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• 2026
• 05/14/26 NSM Celebrates 909 Graduates at Spring 2026 Commencement
• 04/21/26 Remembering Rosalie Maddocks
• 03/26/26 UH Earth Scientist Co-Authors Award-Winning Textbook Recognized with National Honors
• 02/26/26 Three NSM Faculty Members Among UH’s Seven Senior Members Named to the National Academy of Inventors
• 02/17/26 UH Ph.D. Candidate Helps Lead International Speleothem Science Summer School in Morocco
• 02/04/26 University of Houston Researcher Helps Unlock Rare Antarctic Glacier Record
• 02/03/26 DOE Award Supports UH Doctoral Student’s Arctic Climate Research
• 2025
• 12/19/25 NSM Celebrates 677 Graduates at Fall 2025 Commencement
• 12/01/25 Petex Donates MOVE Software Suite to Department
• 10/09/25 UH AAPG Wildcatters Highlight Student Internships and Host Career Preparation Event
• 10/06/25 A Decade of Discovery: Earth Science Field Education at the University of Houston Coastal Center (UHCC)
• 09/25/25 Jiaxuan Li is 2025 AGU Seismology Keiiti Aki Early Career Award Recipient
• 08/28/25 EAS Students Examine Earth’s Magnetic Striping in Pacific Ocean
• 08/11/25 Wellner Appointed Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
• 08/01/25 Geophysics Professor Evgeni Chesnokov Retires After 51 Years of Teaching and Research
• 08/01/25 Thomas K. Bjorklund, Esteemed Petroleum Geologist and UH Researcher, Dies at 87
• 08/01/25 UH EAS Alum Jingjing Zong Receives SEG Karcher Award for Excellence in Geophysics
• 06/25/25 UH Geophysicist’s 1986 Paper Becomes Most-Cited Work in Field's History
• 06/24/25 UH AAPG Wildcatters Host Expert-Led Course on Hydrocarbon Migration in Petroleum Systems
• 06/18/25 Facies in the Field: Investigating Glacial, Volcanic, Coastal, and Deep-Marine Systems in Washington and Oregon
• 06/09/25 New Dean Named for College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
• 05/20/25 UH Team Wins Second Place at the Imperial Barrel Award North American Semi-Finals Competition March 20, 2025
• 04/23/25 EAS Master’s Students Host Hands-On Event for Elementary School Students
• 04/22/25 Tracking Volcanoes by the Minute: NSM Professor’s Research Published in Science
• 02/21/25 Student Research Grants Program Winners Selected for Spring 2025
• 02/05/25 University of Houston Scientist Hopes to Alter Understanding of Lake Formations
• 01/23/25 To the Ends of the Earth
• 01/23/25 Abram Riggs Receives Houston Geological Society Scholarship
• 01/08/25 Graduate Students Attend One-Day Seminar for Hydrocarbon Explorationists on Missed Opportunities and Surprise Successes
• 2024
• 12/20/24 Twelve EAS Students Recognized for Research and Presentation Excellence at 2024 Sheriff Lecture
• 12/20/24 Petex Donates MOVE Software Suite to Department
• 12/19/24 University of Houston Scientists Solving Meteorological Mysteries on Mars
• 12/18/24 Geology Ph.D. Graduate Yu-Huan Hsieh Receives Dan E. Wells Outstanding Dissertation Award
• 12/16/24 Exploring Earth’s Dynamic Forces: Long Point Fault Field Trip Brings Geoscience to Life
• 12/13/24 Petroleum Systems Modeling Short Course Organized by EAS AAPG Wildcatters and SEG Wavelets
• 12/10/24 Geology Major Iliana Solheim Featured in Provost Profiles
• 10/31/24 UH Geologists Find Significant Texas Coastal Impacts from Hurricane Beryl
• 10/31/24 Field Trip to Natural Bridge Caverns with UH Geology and Non-Geology Students
• 10/25/24 Student Research Grants Program Winners Announced for Fall 2024
• 08/16/24 New Method Developed Uses Hyperspectral Imaging to Characterize Mineral Composition in Cave Deposits
• 07/31/24 A New View of How the Ocean Melts Antarctica’s Ice Shelves
• 06/24/24 Geology Ph.D. Student Daniel Maya Represents UH and Ecuador in AAPG Leadership Summit
• 06/18/24 UH Scientists Discover Massive Energy Imbalance on Saturn
• 06/05/24 Graduate Student Field Course Examined Lithofacies in New Mexico
• 06/03/24 New Book on Leadership in Applied Geoscience and the Energy Industry
• 06/03/24 UH Team Wins Third Place at the Imperial Barrel Award Global Finals on May 31
• 06/03/24 University of Houston Study Shows Electric Vehicles Can Have Positive Impact on Air Quality and Public Health in Some Cities, Not All
• 05/20/24 EAS Master’s Student Earns Scholarship from AIPG
• 05/17/24 Hands-on Shortcourse on PaleoScan Seismic Interpretation Software Organized by EAS AAPG Wildcatters Student Group
• 05/06/24 Geoscience and Atmospheric Science Students Recognized for Excellence at 37th Annual Student Research Conference
• 04/23/24 Geophysicists Join Effort to Restore Historic Fifth Ward Cemetery
• 04/05/24 UH Welcomes Leading Scientists for a Discussion on the Threats of Rising Sea Levels on Coastal Communities
• 04/04/24 University of Houston Researchers Confirm Ozone & Particulates are Issues in San Antonio Air
• 04/03/24 Unveiling the Hidden Threat: Drought-Induced Inelastic Subsidence in Expansive Soils
• 03/29/24 UH Team Advances to Imperial Barrel Award World Finals Held in May 2024
• 03/21/24 Geophysics Ph.D. Student’s Research is a Game Changer for Oil and Gas Exploration
• 03/08/24 FIELDGeo Program Invites Undergraduates to See Rock Formations the Way Geologists Do
• 03/05/24 Spring Student Research Grants Program Winners Announced
• 02/26/24 Antarctica’s Retreating Glaciers: Study Suggests Significant Glacial Retreat in West Antarctica Began in 1940s
• 01/26/24 Atmospheric Scientist Explores New Drought Prediction Models
• 2023
• 12/20/23 Trio of EAS Professors Chosen for AAPG Distinguished Lecture Program
• 12/20/23 EAS Department Research Represented by 57 Oral and Poster Presentations at Fall American Geophysical Union
• 12/12/23 Atmospheric Sciences Tools Expand Air Quality Data Collection Possibilities
• 12/01/23 Twelve EAS Students Recognized for Research and Presentation Excellence at 2023 Sheriff Lecture
