About the Awards Recognizing the people who make the Jackson School exceptional. The Jackson School of Geosciences Walter Awards recognize top talent among the s ...

Dr. Rowan Martindale has developed a new educational board game about reef ecology, evolution, extinction, and resilience (Martindale et al., 2024)! The game can be modified for any time period with ...

Most geological materials are porous and the dynamics of flow, deformation, and reactions in porous media control energy and mass transport in many geological and environmental processes. The ...

Marc Hesse is a computational geoscientist interested in the dynamics of porous media in geological and environmental processes. Due to his broad training, his work bridges both the classical ...

Our team studies the connection between Earth and life through geological time; more specifically, our research elucidates the evolutionary and environmental events that have shaped ecosystems through ...

Taiyi Wang Taiyi Wang, a geophysicist who studies the mechanics of earthquakes and volcanos, joined the Department of Earth ...

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Lyman Lake in Arizona stores water from the Little Colorado River. Pictured here in 2021, the lake was 30 feet below capacity. Photo by Ted Wood/The Water Desk The Southwest United States is currently ...

A time averaged artist’s interpretation of Patagonia during the Late Cretaceous, about 66-78 million years ago. The animals pictured include non-avian dinosaurs, birds and other vertebrates that have ...

An artist’s interpretation of life and death after the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. The three hair-covered forms (left) represent species of plankton found inside the crater made by ...

You are what you eat, it turns out — even if your last meal was 150 million years ago. While the grub itself may be long gone, a record of dinosaurs’ favorite foods has been stowed away in their ...

Larger plastic fragments and other debris pulled from a sediment sample taken from along the Texas coast. Credit: Jackson School of Geosciences / Institute for Geophysics. From tiny pellets to creepy ...