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Geology Graduate Student Helps National Geographic Talk About African Rifts |
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Thirty-eight people from all across campus will be at the American Geophysical Union Conference in San Francisco in December, involved in more than forty sessions at the conference.
Tech people are presenting on a variety of topics, including paleomagnetism, water management, organic aerosols, changing global environments, remote sensing, cloud evolution, wildfires and more.
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MiTEP teacher in Jackson won a national award
See MiTEP Teacher Education Video Series |
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Wayne Pennington Named President of AGI
Wayne Pennington, chair of the geological and mining engineering and sciences department, has been named president of the American Geosciences Institute (AGI). |
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MTRI: Michigan Tech Research Institute (Ann Arbor) Research Projects Posters Presented at Michigan Tech’s Campus October 2011,
MTRI, Michigan Tech Research Institute (Ann Arbor) poster presentations were on display in the Atrium of the Dow Environmental Sciences and Engineering Building where numerous faculty and students had the chance to study them |
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Graduate student Patrick Manzoni (GMES) received the platinum corporate sponsor award for his outstanding student abstract at the 54th annual meeting of the Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists, held in Anchorage, Alaska.
Manzoni was selected as one of the three awardees based on his abstract, "Slope Stability Analysis of the Pacaya Volcano, Guatemala, Using Limit Equilibrium and Finite Element Method." A review committee of three AEG members selected Manzoni's abstract from more than 30 student abstracts. The fieldwork forming the basis of the research was conducted as part of the Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) project.
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New Youtube Video! Dedication of Michigan Tech's new Boulder Garden!
Tech celebrates Earth Day 2011 Celebrates "Rose Garden"
Keweenaw Boulder Gallery
A geological art project of research and educational value for Michigan Tech |
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Researchers Connect Volcanic Activity to Mini-Earthquakes
Assistant Professor Greg Waite (GMES) is focusing on "mini-earthquakes" within or beneath the troublesome Villarrica volcano. These earthquakes reveal details about the shape of the conduit and dynamics of the magmatic system. |
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Greg Waite is one of the three Michigan Tech Faculty to Win NSF CAREER Awards
Waite’s research focuses on the dynamics of small-scale volcanic earthquakes that result from the interactions of multiphase magmatic fluids with conduit walls. He and his students will collect data on sulfur-dioxide emissions, low-frequency sound, and ground tilt, along with seismic data to construct better models. “Ultimately this work will push waveform modeling of volcano seismic signals into wider use,” he said. |
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Jacqueline Huntoon has been reappointed Graduate Dean
After a highly favorable review of her second three-year term as dean of the Graduate School, Jacqueline Huntoon has been reappointed to another three-year term, Provost Max Seel announced. |
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Teacher Education Video Series
Michigan Tech is teaming up with k-12 teachers from the Grand Rapids area to increase earth science literacy for Michigan students at all levels. Part of Michigan Tech's involvement with MiTEP |
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2011 GMES Awards Banquet Photo Gallery |
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Volcanic Geology of Northern New Mexico
Join a 10 day field trip to see the active Rio Grande Rift, the Valles Caldera and associated geologic features of Northern New Mexico. The trip will be led by Bill Rose, who knows the area well and can explain the physical volcanology. The trip will take place from about 10 to 20 May 2011. |
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Geology of Utah’s National Parks - GE 5130
June 14–July 1, 2011
Fourteen days of field-based activities in and around the national
parks and monuments of eastern Utah – areas internationally recognized for their outstanding geology.
Teachers learn to use maps, compasses, GPS, rock and mineral identification, geomorphology, subsurface geology,
fossils, and basic engineering principles; learn how climate, sea level, and mountain building change the earth’s landscape, and how to recognize the record of change in rocks. |
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"The Great Dying"
Aleksey Smirnov's latest research reveals new clues into the mystery of the Permian's unprecedented volcanism that may be the largest volcanic eruptions ever. It is featured in Michigan Tech Research magazine. |
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Earthquake Tsunami March 11, 2011
Seismology Lab:
Houghton, Michigan |
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The Menominee Crack
On Monday morning, 04 October 2010, a large noise and shaking were observed in a small area north of the town of Menominee, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The following day, a local resident returned to the site of a fallen tree that was being removed for firewood, and observed a large crack in the ground. This feature was reported to local officials, who contacted Michigan Tech, and to the news media. Read More about it.
