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• Department ranked in the top 200 for Geology and Geophysics by QS World University Rankings by Subject 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 the Class of 2018!
• 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.  
• Richard Reeder named Vice President for Research and Operations Manager
• Mars Rover collects exciting evidence from Gale Crater
• Congratulations to Scott McLennan who was named Distinguished Professor

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