Tag: Environment Geography and Earth Sciences

Erik Gulbranson (Environment, Geography, and Earth Science) is giving an invited presentation at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. The lecture,“Physical and biogeochemical processes of iron mineralization in surface and subsurface environments,” is part of the formal collaboration between Gulbranson, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; and Vale, which is the largest iron mining…

Erik Gulbranson (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) has been appointed as an Associate Editor (2026–2028) for the journal GSA Bulletin, a high-impact scholarly journal of the Geological Society of America.

Julie Bartley (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) and students Miranda Vizoso-Marino (Geology ’27) and Katrinna Deters (Geology, Environmental Studies, and Studio Art ’26) presented their work at the Geological Society of America annual meeting in San Antonio, TX, over Fall Break. Miranda gave a poster titled “Stratigraphic interpretation of stromatolites on a mixed carbonate-clastic platform”;…

Erik Gulbranson (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) has been appointed a panelist for the Life and Environments through Time program at the National Science Foundation.

Erik Gulbranson (EGE) has been invited to present his recent research on the impact of war on soil erosion at the International Sedimentological Congress in Wellington, New Zealand.

Julie Bartley (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) presented a lecture to the Minnesota Geological Society titled “Stromatolite morphology and diversity–How did (mostly) brainless pond scum build large, complex structures?”

Tiffany Grobelski (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences & Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies) published a research article entitled “Changing the coal status quo through scalar practices: The anti-smog movement’s contributions to Polish energy transition” in the journal Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space.

Erik Gulbranson (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) was invited to serve as a panel member for the Life and Environments through Time (LET) program at the National Science Foundation (NSF). LET is one of the new programs in the Division of Earth Sciences at NSF that consolidates two or more previous programs.

Jeff La Frenierre (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) is the co-author of a paper recently published in the Annals of Glaciology, “Automated ablation stakes to constrain temperature-index melt models.”