• 11/28/23 UH SEG Wavelets Student Group Introduces Geophysics to K-12 Students
• 11/20/23 UH Faculty Receive $1 Million from NSF to Fund Field Investigations and Experiences Leading to Degrees in Geoscience (FIELDGeo)
• 11/16/23 Youtong Zheng Earns Department of Energy Early Career Award to Study Correlation Between Air Pollution and Storm Strength
• 11/06/23 A Cutting-Edge Approach to Tackling Pollution in Houston and Beyond
• 10/27/23 Fall Student Research Grants Program Winners Announced
• 10/04/23 International Summer School in Brazil Gives Ali Raza Rare Research Opportunity
• 09/28/23 Finding Critical Minerals Could Get Easier with UH Geological Research Team’s Discovery
• 09/11/23 Atmospheric Scientists Reveal Much of Houston’s Ozone Exceedance Due to Air Flows from the North
• 09/06/23 Geophysics Ph.D. Student Named to Inaugural Cohort of UH-Chevron Energy Graduate Fellows
• 08/30/23 NASA Program Gives Students New Perspective on Environmental Research from the Air and Ground
• 08/24/23 Sediment Movement During Hurricane Harvey Could Negatively Impact Future Flooding, Prove Costly to Houston, UH Study Finds
• 08/17/23 EAS Geology Major Appointed as Student Councilor-at-Large for AIPG-Texas Section
• 08/15/23 Team Studies Outdoor Air Movement and the Effects on Spread of Respiratory Diseases
• 06/27/23 Geophysics Ph.D. Student Receives Student Presentation Award
• 06/26/23 Study: Wildfire Smoke Downwind Affects Health, Wealth and Mortality
• 06/15/23 University of Houston Researcher Awarded $1.2M Grant to Assess Impacts of Biomass Burning on Texas Air Quality
• 05/18/23 UH Geology Students and Professors Study Sedimentary Facies in Washington
• 05/10/23 Journey to the Smithsonian: Andrew Flynn Earns Prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowship
• 05/03/23 36th Annual EAS Student Research Conference Held On April 28
• 05/01/23 Two EAS Ph.D. Students Win Poster Awards at GeoGulf Conference
• 04/20/23 New Elsevier Volume on Deepwater Sedimentation and Exploration by EAS Researchers
• 03/29/23 Study Finds Sulfate Pollution Impacts Texas Gulf Coast Air
• 03/13/23 UH Doctoral Student Helps Create Improved AI Method for Measuring Surface Nitrogen Dioxide Levels
• 03/02/23 Spring Student Research Grants Program Winners Announced
• 03/01/23 UH Geologist Virginia Sisson Earns AAPG’s Grover E. Murray Memorial Distinguished Educator Award
• 02/17/23 EAS Student Earns Scholarship from Houston Geological Society
• 02/10/23 UH Geologist Receives CAREER Award to Explore Effects of Climate Change on River Systems
• 02/07/23 EAS and NSM Celebrate Black History Month
• 02/07/23 Ph.D. Student Claudia Bernier Receives Outstanding Student Presentation Award
• 2022
• 12/19/22 Xiaolong Wei Receives Dan E. Wells Outstanding Dissertation Award
• 12/06/22 Petroleum Experts Limited Donates MOVE Software Suite to Department
• 11/28/22 Six EAS Students Recognized for Research and Presentation Excellence at 2022 Sheriff Lecture
• 11/02/22 Ryugu Asteroid Samples Advance Knowledge of Birth of Our Solar System
• 11/01/22 Student Research Grants Program Awards Announced
• 10/31/22 Heavens on Earth: What Our Solar System Reveals About Our Home Planet
• 10/26/22 Hasan, Ph.D. Student, Wins Best Student Poster Presentation Award at HGS-PESGB Africa Conference
• 10/25/22 Combining Modelling and Multiproxy Approach to Advance Paleoclimate and Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction
• 10/11/22 Researchers Find ‘Significant Rates’ of Sinking Ground in Houston Suburbs
• 10/06/22 EAS Awarded NSF Grant for Isotope Instrumentation
• 09/26/22 New UH Mentoring Scholarship Program Aims to Fill Future Demand for STEM Jobs
• 09/16/22 Hurricanes and Pollution: Studying a Connection
• 09/14/22 Postdoctoral Fellow Receives Prestigious NSF Award for Pacific Plate Tectonics Research
• 09/13/22 Atmospheric Scientists Study Under-Researched Role of Clouds in Regulating Earth’s Temperature
• 09/12/22 Ph.D. Student Michael Comas Receives GSA Research Grant
• 09/09/22 UH Hosting Lecture by ‘Father of Environmental Justice’ Robert D. Bullard
• 08/16/22 SEG Wavelets Student Chapter Recognized as “Ridge-Level Chapter”
• 07/18/22 Geophysicists Use Machine Learning to Study Formation of Oceanic Plateaus
• 07/05/22 Tracing Pollution’s Impact on Thunderstorms in Houston
• 06/02/22 UH Geology Students and Professors Study Sedimentary Facies in West Colorado and Central Utah
• 05/17/22 Spencer Fuston Receives Dan E. Wells Outstanding Dissertation Award
• 05/16/22 Buildup of Solar Heat Likely Contributes to Mars’ Dust Storms, Researchers Find
• 05/10/22 35th Annual EAS Student Research Conference Held as Virtual Meeting April 29
• 05/09/22 Air Pollution Dropped During Pandemic Lockdowns
• 04/21/22 Graduate Student Awarded Department of Defense Scholarship, Internship and Guaranteed Employment
• 04/08/22 Three EAS Students Recognized for Best Research and Poster Presentations at Dobrin Lecture
• 04/07/22 EAS PhD, MS and BS Graduates Land Positions at a Variety of Companies
• 03/24/22 Student Research Funding Program Awards Announced
• 02/24/22 National Academy of Engineering Welcomes UH Research Professor of Geophysics Leon Thomsen
• 02/14/22 Flynn Named a Senior Member of National Academy of Inventors
• 02/01/22 Publication Elevates Voices of Indigenous Scientists
• 01/26/22 UH Researcher Collects Data from Tonga Volcanic Eruption
• 2021
• 11/15/21 Five EAS Students Recognized for Research and Presentation Excellence at 2021 Sheriff Lecture
• 10/19/21 Geology Graduate Student Receives GSA Specialized Award for Antarctic Research
• 10/15/21 Atmospheric Science Doctoral Student Awarded NASA Future Investigators Grant
• 10/11/21 Department Initiates Student Research Funding Program
• 09/27/21 Does Pollution Make Thunderstorms More Severe?
