Department of Earth Sciences
Earth Science News

Maintained by Dr. Paul Tomascak

For a list of Science Today lectures click here.  (Spring 2008, Wednesdays during College Hour -- 12:40 p.m. -- in Snygg Hall, rm. 102). 

Click here for the new position statement on global climate change of the American Geophysical Union, the world's largest society of Earth and planetary scientists.

Click here for information about the NASA MESSENGER probe, which had its first Mercury flyby on January 14, 2008 (flyby #2 coming in October).

Click here for news on a robot probe that will explore the world's deepest sinkhole.

Click here for world climate highlights from the International Research Institute for Climate and Society.

Click here for information on the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the rest of the outer solar system (launch scheduled for 1/17/06).

Click here for information on the return of the Stardust probe, first space mission to successfully bring comet leavings back to Earth (1/15/06).

Click here for information on the Indonesia earthquake of 5/06.

Click here for an article about lead is drinking water from the journal Environmental Sci. & Technology.

Click here for a Mount St. Helens update, courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.

Click here for an update on the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and its satellite, Titan.

Click here for details on Deep Impact, NASA's mission that crashed a space probe into comet Tempel 1

updated material: 2/15/08, 3:56 p.m.