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Chloé Fandel leads students through water quality research in Driftless Region of Minnesota
23 January 2025Chloé Fandel’s research in the Driftless region was highlighted this week by the College. The field work last summer was part of a Keck Geology Consortium project and her ongoing…
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Tsunami researchers Lydia Staisch ’08 and Brett Hanley x’25 featured in Seattle Times Outside link
3 December 2024Lydia Staisch ’08, from the United States Geological Survey, is part of a research group investigating past evidence of tsunamis along the Oregon coast. She brought Brett Hanley x’25 along for her research last summer. Their work was just featured in an article in the Seattle Times.
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Rudy Molinek ’15 Receives Award from National Academies
31 October 2024Rudy Molinek ’15, PhD candidate in geoscience at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is a 2024 recipient of an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications, in the…
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Robert Tipping ’81 appointed Minnesota State Geologist and Director of Minnesota Geological Survey
17 October 2024Tipping has been appointed the new Minnesota State Geologist and Director of the Minnesota Geological Survey (MGS). He is the tenth director since the MGS started in 1872 and the…
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Chloé Fandel Awarded NSF Grant
3 October 2024Chloé Fandel, assistant professor of geology, has received a National Science Foundation Empowering Broader Academic Capacity and Education grant. Her project, “A synoptic survey of springs in the Driftless Area to…
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Structural Geology students visit the Salton Sea
6 February 2024Sarah and Jon took 25 students to the Salton Sea over mid-term break for the Structural Geology field trip. Despite the threat from two atmospheric rivers, the weather was generally…
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Kelly Hereid was featured in EOS, the weekly publication of the American Geophysical Union, in a story outlining different career paths for geoscientists. After Carleton, Kelly studied paleoclimatology at the University of Texas, Austin. She now works for Liberty Mutual on catastrophe models for natural hazards such as earthquakes, hailstorms, wildfires, and hurricanes.
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Matt Kuharic ’02 Explains To NY Times How His County Studies Consumption Patterns To Reduce Climate Impact
13 December 2022New York Times Households in denser neighborhoods close to city centers tend to be responsible for fewer planet-warming greenhouse gases, on average, than households in the rest of the country.…
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Fellowship honors Carleton Alumna Sarah Crump ’10
17 November 2022The Institute for Arctic and Alpine research at the University of Colorado announced a new graduate fellowship in honor of alumna Sarah Crump ’10. Sarah has been blazing a trail…
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Fall field trip to South Dakota
12 November 2022We were planning to head to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan this fall, but a snowstorm in the UP had us pivot to the warmest nearby field trip destination, which…
