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EPS Undergraduate Field Trip January 2023

February 1, 2023
Over winter recess, the EPS department partnered with SEA Education Association and embarked on a week-long undergraduate field trip to the US Virgin Islands on board the SSV Corwith Cramer, a 134-foot steel brigantine built as a marine research ship. The students learned how to operate a sailing vessel in the open water, deployed plankton net tows for phytoplankton collection, and even got to drop anchor and swim in the Caribbean Sea! Read more about EPS Undergraduate Field Trip January 2023

Prof. Roger Fu and Grad Student Sarah Steele featured in Science Magazine

January 3, 2023
Once upon a time, scientists believe, Mars was far from today’s cold, inhospitable desert. Rivers carved canyons, lakes filled craters, and a magnetic field may have fended off space radiation, keeping it from eating away the atmospheric moisture. As the martian interior cooled, leading theories hold, its magnetic field died out, leaving the atmosphere undefended and ending this warm and wet period, when the planet might have hosted life. But researchers can’t agree on when that happened. Read the full article here: ... Read more about Prof. Roger Fu and Grad Student Sarah Steele featured in Science Magazine

Prof. Roger Fu and Grad Student Alec Brenner featured in Harvard Gazette

November 1, 2022
New research analyzing pieces of the most ancient rocks on the planet adds some of the sharpest evidence yet that Earth’s crust was pushing and pulling in a manner similar to modern plate tectonics at least 3.25 billion years ago. The study also provides the earliest proof of when the planet’s magnetic north and south poles swapped places.  Read more about Prof. Roger Fu's and Alec Brenner's worok here: Harvard researchers provide stronger... Read more about Prof. Roger Fu and Grad Student Alec Brenner featured in Harvard Gazette

Harvard Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning Features Prof. Kaighin McColl

November 1, 2022
McColl’s General Education course aims to reach a non-technical audience interested in learning more about Earth’s water cycle. His collaboration with the Harvard Art Museums engages students, provides opportunities to apply their learning beyond the science classroom setting, and encourages them to analyze the enduring impact of water on human society.  You can read more here: Collaboration with the Harvard Art Museums | Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning

Harvard Crimson Article Featuring Professor Peter Huybers and Postdoc Jonathan Proctor

October 12, 2022

A new research study by Harvard faculty is shedding light on the significant influence of water supply on global crop yields and its connection to climate change.

The team — led by Harvard Earth and Planetary Sciences professor Peter Huybers — included Harvard Center for the Environment postdoctoral fellow Jonathan Proctor, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute postdoctoral fellow Duo Chan, and UC Irvine professor Angela Rigden.

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Faculty Job Advertisement in Earth’s Physical Processes: surface, crust, and mantle - Accepting Applications

September 27, 2022

The Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences (EPS) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in physical processes that influence the solid Earth.  Earth’s physical processes are broadly defined and include seismology, volcanism, geomorphology, hydrology, and anthropogenic influences on land surfaces.  Possible approaches include field, laboratory, computational, and theoretical studies.  We seek to attract an individual who will establish an innovative...

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EPS 120/220 Field Trip to the Connecticut River Valley

September 20, 2022
This weekend, EPS 120/220 Introduction to Planetary Sciences students got hands-on experience with ~200 million year old flood basalts and sedimentary sequences in the Connecticut River Valley. Students visited outcrops of the Holyoke and Talcott Basalts as well as the sedimentary Shuttle Mountain and East Berlin Formations on their excursion.