A student walks along a glacier in Greenland
Understanding Earth
11/14/17

UB Geology is poised to help society at the intersection of Earth and its population in a warming and more crowded planet.

Basaltic and intermediate volcanoes in western Argentina
Understanding Earth
11/2/18

Basaltic and intermediate volcanoes in western Argentina

 

UB Geology is poised to help society at the intersection of Earth and its population in a warming and more crowded planet.

 

Students scuba diving at coral reef
Understanding Earth
11/14/17

UB Geology is poised to help society at the intersection of Earth and its population in a warming and more crowded planet.

Chris Lowry conducting research in a river
Understanding Earth
11/14/17

UB Geology is poised to help society at the intersection of Earth and its population in a warming and more crowded planet.

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Geology in the News

Tectonic framework for the subduction zone in south central Alaska. Basemap colored by model predicted strain-rate from numerical modeling done by Margarete Jadamec's graduate student, Kirstie Haynie, as part of her PhD work at UB. Figure modified from Haynie and Jadamec (2017)
UB geologist studies Alaskan subduction zone
12/6/18
For more than 15 years, UB geologist Margarete Jadamec has studied the Alaskan subduction zone, where two huge pieces of the Earth’s rigid outer layer — the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate — are converging. In this region, the Pacific Plate is being forced under the North American Plate.
The researchers built a simple pontoon. They rode the boat into the middle of isolated lakes to collect samples of lake-bottom mud, which holds clues about the history of precipitation in a region in Greenland
UB scientists’ travel companion in Greenland?
8/31/18
In the morning, under a big Arctic sky, in a wild part of the world with no paved roads or electric lines, UB geologist Elizabeth Thomas would board a small pontoon and motor out onto a lake. Beside her, on a typical day, would be a team of three UB students: undergraduate Kayla Hollister, master’s student Megan Corcoran and PhD candidate Allison Cluett.
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