• 09/02/21 Inside NSM: Rock and Mineral Collection
• 08/12/21 Atmospheric Sciences Ph.D. Student Wraps Up Internship with NOAA
• 08/09/21 Geology Graduate Wins 2021 AAPG Jules Braunstein Memorial Award
• 07/22/21 Laura Taylor Receives UH Outstanding Senior Thesis Award
• 07/21/21 UH Research Sheds New Light on How Passing Seismic Waves Can Trigger Earthquakes
• 07/12/21 UH Geology Students and Professors Study Sedimentary Facies in Washington
• 07/07/21 Ph.D. Student Wins Third Place Poster Award at GeoGulf 2020 Conference
• 07/02/21 Three EAS Faculty to Receive Awards at Joint SEG-AAPG Meeting IMAGE 2021
• 06/24/21 Artificial Intelligence Breakthrough Gives Longer Advance Warning of Ozone Issues
• 06/23/21 Research by EAS Graduate Students Recognized in the Mining Sessions at 2020 SEG Annual Meeting
• 06/21/21 The Power of Limestone Caves to Store Information about its Environment
• 06/15/21 Subsurface Geophysics is Key to Geological Carbon Dioxide Storage
• 06/14/21 Takashita-Bynum, Ph.D. Student, Awarded Grants for Paleoenvironmental Research
• 05/24/21 Hauptvogel and Sisson Release Open Access Lab Manual on Historical Geology
• 05/19/21 34th Annual EAS Student Research Conference Held as Virtual Meeting April 30
• 04/29/21 EAS Student Honored with Provost’s Teaching Excellence Award
• 04/27/21 Two NSM Undergraduates Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
• 04/19/21 UH Team Places Second in 2021 Gulf Coast Section of AAPG Imperial Barrel Award Competition
• 04/19/21 Adjunct Faculty Leads Team to Develop Successful Hybrid Geology Field Camp During Initial COVID-19 Outbreak
• 04/13/21 Bluware Donates Use of Software to University of Houston Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
• 04/07/21 Teaching with Technology: Geology Alums Step in to Enhance Education During Pandemic
• 04/02/21 UH Students Excel at Best Student Poster Presentations at the 2020 AAPG Annual Convention & Exhibition
• 03/25/21 EAS Alum Amanda Pascali Selected for Geoscientists in the Parks Position
• 03/12/21 Julia Wellner Chosen as USSSP Ocean Discovery Lecturer
• 03/11/21 UH Geologists Discover Powerful ‘River of Rocks’ Below Caribbean
• 02/24/21 UH Geologists Search for Remains of Lost Ocean Beneath Earth’s Surface
• 02/12/21 Paul Mann Receives AAPG’s Distinguished Educator Award
• 01/20/21 Work of Wu and Fuston Named One of “10 Geological Discoveries that Rocked 2020”
• 2020
• 11/09/20 EAS Researchers’ Work Featured on Journal Cover and as Editor’s Highlight
• 11/09/20 Eight EAS Students Recognized for Research and Presentation Excellence at Sheriff Lecture
• 11/02/20 Sun Named Associate Editor for New Data Integration Section in the Journal, GEOPHYSICS
• 10/30/20 Suppe and Colleagues Receive 2020 Best Seminal Paper Award
• 10/30/20 Graduate Student Team Recognized for Best Investment Opportunity and Other Accolades in SEG EVOLVE Program
• 10/22/20 Turbulent Era Sparked Leap in Human Behavior, Adaptability 320,000 Years Ago
• 10/21/20 EAS Alumni Association Welcomes New Board and Committee Members
• 10/20/20 Lost and Found: UH Geologists ‘Resurrect’ Missing Tectonic Plate
• 10/20/20 Yingcai Zheng Named Robert and Margaret Sheriff Professor in Applied Geophysics
• 10/19/20 Five Geoscience Students Recognized for Presentations at the 21st Annual Geoscience Student Expo
• 10/08/20 Strong Employment Reported for 2020 EAS PhD and MS Graduates
• 09/30/20 First Machine Learning Workshop on Mineral Exploration Organized for 2020 SEG Annual Meeting
• 09/23/20 EAS Students Invited as Keynote Speakers for Latin American Petroleum Conference
• 09/21/20 New Data Shows How Underwater Channels Facilitate Antarctic Ice Melt
• 09/16/20 EAS Graduate Students Receive Grant for K-5 Outreach
• 08/13/20 Choi Receives Grants Totaling $500K to Improve Accuracy for Short- and Long-Term Air Quality Modeling
• 08/06/20 Geology Ph.D. Student Receives $20,000 GEM Fellowship
• 07/31/20 A New Chemical Analysis Upends Conventional Explanation for Global Cooling
• 07/27/20 Wellner Elected Geological Society of America Fellow
• 06/08/20 Arellano, PhD Student, Awarded Grant for Climate Research in Panama
• 06/03/20 PhD Student Kyle Reuber Receives SEG/AAPG Best Paper Award for the Journal Interpretation
• 05/29/20 In Memoriam: Margaret Sites Sheriff
• 05/26/20 EAS Graduate Awarded Dan E. Wells Outstanding Dissertation Award
• 05/22/20 Back from the Bottom of the World
• 05/19/20 Zheng and Co-Authors Receive Award for Best Poster Paper Presented at 2019 SEG Annual Meeting
• 05/15/20 Graduate Students Present Research at AAPG Hedberg Conference in Mexico City
• 05/11/20 UH Professor Leon Thomsen Awarded SEG’s Maurice Ewing Medal
• 04/22/20 Atmospheric Sciences Researchers Expand Carbon Aerosol Monitoring to Houston Area
• 04/16/20 Two UH EAS Students Awarded AAPG Grants-in-Aid
• 04/07/20 UH Team Places Second in 2020 Gulf Coast Section of AAPG’s Imperial Barrel Award Competition
• 03/30/20 Geophysics Student Awarded Top Overall Scholarship by HGS Undergraduate Scholarship Foundation
• 03/11/20 Petroleum Experts Limited Donates MOVE Software Suite to Department
