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EES Professor Jonathan Gilligan Recipient of the Alexander Heard Distinguished Professor Award
Sep. 16, 2022—EES Professor Jonathan Gilligan was the recipient of the Alexander Heard Distinguished Professor Award in Spring of 2022. Congratulations Jonathan!
VU EES Undergraduate Joyce Sanks Wins Best Poster Award at 2022 NABG Conference
Sep. 14, 2022—Congratulations to VU EES undergraduate student Joyce Sanks for winning the award for Best Poster at the 2022 NABG Conference in Houston, Texas!
Professor Jessica Oster’s Work on Titan Cave Featured in High Country News
Sep. 2, 2022—High Country News just published a long article featuring Associate Professor in Earth & Environmental Sciences Jessica Oster and her research on Titan Cave. You can check out the article here!
Ralf Bennartz and Steve Goodbred Named Stevenson Chair Professors
Aug. 26, 2022—Congratulations to Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences professors Ralf Bennartz and Steve Goodbred on being named Stevenson Chair Professors!
Ash Gillis Named VU August 2022 Featured Postdoc
Aug. 4, 2022—Congratulations to Ash Gillis for being named the VU August 2022 Featured Postdoc! Ash is entering their second year as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow here at Vanderbilt working with a stellar interdisciplinary team on a host of projects related to the political depolarization of climate change. You can read Ash’s story here!
Dolphin ancestor’s hearing was more like hooved mammals than today’s sea creatures
Apr. 1, 2022—Vanderbilt University paleontologists, including EES Professor Simon Darroch, are looking into the evolutionary origins of the whistles and squeaks that dolphins and porpoises make — part of the rare echolocation ability that allows them to effectively navigate their dark environment. The team, one of the first in the world to examine the ability’s origins, used...
Research in Colorado Mountains Takes Students’ Environmental Immersion to New Heights
Jan. 21, 2022—Vanderbilt EES professor Dan Morgan took students on a research trip to Colorado in the Fall of 2021. Watch the video below and read the article on the Vanderbilt website here to learn more about this amazing trip!
Kat Turk Awarded President’s Prize for Talk at Palaeontological Association Conference
Dec. 23, 2021—Congratulations to EES Ph.D. Candidate Kat Turk for winning the President’s Prize for her talk at the Palaentological Association Conference. The prize is awarded for the best talk at the Annual Meeting. All student members of the Palaeontological Association, and all members of the Association who are early-career researchers within one year of the award...
Cameron de Wet wins 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award
Nov. 15, 2021—Congratulations to EES PhD Candidate Cameron de Wet for winning the 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award from the European Geosciences Union for his poster/PICO entitled: North American rainfall patterns during past warm states: A proxy network-model comparison for the Last Interglacial and the mid-Holocene (de Wet, C.; Oster, J.; Ibarra, D.;...
Vanderbilt EES Winners at 2021 GSA Conference
Oct. 25, 2021—Congratulations to EES PhD student Kat Turk and undergraduate student Andrei Olaru for winning awards at the 2021 GSA Conference in Portland, Oregon. Kat won a best oral presentation award for her project titled “”Priapulid trace fossils from the late Ediacaran of Namibia.” Andrei’s poster presentation titled “”Functional morphology of the Ediacaran organism Tribrachidiium heraldicum...