorn Research Association's Geology Field Station (YBRA) located south of town of Red Lodge in southwestern Montana.
Measuring with Jacob's Staff
Measuring stratigraphic section with Jacob's staff, 2012 undergrad field methods class, Big Bend Park, Texas.
2012 Undergrad Field Methods Class
Preparing for a day of field mapping, 2012 undergrad field methods class, Big Bend Park, Texas.
In The Spotlight
New study looks at impact in El Paso, Texas.
Presented by the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.