Dr. Yuyu Zhou standing in Agronomy Hall.
LAS Emerging Faculty Leader Award: Dr. Yuyu Zhou

Dr. Yuyu Zhou was recently selected as recipient of a 2019 LAS Emerging Faculty Leader Award. The awards are funded by generous donations from members… Read More

Skull (left, viewed from the underside) and lower jaw (right, in side view) of Culebratherium alemani, a 20-million-year-old fossil sea cow from Panama.
Central America’s oldest marine mammal from the Panama Canal

Drs. Jorge Velez-Juarbe, Assistant Curator of Marine Mammals, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and Aaron Wood, Director of the Iowa State Geology Field… Read More

Undergraduate Geology Student Gabrielle Ledesma Featured on ISU Homepage

Gabrielle Ledesma, an ISU junior geology major, has been featured in an article posted to Iowa State University’s homepage. The piece highlights the research that… Read More

Dr. Cinzia Cervato stands in front of a classroom of students in her Geology 100 class.
Dr. Cinzia Cervato featured in ISU News

Dr. Cinzia Cervato, Morrill Professor in the Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, was featured in an ISU News article published on August 28, 2018. Read More

GEOL 306 students standing in front of the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps.
Students experience structural geology in the Swiss Alps

Stepping outside to have class in view of the Matterhorn was a geology major’s dream come true for 20 Iowa State students this summer. Jacqueline… Read More

Chanel Vidal, geology sophomore, featured in ISU news story

Chanel Vidal, who just started her sophomore year as a geology major at Iowa State University, was recently featured in a ISU news story highlighting… Read More

Gabrielle Ledesma, working with Dr. Elizabeth Swanner, receives Dean’s High Impact Undergraduate Research Award

Gabrielle Ledesma, an undergraduate student majoring in geology, received a Dean’s High Impact Undergraduate Research Award to work with Dr. Elizabeth Swanner, assistant professor of… Read More

Dr. Alan Wanamaker and Suzanne Ankerstjerne earn LAS awards

Dr. Al Wanamaker, associate professor in geology, and Suzanne Ankerstjerne, the Stable Isotope Lab manager and lecturer in geology, both recently received awards from Iowa… Read More

Dr. William Gutowski standing in the foreground. A small pond appears in the middle ground. Trees and houses in the distant backbround.
Gutowski selected as lead author in IPCC Sixth Assessment Report

William Gutowski has been selected to be a lead author for the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment report which will be published… Read More

GEAT Seminar Spring 2018: Dr. Andrew Hutsky April 13

The GEAT department welcomes Dr. Andrew Hutsky from the University of Mount Union as our next seminar speaker. Title: Structural controls on sedimentation patterns… Read More