Dr. Betsy Swanner receives NSF CAREER award

Congratulations to Dr. Betsy Swanner, associate professor in geology, who has been awarded a National Science Foundation 2020 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, one… Read More

Christina Patricola, new GEAT assistant professor, wins DOE early career award for cyclone studies

Dr. Christina Patricola, a new GEAT assistant professor starting in Fall 2020, recently won a Department of Energy Early Career Award for her research on… Read More

Gabbie Ledesma and Jazlyn Beeck win Undergraduate Presentation Awards, 2020 North-Central Section GSA Meeting

In May 2020, geology undergraduates Gabbie Ledesma (Spring 2020 graduate) and Jazlyn Beeck presented their undergraduate research at the virtual North Central meeting… Read More

Kaela Gollob presents her undergraduate research at the Iowa Groundwater Association’s “virtual” meeting

Kaela Gollob received the 2019 Iowa Groundwater Association’s (IGWA) Student Research Grant and presented results from her research project, entitled “Hydrogeology and Geochemistry of an… Read More

Glaciologists’ experiments lead to slip law for better forecasts of glacier speed, sea-level rise

A paper published online today by the journal Science describes the new slip law and the experiments and data that motivate it. Authors are Lucas… Read More

Benjamin Johnson of Iowa State University woks at an outcrop in remote Western Australia where geologists are studying 3.2-billion-year-old ocean crust.
Earth may have been a “water world” with submerged continents 3.2 billion years ago

Dr. Ben Johnson, assistant professor in the Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, and coauthor Dr. Boswell Wing, University of Colorado Boulder, studied 3.2-billion-year-old… Read More

Schematic diagram showing the urban heat island effect on tree phenology.
Heat trapped in urban areas tricks trees into thinking spring has arrived earlier

Lin Meng, GEAT PhD candidate, and Dr. Yuyu Zhou, Associate Professor, recently published a study on the urban heat-island effect and phenology in the… Read More

Dr. Kristie Franz receives President's Award from University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Alumni Association
Dr. Kristie Franz receives President’s Award from University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire

Dr. Kristie Franz was recognized in December with an award from the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire Alumni Association. She is shown here receiving… Read More

Melissa Piper
Undergraduate Melissa Piper’s Adventures in Meteorology

Melissa Piper, an undergraduate senior in the meteorology program, was recently hightlighted by LAS news. Melissa’s hands-on learning experiences with Iowa State have ranged from… Read More

Jerome Fast (center) stands with Dean Schmittmann (left) and Bill Gallus (right) after receiving the GEAT Distinguished Alumni Award
Dr. Jerome Fast awarded GEAT Distinguished Alumni Award

Jerome Fast (center) stands with LAS Dean Beate Schmittmann (left) and Professor Bill Gallus (right). Jerome Fast, a Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) atmospheric scientist,… Read More