Menominee County Shakeup was an Earthquake, says Tech Researcher |
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Geoparks in the UP
Mar 18: Speaker: Dr Benjamin van Wyk deVries, Professor, Universite Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand, France;
Title: "Experiences with the Bohemia Geopark initiative in Europe and the European perspective of Geoparks";
U113 of Benedict,
4-5 pm, Friday, March 18
Website About Geoparks in the Upper Peninsula
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Volcano Seminars from French Partners of INVOGE (International Geological Masters in Volcanology and Geotechniques):
• Benjamin Van Wyk deVries, Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans Universite Blaise Pascal Clermont Ferrand, France
• Lucie Mathieu, McMaster Univ Hamilton Ontario
• Mar 15: Presentations by INVOGE students
• Presentations by PIRE Students |
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Seismic signals: Magma-mapping to forecast volcanic hazards
Volcanoes produce a rich variety of seismic signals
in addition to those generated during normal earthquakes.
The signals that result from movement of magma
or other volcanic fluids, or the resonance of fluid-filled
cracks, have distinct characteristics. |
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Volcano Cloud Sensing
The impacts of volcanic eruptions can extend anywhere - from the immediate flanks of
the volcano to regions thousands of kilometers downwind. This was brought starkly to
the world's attention during the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano in April 2010. |
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Wayne Pennington, chair of the Department of Geological & Mining Engineering and Sciences, is a Jefferson Science Fellow at the US Department of State.
Wayne Pennington Jefferson Science Fellow UPDATE |
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Great Lakes water: Looking at quality, quantity, and availability
In the Great Lakes region, as elsewhere, there are
competing demands for a limited supply of water,
including agricultural irrigation, public water supply,
industrial production, and cooling in the generation of
electricity. |
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Fine volcanic ash: Predicting the path of a serious hazard
Jet airplanes on Northern Pacific air routes fly over more
than a hundred potentially active volcanoes. About ten
days each year, volcanic eruptions create a fine ash—
volcanic particles with a texture like flour and diameters
smaller than 0.1 mm. |
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Great Lakes Research Center: An Investment in the State, the Nation and the World's Freshwater Resources
The new Michigan Tech Great Lakes Research Center will include aquatic laboratories, a hydraulics lab, coastal research instrumentation, boathouse facilities, offices and conference rooms, providing a home at Michigan Tech for interdisciplinary research and education related to the Great Lakes. |
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Project Agua
Creating a sustainable water
system in Nicaragua |
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Hot Topic in the Earth Sciences: The Mantle Plume Model and Siberian “Traps”
A Michigan Technological University researcher may have solved a long-standing mystery in earth science studies. |
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New Museum to Provide Better Access, Increased Visibility
The new Seaman Mineral Museum will make a world-class collection more accessible to the public and bring more people to Michigan Technological University, President Glenn D. Mroz told the crowd assembled Oct. 27 for the groundbreaking of a new museum building. More |
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Project Seeks a Better Image Inside Earth
Greg Waite, assistant professor in the geological and mining engineering and sciences department, is part of the USArray project, which seeks to characterize deep earth structure and the source of earthquakes. |
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Research Addresses Volcanic Eruptions: Guatemalan VP Seeks Michigan Tech Input
Rüdiger Escobar-Wolf, a PhD candidate in geological and mining engineering and sciences at Michigan Technological University, recently made a presentation to the National Disaster Reduction Council and Rafael Espada, the vice president of Guatemala, outlined volcanic risks and the benefits of an early warning system. Escobar-Wolf also remarked on the importance of international cooperation between Michigan Tech and Guatemalan volcanologists. |
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New Doctoral program in Geophysics
Michigan Tech now offers both Master of Science and PhD degrees in Geophysics. The new PhD program was approved by the Michigan Technological University Board of Control in July 2010. |
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Alex Guth to appear on the National Geographic Channel prime US slot on Sunday 25th July (9.00pm ET), under the new title 'Clash of the Continents'.
