Archived News

This page is an archive of department news headlines.

• • Geoscience Undergraduate Student, Victoria Castle, named URECA Researcher of the Month
  • NASA Early Career Scientist Spotlight featuring  David Burtt '22 PhD
  • Congratulations to Nandita Kumari who has been awarded an Amelia Earhart Fellowship. 
  • 2023 URECA Celebration of Undergraduate Research Mentored by Geoscience Faculty and Postdoc.
  • Professor Weisen Shen is awarded NSF CAREER Award to  investigate the subsurface structure near the South Pole.
  • Professor Tim Glotch's research finding opens door to new geology research.
  • Congratulations to the Class of 2023!
  • URECA's annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creativity features Four  Students Mentored by Geoscience Faculty and Postdoc.
  • Professor Lars Ehm mentors one of the winners of Long Island Science and Engineering Fair competition
  • 2022 SBU Postdoc Spotlight features three Postdocs from the Department of Geosciences.
  • Graduate Student, Nandita Kumari, Contributes Research to NASA Artemis Mission.
  • Professor William Holt leading collaborative research project that may alter how scientists uncover Earth's history as an evolving planet.
  • "Moon Tree" Planted on Arbor Day
  • Department ranked in the top 200 for Geology and Geophysics by QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022!
  • Congratulations to the Class of 2022!
  • Professor Marine Frouin is helping a team of scientists rewrite the timeline of modern humans in Europe
  • Professors William Holt and Troy Rasbury mentor Regeneron Science Competition Finalist
  • Professor Marine Frouin's new Luminescence Dating Research Laboratory shines light on the past
  • Congratulations to Professor Tim Glotch who was chosen as the recipient of the NASA SSERVI Angioletta Coradini Mid-Career Award
  • Professor Weisen Shen and the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS)  are collaborating with BioBus to improve diverse student participation in the geoscience fields. 
  • Professors Scott McLennan and Joel Hurowitz talk about their experience with the Mars exploration rover Perseverance.
  • Congratulations to the Class of 2021!
  • Geoscience Undergraduate Students, Deanna Downs and Brooke Peritore, named URECA Researchers of the Month
  • Professors Scott McLennan and Joel Hurowitz speak with NBC news about their work with Mars Perseverance Rover.
  • Mars 2020 Perseverance has landed!  It will now  begin to seek signs of ancient life on Mars and collect samples of rock and regolith for possible return to Earth.
  • Professor Gregory Henkes named a Finalist for the 2021 Stony Brook Foundation Discovery Prize
  • Geoscience Professors and the Turkana Basin Institute awarded $2.7 million collaborative grant to study tectonics and climate in northern Kenya
  • Congratulations to Weisen Shen who was chosen as the recipient of AGU's Keiiti Aki Young Scientist Award.
  • Graduate Student Lajhon Campbell Discusses Recent Earthquakes in Jamaica
  • Lift Off! Mars 2020 Perseverance has launched and two of our professors are part of the team.
  • Professor Tim Glotch, along with other members of Stony Brook faculty, featured on Disney's The Big Fib
  • Congratulations to the Class of 2020!  The Geosciences Department celebrated its 2020 graduates with our first online convocation.
  • College of Arts and Sciences spotlights two of our recent graduates, Alex Kling and Kevin Hatton.
  • Geosciences Undergraduate Student, Kevin Hatton, awarded prestigious Fulbright Research Award to study in Sweden.
  • URECA's annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creativity features three Geociences Undergraduate Students
  • Geosciences Undergraduate Student, Kevin Hatton, named URECA Researcher of the Month
  • Digging for Life on Mars from a Desk 140 Million Miles Away in Oxford
  • Geology Field Camp in the Turkana Basin Institute scheduled for Summer 2020.
  • Geosciences Undergraduate Student, Alexander Kling, awarded the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship.
  • Distinguished Professor Scott McLennan Reflects on Two Decades of Mars Research
  • Stony Brook Department of Geosciences Involved in Study that Refutes Claim Regarding Oldest Evidence of Life on Earth
  • Department Researchers Team with Astrobiotic Technology to Prepare for Future Lunar Exploration 
  • Timothy Glotch named Associate Dean for Operations and Facilities in College of Arts and Sciences
  • Congratulations to Yang Gao who was awarded a Lerner-Gray Grant for Marine Research
  • Congratulations to Renee Schofield who has been awarded the Jerrold L. Stein Student Life Award for Emerging Leadership by GSO
  • Congratulations to Greg Henkes who is one of this year's recipients of the College of Arts and Sciences Godfrey Teaching Excellence Awards.
  • Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, the department has established a Laboratory for the Analysis and Dating of Sediments. 
  • Stony Brook Geosciences going Far Beyond: Newest Department of Geosciences faculty member Weisen Shen's seismological research takes him to the South Pole. 
  • Mars Rover collects exciting evidence from Gale Crater
  • Congratulations to Scott McLennan who was named Distinguished Professor