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New article, Peccaries are on important conservation tool!
Apr. 29, 2025—This article comes from Vanderbilt alumni, Michaela Peterson, who has completed her Ph.D. in the Spring 2024. Michaela has worked alongside Dr. Malu Jorge and has written several articles addressing conservation threats currently affecting the Neotropics. This study explores how deforestation and habitat fragmentation impact forest ecosystems, not only by causing species loss but also...
Rebekah Stanton awarded the National Association of Geoscience Teachers Outstanding Earth Science Teacher Award
Apr. 22, 2025—Congratulations to our very own, Rebekah Stanton, who has been selected as the recipient of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers Outstanding Earth Science Teacher (OEST) Award for the Southeastern section! Her dedication, passion, and innovative teaching methods in Earth Science have left a lasting impact on students and peers alike. The Outstanding Earth Science...
EES PhD Student Mahir Tajwar Receives People’s Choice Award
Apr. 11, 2025—Congratulations to one of our graduate students, Mahir Tajwar, for receiving the People’s Choice Award in the Student Poster Competition at the 2025 Tennessee Water Resources Symposium (TWRS), held in Montgomery Bell State Park, Tennessee! Mahir’s research poster, titled “Understanding Seasonal and Diel Carbon and Oxygen Dynamics in an Oligotrophic Freshwater Lake,” was selected...
Congrats to EES Undergraduate and Alumni- Maya, Joyce, and Bea!
Sep. 30, 2024—Congrats Maya, Joyce & Bea! The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences would like to highlight some cool achievements of recent and former EES undergrads in the past couple of months: Current EES senior Maya Maciel-Seidman (EES ’25) recently published her work with Dr. Z Tzankova (Climate Studies): “Mobilizing carbon offsetting to reduce energy cost...
EES PhD Student Mahir Tajwar, Recipient of the Gould Research Grant Award!
Jun. 25, 2024—Congratulations to one of our graduate students, Mahir Tajwar, for receiving the GSA Research Grant and being named as the Gould Research Grant Recipient! Mahir has been invited to attend the Penrose Circle & Student Awards Reception at GSA Connects 2024 in Anaheim, California to be recognized as the recipient of the Gould Research Grant....
EES PhD Student Kelly Tingle Receives NASA Astrobiology Early Career Collaboration Award
Jun. 20, 2024—Congrats Kelly! This specific grant will provide Kelly with sufficient funding to spend 5 weeks at Oxford. While at Oxford, she will be working on a research project that will test some controversial hypotheses surrounding the very earliest eukaryotes, and thus some of the earliest evidence for ‘complex’ life on this planet. The title of...