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GeoGrad Reunion - Hosted at Princeton University by the Department of Geosciences and the Graduate School. Open to all graduate alumni/ae.
Jon Kirby is visiting Princeton Geosciences for 7 weeks to work with Dr. Frederik Simons on spectral analysis methods in geophysics. Their work will address certain misapplications of such techniques in the recent literature.
A team of researchers including members of the Princeton Geosciences Department have recently achieved record high pressures in laboratory compression experiments. In the recent experiments, diamond was compressed to 50 million bars – a pressure that exceeds that at the center of Saturn!
The 2012 EAG Science Innovation Award has been announced in honor of Professor Daniel Sigman for his work in Biogeochemistry. The award is given to scientists who have currently made a significant and visionary breakthrough in geochemistry. This award is given in honor of Heinz Lowenstam, a pioneer in biomineralization, and one of the first biogeochemists.
A world class radiometric geochronology laboratory has now opened in Guyot Hall, with facilities equipped to date Earth’s oldest rocks. Assistant Professor Blair Schoene proposed the new laboratory when he joined the faculty in June 2009, and has since overseen its design and preparation.
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The End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction and the Chicxulub Impact in Texas Abstract
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One of the liveliest, contentious, and long-running scientific debates began over three decades ago with the discovery of an iridium anomaly in a thin clay layer at Gubbio, Italy, that led to the hypothesis that a large impact caused the e
A rare and exotic mineral, so unusual that it was thought impossible to exist, came to Earth on a meteorite, according to an international team of researchers led by Princeton University scientists. The discovery provides evidence for the extraterrestrial origins of the world's only known sample of a naturally occurring quasicrystal.
This past Thursday, December 8, 2011, local middle school students from the Community House After School Academy (CHASA) came to Guyot Hall to learn a bit about Earth science.
Over the weekend, research fellow Claudie Beaulieu (AOS), was interviewed on Canada's national public broadcaster Radio-Canada “Les années lumières” weekly scientific radio show.