• 03/09/20 GeoSociety Organized Annual Winter Geological Field Trip to Southern New Mexico
• 03/02/20 EAS PhD, MS, and BS Graduates and Current Students Acquire Positions with 20 Oil Exploration and Service Companies
• 02/20/20 Atmospheric Sciences Ph.D. Student Awarded NASA STEM Fellowship
• 02/10/20 In Memoriam: Dr. Robert W. Talbot
• 02/07/20 On the Atlantic: Students Experience Research Trip of a Lifetime
• 01/13/20 Geophysics Students Organize Exploration Software Bootcamp
• 2019
• 12/19/19 EAS PhD Students Present at Norwegian Consulate’s “Arctic Hour”
• 12/11/19 Kenning, PhD Student, Wins Best Student Oral Presentation at GeoGulf 19
• 12/03/19 A Study of Saturn’s Largest Moon May Offer Insights for Earth
• 12/03/19 Ph.D. Student Wins Second Place Poster Award at HGS-EAGE Latin America Conference
• 11/22/19 Ph.D. Student Wins Second Place Poster Award at GeoGulf 19 Conference
• 11/22/19 Six Students Recognized for Research and Presentation Excellence at Sheriff Lecture
• 11/18/19 Geology Ph.D. Student Awarded NASA Grant
• 11/14/19 Global Climate Change Concerns for Africa’s Lake Victoria
• 11/04/19 Dupré Receives Two Major Awards
• 10/29/19 New AI Deep Learning Model Allows Earlier, More Accurate Ozone Warnings
• 10/16/19 Two EAS Professors to Receive Awards from AAPG
• 10/15/19 GeoSociety Undergraduate Student Organization Creates Second Rock Garden
• 10/15/19 Three Positions in Sedimentary Geology
• 10/14/19 Mapping Flood Zones: Environmental Sciences Undergraduate Interns at NOAA
• 10/02/19 Suppe Elected as AGU Fellow
• 10/01/19 Petroleum Experts Limited Donates MOVE Software Suite to Department
• 09/30/19 EAS Faculty Xinding Fang Receives SEG’s J. Clarence Karcher Award
• 09/25/19 Yuxuan Wang Receives NASA Grant to Study Drought Stress on Biogenic Emissions
• 09/17/19 CAMP2Ex: Measuring Aerosols in the Philippines
• 09/17/19 Sequence Stratigraphy Field Trip to Wyoming
• 09/03/19 Four EAS Graduate Students Receive HGS Calvert Scholarships
• 09/03/19 Resume Workshop Held for EAS Students
• 08/26/19 Crack in Pacific Seafloor Caused Volcanic Chain to Go Dormant
• 08/08/19 Houston 2040: Health and Economic Impact of Reducing Vehicle Emissions
• 07/08/19 Research Yields New Clues to the Origin of Tamu Massif
• 06/26/19 Geology Alumna Receives National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
• 06/14/19 UH and University of Virginia Students Take Joint Geology Field Trip to Washington
• 06/10/19 UH Geoscience Team Wins International Petroleum Exploration Competition
• 06/07/19 EAS Ph.D. Student wins Houston Geological Society Rising Star Service Award
• 06/06/19 Amanda Pascali Receives 2019 AAPG L. Austin Weeks Undergraduate Grant
• 05/31/19 UH Team Wins World Finals of AAPG Imperial Barrel Award
• 05/31/19 Geology Ph.D. Student Wins First Place in Student Poster Competition at AAPG Convention
• 05/20/19 Environmental Sciences Major, True Furrh, Receives Udall Scholarship
• 05/01/19 EAS Student Research Conference and Industry Open House Held April 26
• 04/25/19 Geology Graduate Student Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• 04/04/19 UH Team Wins Gulf Coast Section 2019 AAPG Imperial Barrel Award Competition
• 03/22/19 Van Nieuwenhuise Selected as President-Elect of Gulf Coast Section of SEPM
• 03/18/19 EAS Department Ranked 54th in US News and World Report Survey of Geoscience Departments
• 03/11/19 On the Ice
• 03/07/19 Sternbach Authors Forbes Piece on Super Basins
• 03/06/19 UH Geologist Receives CAREER Award to Tackle Reconstruction of Panthalassa-Pacific Plates
• 02/21/19 EAS Researchers Study Effects of Biomass Burning on Air Quality
• 02/18/19 Okyay and Khan Honored with John I. Davidson President’s Award for Practical Papers
• 02/11/19 Research by EAS Master’s Student Featured in GEO ExPro
• 02/04/19 Students Win Top Poster Awards at Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Annual Meeting
• 01/25/19 Geophysics Professor and Graduate Students Return from Research Cruise
• 01/23/19 Ocean Drilling Project Seeks Clues to Future Sea Level Rise
• 01/23/19 UH Scientists Reconstruct Ancient Lost Plates Under Andes Mountains
• 01/23/19 Copeland Named Science Editor of GSA Today
• 01/08/19 Unlocking the Mystery of Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier
• 2018
• 12/21/18 Grad and Undergrad Students Attend One-day Drone Short Course
• 11/07/18 EAS Undergrad to Present Research Poster to UH Board of Regents
• 11/01/18 UH Grad Student Earns NASA Fellowship for Climate Modeling
• 10/31/18 UH EAS Alumnus Wins SEG Best Paper Award
• 10/18/18 UH and TAMU Conduct Joint Geology Field Trip to Colorado and Utah for EAS Graduate-Level Class
• 10/16/18 Hauptvogel sails for STEMSEAS
• 10/03/18 Training the Next Generation of Environmental Experts
• 10/03/18 CBTH Group Holds Year-End Meeting on Annual Progress
• 09/24/18 Away They Go: Science Outreach on the Big Island
• 09/24/18 Students Win Top Poster Awards at Annual Africa Oil Exploration and Production Conference
• 09/14/18 A Conversation with Robert Stewart, Ph.D.
