Eloise Andry Eruptive History of Strawberry Crater, San Francisco Volcanic Field Paul de Konkoly Thege Evaluating the Strength of Deglacial Bering Sea Circulation with Radiocarbon Johanna Eidmann A Paleoclimate Reconstruction of Lake Linne, Svalbard, Norway Kalle… Continue reading »
Dr. Alex Apotsos will be giving a talk on “Coastal Dynamics: Setting Up the Surfzone” on Thursday, September 19, 2013 at 4:15 pm in Clark Hall, Room 204. Refreshments at 4:00 pm, Geosciences Common Room. Continue reading »
Dr. Maureen Raymo from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory will be speaking twice on Thursday, September 26. Refreshments at 4:00 pm in the Geosciences Common Room. The first talk begins at 4:15 pm, Room 204, Clark Hall, and she will be speaking on “Orbital Forcing of Climate Over the Last 3 Myr:… Continue reading »
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By Scott Stafford, Berkshire Eagle Staff February 10, 2013 WILLIAMSTOWN — Phoebe Cohen is a detective, of sorts. She’s examining clues from the scene of a series of attacks by predators. Problem is, the clues are getting old — more than 750 million years old.Cohen, 32, an assistant professor… Continue reading »
Dr. David Jones from Amherst College will be here Thursday Feb. 21 to give a talk on “Glaciation, Extinction, and Microbes: Sulfur Isotopes from the Ordovian-Silurian Boundary.” The Lecture begins at 4:15 pm in Clark Hall, Room 204. Refreshments available at 4:00 pm in the Geosciences Common Room. All are welcome!… Continue reading »
A 750-million-year-old fossil discovered by geoscientist Phoebe Cohen may hold clues to how life has changed the earth—and vice versa. Following up on work done by scientists in the 1970s, Cohen and a fellow Harvard University graduate school student traveled to the Yukon in 2007 to study rock formations and… Continue reading »
Boulder Thoughts: Decoding the World through Geoscience Rónadh Cox, Chair of Geosciences & the Maritime Studies Program, tells you everything you ever wanted to know about decoding the world through geoscience. This correspondent is a fan of the pun that is ‘boulder.’ That’s the power of Williams Thinking… Continue reading »
Recently, many members of the Geosciences Faculty took a field trip to the Stetson-Sawyer construction site to do what they love – examine rocks. In particular, they were interested in the ledge that has been the subject of great attention and the source of a tremendous amount of noise both… Continue reading »
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