Welcome
Image: Kaili Eocrinoids. Credit: Shanan Peters.
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The Department of Geoscience in the College of Letters and Science at UW-Madison, offers a wide range of specialty areas, and is supported by advanced laboratories for study in the general areas of astrobiology, geomicrobiology, mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, geophysics, stratigraphy, sedimentology, paleobiology, paleoceanography, micropaleontology, structural geology, tectonics, hydrogeology, Quaternary geology, and economic geology. Interdisciplinary links among other colleges and departments on campus provide opportunities in geological engineering, limnology, ecology, microbiology, water resources management, soils, water chemistry, chemistry, physics, geomorphology, materials science, and anthropology.
Announcements
- Third Annual GeoBadger Alumni Reception at AGU!!
Please join us in San Francisco at the 2009 AGU Fall Meeting.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Sir Francis Drake Hotel
Cypress/Monterey Room
450 Powell Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
posted Sept. 24, 2009
- TWO RESEARCH ASSOCIATE POSITIONS AVAILABLE: STABLE ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY AT MICRON-SCALE
posted Oct. 21, 2009 - NEW RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS:
The Department of Geoscience is pleased to announce the availability of a new program of graduate research assistantships funded by BP.
Faculty in the News
- Congratulations to Prof. Nita Sahai for being elected a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America!
posted Nov. 11, 2009 - Professor Shanan Peters has been selected as the 2010 recipient of the SEPM James Lee Wilson Medal which recognizes excellence in sedimentary geology by a young scientist.
posted Sep 24, 2009 -
Emeritus Professor Gordon Medaris awarded the Goldich 2009 Medal by the Institute on Lake Superior Geology.
posted May 15, 2009 -
Congratulations to Professor Nita Sahai for winning the Romnes Faculty Fellowship Award!
posted Feb 27, 2009 -
Professor Harold Tobin is exploring the mechanics of major earthquake faults.
posted Feb 18, 2009