• 09/12/18 Geology Graduate Student Awarded Mineralogical Society of America Grant
• 08/30/18 Geophysics Ph.D. Student Wins Second Place at 2018 Halliburton LIFE Conference
• 08/30/18 Environmental Science Undergraduate Receives Hollings Environmental Science Scholarship
• 08/27/18 Kevin Burke Eulogized by American Geophysical Union and Lunar and Planetary Institute
• 08/27/18 EAS Undergrad Interns at Southern California Earthquake Center
• 08/24/18 Summer 2018 Big Island SO2 Survey (S.O.S.)
• 08/21/18 Ph.D. Student Receives Geological Society of America Grant
• 08/15/18 Ph.D. Student Receives Geological Society of America Grant
• 08/13/18 EAS Undergrad Receives Geological Society of America Research Grant
• 08/07/18 Ph.D. Graduate Lands Position at Harvard-Smithsonian Center of Astrophysics
• 08/06/18 Improving Job Market and Oil Price Result in Increased Hiring of EAS Grads
• 08/01/18 Ph.D. Student Recognized at Japan Geoscience Union Conference
• 07/30/18 UH Researchers Report New Understanding of Deep Earthquakes
• 07/24/18 Kotsakis Starting Fellowship with NASA Goddard
• 07/23/18 How the West Was Built: A Geologic History of the Rocky Mountains
• 07/20/18 Mapping Changes in the Galveston Bay Channel After Harvey
• 06/29/18 UH Students Arrive in China for Landslide Research
• 06/28/18 Heather Bedle Leaves EAS for University of Oklahoma
• 06/22/18 NSF Grant Funds Research on Paleozoic Rivers in the Western US
• 06/22/18 Choi Receives Grant to Study East Asia’s Air Pollution Caused by Dust Storms
• 06/06/18 UH Students Depart to China for Landslide Research
• 06/01/18 Graduate Students Attend Sequence Stratigraphy Field Course
• 05/29/18 AAPG Wildcatters Student Chapter Recognized as “Outstanding Domestic Student Chapter”
• 05/25/18 Geology Ph.D. Student Wins Fourth Place in Student Poster Contest at AAPG Annual Convention
• 05/21/18 Geology Graduate Student Selected For Antarctica Research Expedition
• 05/18/18 2018 EAS Student Research Day Conference and Industrial Open House
• 05/17/18 UH EAS Wins GSA/ExxonMobil Field Camp Excellence Award
• 05/08/18 UH Students Launch Student-Run Earth Sciences Journal
• 05/08/18 EAS Geology Major Selected for 2018 Summer Latino Heritage Internship Program
• 04/30/18 What Can Past Glacier Behavior Tell Us About Future Sea Level Rise?
• 04/24/18 UH Researchers Test New Method to Measure Effect of Volcanic Eruptions
• 04/19/18 Environmental Science Major Selected for TCEQ Mickey Leland Environmental Internship Program
• 04/09/18 Professional Master’s Program: Top-Tier Education for Geoscientists
• 04/04/18 EAS Class Project Involves Edits to SEG Wiki
• 04/03/18 Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Graduate Program Ranking on the Rise
• 04/03/18 Atmospheric Science M.S. Student Selected for NCEP Student Internship Program
• 03/28/18 In Memoriam: Kevin C. A. Burke, Ph.D., UH Professor of Geology and Tectonics (1929-2018)
• 03/05/18 Grant Funds Ongoing Houston-Area Ozone Monitoring
• 02/27/18 EAS Students Attend AIPG-GeoDayZ
• 02/21/18 Four EAS Ph.D. Students Awarded AAPG Grants-in-Aid
• 02/14/18 NASA Grant Funds Martian Volcano Research
• 02/14/18 Annual Dobrin Lecture Held February 5
• 02/02/18 Ph.D. Student Wins Second Place Poster Award at 2017 Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Annual Meeting
• 01/31/18 Uncovering Secrets of the Ocean Floor
• 01/30/18 Sisson Elected Fellow of Mineralogical Society of America
• 01/12/18 EAS Geology Ph.D. Student Wins Top 10 Oral Presentation Award at 2017 AAPG Annual Convention
• 2017
• 12/22/17 AAPG Leadership Convenes Annual Global Leadership Conference at UH
• 12/22/17 EAS Ph.D. Student Wins AAPG Braunstein Memorial Award
• 12/20/17 Calculating Impact of Wildfires on Human Health
• 12/12/17 UH Professor of Geology Wins Book Award for Memoir on Colombian Petroleum Geology
• 11/30/17 EAS-HGS Annual Sheriff Lecture 2017
• 11/17/17 UH Earth Science Ranked in Global Top 50
• 11/09/17 Geology Graduate Student Attends Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology
• 10/31/17 After Harvey: Scientists Study Changes in Galveston Bay
• 10/04/17 Three Graduate Students Receive HGS Calvert Scholarships
• 10/02/17 Wellner Selected as Co-Chief Scientist of Ocean Drilling Project in Antarctica
• 09/22/17 Stewart Elected SEG President
• 09/15/17 EAS Faculty and Graduate Students Assess Harvey's Geologic and Meteorological Impacts
• 08/23/17 Students Survey San Luis Pass Flood Tidal Delta Southwest of Galveston Island
• 07/24/17 Director of NSF Beijing Office Meets EAS students in China
• 07/21/17 M-OSRP Holds Annual Technical Review
• 06/28/17 Students Travel to China for Landslide Research
• 06/12/17 UH Geochemist Searches for Answers on the Sea Floor
• 05/31/17 Graduate Students Travel to Washington State for Field Courses
• 05/30/17 Detecting Long-Term Changes in Air Pollution from Space
• 05/15/17 From Field Camp to GeoCorps America Researcher in Red Lodge, Montana
• 05/15/17 Khan Honored with NSM's Butler Teaching Award
• 05/08/17 Geology Ph.D. Student Awarded NSF Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology Scholarship
• 05/05/17 Outstanding Student Oral Presentations and Posters Chosen for 2017 EAS Student Research Day
