Three Earn DAAD Awards for Study in Germany
Three STEM major students have received DAAD internship scholarships to do research this summer in Germany.
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Geological, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
American Rock Salt Lecture on People, Erosion, and Chemistry
Amanda Schmidt, Ph.D., will deliver this year’s American Rock Salt Lecture in Geology on Thursday, March 24 at 7:30 p.m. in Newton Hall room 214. The lecture will also be live-streamed to those who register in advance.
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New Microscope Provides Research Opportunities for Students
SUNY Geneseo has received an award of $210,132 from the National Science Foundation’s Major Research Instrumentation program for the chemistry department to purchase a three-dimensional Raman imaging system.
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Six Students Win Gilman International Scholarships
An institutional record number of six SUNY Geneseo students have so far won Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships in the 2021–22 national competition.
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American Rock Salt Lecture Features the Galapagos Islands
This year’s American Rock Salt Lecture will feature a presentation by Karen Harpp, a Colgate University professor who researches geology of the Galapagos Islands.
The lecture, “Short scientific stories from the Galapagos Islands,” is April 15 at 6:30 p.m., and offered over Zoom to the Geneseo community and public
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Geology Students’ Work Impacts NASA Mars Missions
Recent work by SUNY Geneseo geology majors Andrew Schulyler ’20, from Lyons, NY, and Margaret Deahn ’21, from Clarence Center, NY, will impact current and upcoming NASA Mars missions.
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Nick Warner, Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences, Wins NASA Group Award
Geological, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences News Assistant professor of geological sciences Nicholas Warner, along with several of his students, has won the 2020 NASA Honor Group Achievement Award for their role in helping to place instruments on a planetary surface robotically, the first time this has been done in the history of planetary exploration. The
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Remote Teaching Spurs Innovation for Geologists
Geological sciences faculty introduced hands-on innovations for remote learning.
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Geneseo Geologist Helps Discover Marsquakes
The InSight mission to Mars has completed its first Earth year of observations. The results were published as a set of six papers in Nature journals. The papers show that Mars is seismically active and reveal information about its complex atmosphere, magnetic field and geology. SUNY Geneseo Assistant Professor Nicholas Warner is a co-author on two of the papers that detail the discovery of quakes on Mars—marsquakes—and describe the alien landscape at the landing site.
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American Rock Salt Lecture Features Paleontologist’s Talk on the Origin of Birds
Paleontologist Matthew Lamanna, Ph.D., the principal dinosaur researcher at Carnegie Museum of Natural History, will deliver the sixteenth annual American Rock Salt Lecture in Geology on Thursday, April 25 at 7:30 p.m. in Newton Hall Room 202. Lamanna’s talk, “The Origin of Modern Birds: New Cretaceous Fossil Discoveries from China and Antarctica,” is free and open to the public.
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