Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
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May 29, 2024
U-M chemist receives national Brown Investigator award
LSA professor Kerri Pratt is among the 2024 class of Brown Investigators, the first class selected through the newly formed Brown Institute for Basic Sciences at Caltech.
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February 2, 2023
Fish preserves earliest fossilized brain of backboned animal
A 319 million-year-old ray-finned fish fossil at U-M provides new information about early evolutionary history. The fossil was pulled from a coal mine in England more than a century ago.
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September 19, 2022
Two from U-M named department’s first female AGU Fellows
Two female U-M scientists are among 54 earth and space researchers named AGU Fellows by the American Geophysical Union, one of the highest in the earth and space sciences..
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November 8, 2021
LSA professor launches effort to boost ocean science worldwide
Brian Arbic has founded the Global Ocean Corps and Conveyor, which he hopes will foster sustained, long-term ocean science education and research collaborations among countries worldwide.
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October 19, 2015
Antarctic researchers study climate change where penguins roam
For a team of U-M researchers studying ancient glacial ice core samples from Antarctica, the frozen continent is a cold, quiet and fascinating place to work.
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June 12, 2015
Varying atmospheric oxygen levels shaped Earth’s climate over time
Efforts to reconstruct past climates must factor in variations in the amount of atmospheric oxygen throughout Earth’s history, U-M researchers say.
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May 13, 2015
U-M partners with Michigan Tech on historic mineral collection
In a historic partnership, U-M will share ownership of its rich mineral collection with the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum at Michigan Technological University.