• 04/27/17 Geoscience Student Team Wins Imperial Barrel Award World Championship
• 04/25/17 Yuxuan Wang Receives NSF Grant to Study Beijing's Air Pollution
• 04/20/17 UH Team Wins World Finals of 2017 AAPG Imperial Barrel Award Competition
• 04/20/17 EAS Geology and Geophysics Undergrads Head to Grad Schools in Fall 2017
• 04/17/17 UH Team Wins World Finals of 2017 AAPG Imperial Barrel Award Competition
• 04/17/17 Geology Ph.D. Student Wins First Place in Student Poster Competition at 2017 AAPG Annual Convention
• 04/12/17 Department Expands Hands-On Learning at the Geoscience Learning Center
• 04/10/17 EAS Researcher Returns from Meteorite Expedition to Antarctica
• 03/31/17 Two UH Ph.D. Students Awarded AAPG Grants-in-Aid
• 03/21/17 UH Team Wins Gulf Coast Section 2017 AAPG Imperial Barrel Award Competition
• 03/14/17 EAS Department Ranked 64 in U.S. by US News and World Report
• 02/28/17 Undergraduate Awarded for Student Poster Presentation at Conference on Passive Margins
• 02/27/17 EAS Grad Student Headed to Antarctica
• 02/27/17 Undergraduate Geology Student Wins Prestigious Internship at NASA's Lunar and Planetary Institute
• 02/24/17 EAS Graduate Students Continue Outreach at Local Elementary School
• 02/01/17 The Martian (Rock): Evidence of Two Billion Years of Volcanic Activity
• 02/01/17 UH Among Top U.S. Universities for Return on Investment and Upward Mobility
• 01/30/17 EAS Downtowners Alumni Gather for Lunch
• 01/26/17 Suppe and Wu Comment in Science on Reconstructing Earth's Early Geography
• 01/17/17 Congratulations to EAS Grads Starting Jobs or Internships
• 2016
• 12/16/16 The Air We Breathe: Forecasting Air Quality
• 12/15/16 Geophysics and Seismology Programs Ranked No. 1 in U.S.
• 11/28/16 Algorithm Described in EAS Master's Thesis Awarded U.S. Patent
• 11/21/16 Samples From Beyond Our World: Researcher Travels to Antarctica for Meteorite Expedition
• 11/17/16 Three Students Recognized for Outstanding Research Posters at Annual Sheriff Lecture
• 11/16/16 Liu Awarded Graduate Student Research Grant
• 11/04/16 Two Geophysics Ph.D. Students Place Third in SEG Challenge Bowl World Finals
• 10/24/16 UH's Arthur Weglein Receives SEG's Highest Honor – Maurice Ewing Medal
• 10/04/16 Suppe, National Academy of Sciences Member, Joins the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department
• 10/03/16 EAS Welcomes Structural Geologist John Suppe, Distinguished Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
• 09/20/16 Graduate Student Field Trip to New Mexico and Colorado
• 09/20/16 Students Win Top Poster Awards at Annual Africa Oil Exploration and Production Conference
• 09/14/16 Students Return from Landslide Fieldwork in China
• 08/31/16 New Instructional Faculty Member Heather Bedle Joins EAS
• 08/31/16 Department Welcomes New Assistant Professor, Dr. Jonny Wu
• 08/25/16 Welcome to Yuxuan Wang, Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry
• 08/19/16 Sager Publishes Research Review in Earth-Science Reviews
• 08/19/16 Five EAS Ph.D. Students Selected for Future Faculty Fellows Program
• 07/22/16 EAS Department Receives Gold Corporate Star Award
• 07/18/16 Three Renowned Energy Researchers Join University of Houston
• 07/12/16 Sinking Ground: Khan, Geology Professor, Studies Subsidence in Houston
• 07/11/16 EAS Students Travel to China for Landslide Research
• 06/30/16 Van Nieuwenhuise Featured on 22 Texas Public Radio Stations
• 06/28/16 EAS Welcomes Postdoctoral Researcher Alberto Carballo
• 06/21/16 UH EAS Grad Students Win Awards at AAPG Student Poster Competition
• 06/09/16 Two UH Recent Ph.D. Graduates Receive SEG Honors and Awards
• 06/08/16 EAS Students Benefit from ExxonMobil Wilderness First Aid/Field Safety Course
• 05/31/16 Graduate Students Attend Sequence Stratigraphy Field Seminar
• 05/27/16 UH Physicist Honored for Groundbreaking Approach to Seismology
• 05/23/16 Shuhab Khan featured on 22 Texas Public Radio Stations
• 05/17/16 31st Annual EAS Student Research/Alumni and Industry Open House
• 05/16/16 Former UH EAS Field Camp Students Awarded USGS Internships for Summer 2016
• 05/16/16 UH Undergraduate Geology Major Participates in ExxonMobil Guadalupe Field School
• 05/11/16 Earth and Atmospherics Sciences' Matthew Erickson Headed to South Korea for Air Quality Study
• 05/06/16 Four Ph.D. Students Receive Research Grants
• 04/26/16 UH Team Wins GSH Regional Challenge Bowl
• 04/22/16 UH Team Places Second in 2016 Gulf Section of AAPG's Imperial Barrel Award Competition
• 02/19/16 EAS Welcomes New Postdoctoral Researcher Gustavo Cuchiara
• 02/16/16 Saylor Awarded $380,000 NSF Grant to Study Evolution of Topography in the Peruvian Andes
• 02/16/16 Research Offers New Evidence about the Gulf of Mexico's Past
• 02/02/16 Theme Issue of Journal G3 Covers Lithospheric Evolution of Cenozoic Ultrahigh-Pressure Terranes
• 01/15/16 First EAS Graduate Student in Norway for UH-University of Stavanger Exchange Program in Petroleum Engineering and Geology
• 01/13/16 Faculty and Grad Students Contribute to AAPG Memoir on Colombian Petroleum Geology and Geophysics
• 01/06/16 Wellner Selected as a 2016 AAPG Distinguished Lecturer
• 2015
• 12/18/15 Geophysics Ph.D. Student Elita de Abreu: UH Energy Ambassador