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Eyewitness to Disasters: Graduate Student Reports from Guatemala
Guatemala has been the scene of two consecutive disasters: the eruption of the Pacaya Volcano followed by tropical storm Agatha. Brianna Hetland, a Michigan Tech Peace Corps Master’s International student, is stationed in Guatemala; her account of the events, |
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Shiliang Wu Receives Faculty Enhancement Award
Shiliang Wu, whose research focuses on atmospheric chemistry, air quality and global environmental change, has been named a winner of the 2010 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award. Given annually by Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) in Oak Ridge, Tenn., the award recognizes junior faculty at institutions that belong to the scientific university consortium for their outstanding work in engineering and applied science; life sciences; mathematics and computer science; physical sciences; or policy, management or education. |
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Alumni Visit Videos: See interviews of Anna Colvin, Benjamin Drenth and Caroline Levenda |
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Tech geologists study Chile quake Video on WLUC TV |
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2010 GMES Awards Banquet Photo Gallery |
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Ash Cloud Wreaks Havoc with Airspace, and It Could be Worse:
Simon A. Carn, assistant professor of geological and mining engineering and sciences, who hails from the UK himself, is monitoring the cloud from the eruption via satellite, focusing on the ash and the sulfur dioxide (SO²) it contains. |
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Of Dollars and Scents: Tracking the Elusive Sandalwood Oil
Roger Turpening has made a career of searching for hidden things of great value, many of them deep underground and traded on commodities exchanges. Now he is applying his seismic imaging skills in pursuit of another kind of oil, one that grows in trees |
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Michigan Tech, Portage Health Lauded by the Peace Corps
Michigan Technological University has the largest Peace Corps Master’s International Program (PCMI) in the nation, with 55 students enrolled in seven programs. But it wasn’t just the quantity of volunteers that brought the national manager of the PCMI program to the University Tuesday, March 30. It’s also their quality. |
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Seminar
Friday, March 19 - 3:00pm - Dow 610
Dr. Benjamin Drenth, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO (2003 Michigan Tech Alum) Title: Recent Geophysical Studies of the San Luis Basin, Rio Grande Rift, Colorado and New
Mexico; Abstract and Project website |
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An Excellent Adventure
With its shadowy entrance leading into a hillside deep in the woods, the Adventure Mine brings back memories of Snow White. But a tour of this old underground mine is much more than a fairy-tale escapade. It also offers lessons in history, mining, geology, and even biology. |
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Geological/Mining Engineering & Sciences Seminars: March 16: Dr. Marta Calvache (Institute of Geology and Mines, Colombia) will present a seminar, "Volcanoes, their activity and social implications in Colombia," at 3 p.m., in DOW 641. |
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What Happened in Haiti?
“Every disaster situation is different,” says Bill Rose, professor of petrology in the geological and mining engineering and sciences department. “Haiti sits on a major strike-slip fault, where one side moves one way, and one moves another.”
“The Caribbean plate is moving eastward relative to the North American plate,” explains Wayne Pennington, professor and chair of the department. |
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Planning for the Worst: Could Anything Have Helped in Haiti?
Michigan Tech's Peace Corps Master's Program in Natural Hazards Mitigation is working to help save lives around the world. |
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Preventing the Worst
Suppose the people of Haiti had known that the earth might buckle beneath them as it did January 12. Could the outcome have been any different? Almost certainly, according to faculty and students in Michigan Tech's Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences. |
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| Ray Smith Searches for Mines in His Golden Years |
Former Michigan Tech President Ray Smith is featured in a story in Arizona's Green Valley News and Sun.
The story chronicles how Smith and three other men locate old hazardous mining sites in 10,000 square miles of south-central Arizona. They pinpoint the location, record data on the environment and wildlife, and erect safety signs.
Smith says the members of the group, called the Hazardous Abandoned Mine Finder, share a “love for the desert and the never-ending quest for minerals.”
Smith, who is 93, was president from 1965-79.
