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EES faculty partnering with other Vanderbilt researchers to explore new science education approach to build youths’ agency amid climate anxiety
Nov. 28, 2023—A three-year, nearly $1.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation supports a trans-institutional research team at Vanderbilt University investigating an innovative approach to STEM education that could help young people develop STEM identities and agency amidst climate anxiety. Children around the world experience growing levels of climate anxiety as they witness the worsening effects...
EES Student Nadia McGlynn Won First Prize on Poster
Oct. 6, 2023—Congratulations to EES Student, Nadia McGlynn, who went to the National Association of Black Geoscientists conference last week and won first prize for her poster! The award was for best poster out of both grad and undergrad posters. Her research poster focuses on Characterizing Meserve Glacier Flow Patterns Through the Provenance of Moraine Tills. Way...
Job Opening: Senior Lecturer in Climate Science
Oct. 3, 2023—Senior Lecturer in Climate Science Vanderbilt University: College of Arts and Science: Natural Sciences: Earth & Environmental Sciences Location Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Open Date Oct 02, 2023 Description The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Vanderbilt University seeks a highly motivated candidate for an instructional faculty position at the rank of Senior Lecturer...
Vanderbilt EES Professor Ralf Bennartz to Lead NASA Mission to Study Ice Clouds
May. 25, 2023—Vanderbilt has been chosen to lead a NASA satellite mission, supported by a grant of up to $37 million, aimed at better understanding Earth’s high-altitude ice clouds. Ralf Bennartz, Stevenson Chair and professor of earth and environmental sciences, will lead the mission, which will underscore Vanderbilt’s cutting-edge contributions to comprehending our planet’s climate. You can read...
EES Professor Jonathan Gilligan Awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award
Apr. 25, 2023—Professor Jonathan Gilligan has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award to conduct collaborative research at the University of Calgary in Canada for academic year 2023-2024. Professor Gilligan and his colleagues will develop participatory interactive computer models of climate change as tools for education and public engagement.
April 22, 2023 – Earth Day Celebration
Apr. 25, 2023—Please enjoy this Earth Day Video from the EES department, faculty and students. Learn what Earth Day means to us and how some of our research is related to Earth Science!
Paleontology Graduate Student, Kelly Tingle, Uncovers Lessons from Microfossils of the Grand Canyon
Apr. 10, 2023—Kelly Tingle, graduate student in Simon Darroch’s lab (Earth and Environmental Sciences), just published a new first-authored article outlining some exciting discoveries related to microfossils found in the Grand Canyon. Vase-shaped microfossils were amoebae that exist worldwide and can provide some insight into early life on Earth. The new work, “Organic preservation of vase-shaped microfossils...
Kat Turk Awarded a Fulbright Study/Research Award & a DAAD Research Grant
Apr. 7, 2023—Congratulations to EES Ph.D. Candidate Kat Turk for receiving a 2023-2024 Fulbright Study/Research Award to Germany and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) research grant. The Fulbright program aims to strengthen scientific, academic and cultural relations between Germany and the United States and to provide grantees with access to Germany’s excellent higher education system, outstanding infrastructure,...
EES Graduate Student Christopher Tasich is a CSDMS 2023 Student Modeler Award Runner-Up
Feb. 27, 2023—And the CSDMS 2023 Student Modeler Award runner-up is…..Chris Tasich, Vanderbilt University, for his submission “A simple model of a tidal platform”. Congratulations Chris!!
Vanderbilt-led Group Discovers Divergent Function in Convergent Evolution of Form
Feb. 27, 2023—Pectinifrons abyssalis from Mistaken Point, Newfoundland, Canada (A–C) Photographs of steep ‘U’-shaped (A), ‘S’-shaped (B), and gentle ‘U’-shaped (C) morphotypes of Pectinifrons. Scale bars: 5 cm. (D) Schematic diagrams of Pectinifrons morphotypes. The classic idiom form fits function does not always mean that everything of the...