• 12/15/15 Two UH Researcher's Presentations Ranked in Top 31 of 1,000 Papers at SEG
• 12/08/15 Three Students Recognized for Outstanding Research Posters at Annual Sheriff Lecture
• 12/04/15 UH Researchers Return from World's Largest Volcano with New Data
• 11/20/15 Saylor Brings Earth Science Outreach to Area Students
• 11/17/15 Ph.D. Student Lei Liu Addresses Houston-Area Atmospheric Scientists
• 11/16/15 Tamu Massif Research Cruise Featured in UH News Digest
• 11/02/15 Three EAS Grad Student Teams Participate in EVOLVE Program
• 11/02/15 New Evidence that Antarctic Ice Sheet was Very Vulnerable to Warm Climate in the Past: Ice-Free Deserts near South Pole during Pliocene
• 10/22/15 EAS Welcomes Daniel Hauptvogel
• 10/22/15 Geosociety Student Organization Renovates John C. Butler Memorial Planter
• 10/20/15 Geophysics Ph.D. Student Kirstie Haynie Awarded Best Poster at GeoPRISMS Meeting
• 09/30/15 Two EAS Ph.D. Students Receive Student Poster Awards at GCAGS Conference
• 09/29/15 Geology Ph.D. Candidate Wins Second Place at AAPG/SEG Student EXPO Poster Competition
• 09/22/15 Bon Voyage: Professor and Students Set Sail to World's Largest Single Volcano
• 09/22/15 EAS Unconventional Resource Research Highlighted as Top Program in Canadian SEG Journal
• 09/21/15 UH Awarded $246K NSF Grant For U.S.-China Collaboration On Landslides
• 09/15/15 Dr. Wendy Nelson Moves to Towson University
• 09/14/15 EAS Ph.D. Student Selected for Houston Geological Society Outstanding Student Award
• 09/08/15 Margarete Jadamec Recognized as Outstanding Reviewer by Earth and Planetary Science Letters
• 09/03/15 Ph.D. Student Receives NASA Fellowship to Study Early Solar System Materials
• 08/28/15 Sylvia Marshall Retires as EAS Graduate Student Academic Advisor II after 28 Years of Service
• 08/25/15 Joel Saylor Recognized as Outstanding Reviewer by Two Geoscience Journals
• 08/24/15 EAS Research Professor Departs UH to Assume Research Faculty Position in Denmark
• 08/18/15 Faculty Member William Sager Co-Edits Volume on Oceanic Plateaus
• 08/13/15 Welcome to Postdoctoral Researchers Wonbae Jeon and Anirban Roy
• 08/06/15 EAS Student Selected for Future Faculty Fellowship
• 08/04/15 Geology Ph.D. Student Wins Second Place in Poster Competition at AAPG Annual Convention
• 08/03/15 EAS Welcomes Two New Postdoctoral Researchers
• 08/03/15 EAS Postdoc Departs UH to Assume Tenure-Track Position
• 07/07/15 Barnett Shale Research Raises New Concerns about Methane Emissions
• 07/07/15 Support Awarded by the Geological Society of America
• 06/29/15 QPS Spotlights UH Research into Undersea Gas Emissions
• 06/11/15 Professional Geosciences Master's Program Reaches Milestone
• 06/10/15 Three Ph.D. Students Receive Research Grants
• 06/01/15 Two Ph.D. Students Grants to Support Research
• 05/28/15 Atmospheric Sciences Ph.D. Receives Prestigious Postdoctoral Research Position
• 05/14/15 UH Researchers: Climate Change Helped to Reduce Ozone Levels
• 05/14/15 AMS Student Chapter Goes Green!
• 05/07/15 Zheng Wins Karcher Award from Society of Exploration Geophysicists
• 05/05/15 EAS Undergrads Head to Grad Schools in Fall 2015
• 05/04/15 Winners Announced: Best Student Talks and Posters at Student Research Day and Industry Open House
• 04/22/15 Research Finds Closure of Panama Seaway Occurred 10 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
• 04/22/15 UH Competes in 2015 Gulf Coast Section of the AAPG Imperial Barrel Award Competition
• 04/17/15 Geology Major Selected to Glamour Magazine's Top 10 College Women of 2015
• 04/17/15 Geophysics Professor Rob Stewart Profiled in University of Houston News
• 04/10/15 Students Monitor the Aurora Borealis
• 04/09/15 Geology Major Selected as NSM Ambassador
• 04/07/15 AMS Student Chapter Visits National Weather Service
• 03/30/15 Crupa Awarded HGS Undergraduate Fellowship
• 03/25/15 UH Undergraduate Geology Major Participates in ExxonMobil Guadalupe Field School
• 02/27/15 Research by Master's Graduate Recognized with Cover Photo of Sedimentology
• 02/10/15 CAMS and AEG Student Groups Visit KPRC 2 Broadcasting Station
• 02/10/15 Congratulations to 32 M.S. and Ph.D. Grads Starting Careers
• 02/04/15 UH Gets Homeland Security Funding to Fight Bioterror
• 01/27/15 McLeod Recognized as a 2014 Exceptional Reviewer by Geological Society of America
• 01/20/15 GeoSociety Winter Trip to New Mexico
• 01/16/15 Erickson Wins Outstanding Poster Award at Undergraduate Research Day
• 2014
• 12/18/14 Aziz' Project at Mueschke Cemetery Subject of GeoSpace Blog
• 12/15/14 Snow Elected President-Elect of UH Faculty Senate
• 11/21/14 In Memoriam: Robert E. Sheriff, 1922-2014
• 11/19/14 Winners Announced for Poster Session at Annual Sheriff Lecture
• 11/18/14 Derek Rice of Rice Energy Named as Distinguished EAS Alumnus
• 11/18/14 Statoil's Dore Presented at Annual Sheriff Lecture
• 10/29/14 Field Camp Endowment Brings Classroom Learning to Life
• 10/27/14 Robert E. Sheriff Profiled in Geo ExPro
• 10/15/14 Students win Top Poster Awards at Annual Africa Oil Exploration and Production Conference
• 10/07/14 Two EAS Graduate Students Receive 2014 AAPG Student Research Grants
• 10/03/14 Graduate Student Field Trip to New Mexico and Colorado