He had written a story about HAMF in the August issue of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society. |
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| Mining History Comes to Life at Commencement |
| In 1932, a distinguished Michigan mining engineer named Scott Turner (1904 BS mining) received an honorary doctorate in engineering from Michigan Tech, at that time called the Michigan College of Mining and Technology, and the Turner was given the Distinguished Alumn Award in 1966. At Michigan Tech's midyear Commencement on Dec. 12 -- 77 years later -- one of the first recipients of the University's PhD in industrial heritage and archeology will wear Turner's historic academic hood to accept his degree.
The full story, "Mining History Comes to Life at Michigan Tech Commencement" is available online. |
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NASA features Simon Carn in an article about gases from the eruption of Chaitén Volcano in Chile: "Volcanic eruptions are a sort of atmospheric chemistry experiment; they stick a large amount of gas into the atmosphere quickly,” he said. Scientists do not know with certainty what will result from such an experiment. They have learned that over time, the gases may transform into tiny droplets or particles called aerosols. Read more
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The Stan Dyl Geology Fellowship has been awarded to Elisa Piispa, a PhD student in geology, for her work on improving the proterozoic continental reconstructions based on combining characterizations of the paleomagnetism, geology, mineralogy and geochronology of mafic dike swarms in India. This fellowship will be used to support her travel to India to present her work. She is advised by Assistant Professor Aleksey Smirnov. |
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Joshua Richardson, MS student in geophysics, has been awarded the P. M. Thorton Endowed Fellowship for his work on emerging seismic structural imaging techniques involving active and passive source imaging of the upper crust. Josh has conducted seismic surveys at the Bering Glacier in Alaska and on Fuego Volcano in Guatemala. He is advised by Assistant Professor Gregory Waite. |
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Elisabet Head, PhD candidate in geology, has received the Seaman Museum Fellowship for her work on fluid inclusions in olivines erupted by Nyamuragira volcano. She is advised by Assistant Professor Simon Carn and the fluid-inclusion aspects were conducted in collaboration with Professor Paul Wallace at the University of Oregon. |
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State Authorizes Michigan Tech to Seek Construction Bids for the new Great Lakes Research Center
“As Michigan moves toward a blue-water economy, this Great Lakes Research Center will play a vital role in helping the state understand and use its freshwater resources,” said Michigan Tech President Glenn D. Mroz. “It is a strategic investment in the future, for the state and for the University.” |
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Postmark to honor Douglass Houghton, Michigan Geologist
The United States Postal Service had a bicentennial pictorial cancellation to honor Douglass Houghton at Douglass Houghton Hall on Michigan Tech’s Campus in Houghton, Michigan on Saturday, November 7, 2009. |
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Student Transforms into National Geographic Star
MTU Student photos slide show from the East Africa Field Camp |
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Gierke Serves as Interim Chair
In 2007 Dr. John Gierke was named 2007 Michigan Distinguished Professor of the Year, Presidents Council
of the State Universities Article (or as PDF) |
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New Geoscience Graduate Program Builds Global Partnerships in Education and Research |
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Mayer Receives Distinguished Service Award |
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On the Faultline
Department
Newsletter
Fall 2008 2 Mb PDF |
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Drill Here! Locating Drinking Water Under Challenging Conditions: Jill Bruning, and John Gierke go to Nicaragua for field testing
Remote Sensing for Hazard Mitigation and Resource
Protection in Pacific Latin America |
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Richard E. Honrath
1961-2009
Memorial |
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The Association for Women Geoscientists awarded the Brunton Award to Alex Guth. This award, named for a top manufacturer of high-end compasses, is a prestigious commendation for work in field mapping and data acquisition |
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Dr. William J. Gregg
1948 - 2008
Former Students Establish Scholarship in Memory of Bill Gregg
William J. Gregg Scholarship Fund |
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"Gigantic Magnetofossils" Ruled in Ancient Global-Warming Climate according paleomagnetist Aleksey Smirnov |
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2009 GMES Awards Banquet Photo Gallery |
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Up, Up and Away: Studying Volcanoes With Balloons:
Adam Durant, an adjunct geological sciences faculty member and colleagues took meteorological balloons to the Kilauea volcano |
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SME
Upper Peninsula Section
Annual Spring Meeting, 2009 |
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The Academy of
Geological and Mining
Engineering and Sciences for 2008 induction of William C. Quinlan '88 and Samuel B. Treves '51 |
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