• 10/03/14 Saylor Part of Team Evaluating Changes in Surface Elevation of the Tibetan Plateau
• 09/24/14 SEG Honorary North America Lecture Comes to University of Houston
• 09/15/14 SEG Wavelets Meet and Greet: The Tradition Continues
• 09/09/14 SEG Wavelets TED Talk Hits the Ground Running
• 08/25/14 Geophysics Student Wins SEG/Chevron Student Leadership Grant
• 08/05/14 Students Attend Short Course on Geology Modules in Petrel
• 07/21/14 AGL Produces Summary Video
• 07/11/14 Ph.D. Student's Outreach Program Brings Geosciences to Elementary Students
• 07/08/14 Geology Ph.D. Student/Reserve Soldier Excels in U.S. Army Reserve Best Warrior Competition
• 06/11/14 In PNAS: Burke and Colleagues
• 05/08/14 Geology Student, Warriors of the Wild Founder Named Udall Scholar
• 05/06/14 Stiff Competition Does Not Deter UH Undergrads from Entering the Big League at AAPG
• 04/29/14 UH Teaching Excellence Awards Recognize Three EAS Professors
• 04/10/14 UH Students Excel at Best Student Poster Presentations at AAPG Conference in Houston
• 04/01/14 Wavelets - Probing the Past: Subsurface Imaging to Identify Burials at the Mueschke Cemetery, Houston
• 03/25/14 UH Team Places Third in Field of 13 Universities in AAPG Gulf Coast Imperial Barrel Award Regional Competition
• 03/20/14 EAS Geophysics Grad Students Excel at SEG Gulf Coast Regional Challenge Bowl
• 03/19/14 Searching for Blind Faults: Subsurface Imaging in Haiti
• 03/10/14 What Lies Beneath: UH's La Marque Geophysical Observatory
• 03/10/14 EAS Student Group Organizes Spring Geology Field Trip
• 02/19/14 Geophysics Field School: Earthly Interactions
• 02/17/14 EAS Students Excel at Regional Poster Competition
• 01/29/14 Fred Schroeder of Noble Energy Continues Short Course on Petroleum Prospect Development
• 01/21/14 New Imaging Technology Deployed to Map Well-Exposed Ophiolite in Oman
• 01/21/14 Murphy Leads Team Discovering New Himalayan Active Fault System
• 01/02/14 Department Represented by 57 Presentations at Fall American Geophysical Union
• 2013
• 12/17/13 UH EAS Chairman Publishes Textbook on Seismic Data Processing
• 12/10/13 Earth's Largest Single Volcano Ranks 11th in Discover Magazine's Top 100 List for 2013
• 12/03/13 Expedition Yields Unexpected Clues to Ocean Mysteries
• 11/19/13 Murphy Receives Top Honors from UCLA and GSA
• 11/14/13 College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics Opens New Labs
• 11/06/13 Student Groups Sponsor Geophysical Outreach at Earth Science Week Energy Festival
• 11/04/13 Professor Kevin Burke Chosen to Receive 2014 Arthur Holmes Medal
• 09/30/13 EAS Faculty and Students Make an Impact at SEG
• 09/18/13 Month-Long Study Targets Improved Air Quality Forecasting
• 09/18/13 Wang Receives NSF Grant to Develop GPS and LIDAR Education at UH
• 09/05/13 Scientists Confirm Existence of Largest Single Volcano on Earth
• 09/04/13 Largest Enrollment of Geology and Geophysics Majors in History of Department
• 08/27/13 Cassidy Completes Two-Year Term as President-Elect/President of Houston Geological Society
• 08/05/13 EAS Exchange Students Explore Arctic Geology of Svalbard, Norway
• 08/05/13 Khan Receives Grant to Study Pakistan's Chaman Fault
• 07/24/13 Welcome to Qi Fu
• 07/01/13 Stewart Selected for NSM's Excellence in Teaching Awards
• 06/28/13 Geology Master's Student Wins Outstanding Student Paper Award at AGU Meeting
• 06/24/13 'Caldas Tear' Resolves Puzzling Seismic Activity Beneath Colombia
• 06/04/13 UH Students Recognized for Best Student Poster Presentations at AAPG
• 05/30/13 Nature Interview: Wang Comments on COCONet Project
• 04/24/13 UH Team Places Third in AAPG Gulf Coast Imperial Barrel Award Regional Competition
• 04/24/13 Geology Honors Senior Wins Best Student Poster Award at GSA South-Central
• 04/17/13 'OzoneMap' App Delivering Real-Time Air Quality Reports
• 03/05/13 Fossil CSI: Prehistoric Clues to Oil, Environment Revealed
• 03/05/13 UH Geoscientist Recognized by AAPG for Spreading Information after 2010 Oil Spill
• 02/13/13 NSF Grant Supports Measurement of 'Heartbeat' of the Ground Underlying Houston
• 02/11/13 Student Opportunity: Participate on the UH Team Proposing to NASA's Undergraduate Student Instrumentation Project
• 2012
• 11/29/12 UH and University of Stavanger Officials Sign Memorandum of Understanding
• 10/24/12 Jonathan Snow to Lead International Drilling Expedition
• 10/11/12 UH and Agilent Technologies Announce Project to Advance Petroleum Research
• 08/17/12 Copeland Honored with NSM Teaching Award
• 08/10/12 Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Project Team Launches Website for K-12 Outreach
• 06/11/12 UH Representatives Explore Cooperation with University of Stavanger
• 04/11/12 UH Geophysics Ph.D. Student Awarded Grant from ExxonMobil for Graduate Research
• 04/03/12 UH Team Places Third in AAPG Gulf Coast IBA Regional Competition
• 04/02/12 UH Geology Ph.D. Student Wins International Contest in Structural Geology
• 01/09/12 Evaluating the Global Energy Balance of Titan
• 2011
• 11/04/11 Observations from the Cassini Spacecraft Provide Details of Saturn's Winds
• 08/26/11 Mann Joins UH as a Professor of Geology
• 07/19/11 Study Reveals Climate History of Antarctic Peninsula