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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...
Ralf Bennartz analyzing first remote sensing data from NASA’s CubeSat TROPICS mission
Sep. 15, 2021—EES Professor Ralf Bennartz was included in a fascinating article that discusses NASA’s CubeSat TROPICS mission. Professor Bennartz is the SSEC senior scientist and principal investigator for UW–Madison’s involvement in the mission. You can find the full article here!
Job Postings
Sep. 3, 2021—Assistant Professor of the Practice in Climate Science Vanderbilt University: College of Arts and Science: Natural Sciences: Earth & Environmental Sciences Location Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Open Date Jan 12, 2024 Description The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Vanderbilt University invites applications for a climate science faculty position at the rank Assistant Professor...
Hiring: Tenure-Track Position in Climate and Earth System Modeling
Aug. 27, 2021—Tenure-Track Position in Climate and Earth System Modeling – Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University and the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences has a strong institutional commitment to recruiting and retaining an academically and culturally diverse community of faculty. Members of traditionally underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply. Vanderbilt is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action...
EES Ph.D. Candidate Kat Turk wins DAAD Foundation Respekt & Wertschätzung Scholarship
Aug. 27, 2021—Congratulations to EES Ph.D. Candidate Kat Turk for being awarded the “Respekt & Wertschätzung” Scholarship from the DAAD Foundation in Germany! The scholarship allows American physics students to conduct research in Germany. Kat will be working with the Division of Actuopalaeontology at Senckenberg am Meer in Wilhelmshaven from May-August 2022 to run experiments studying the...
Jake Schenthal ’21: Award-winning research in the Mediterranean
Jan. 5, 2021—Jake Schenthal ’21 at his field site in the Middle East Jake received the department’s Alberstadt-Reesman-Stearns Field Studies Award, enabling him to conduct research on human-environmental interactions in the Middle East. “I gained tremendous knowledge about how human societies interact with the surrounding ecosystem in both the Mediterranean and the surrounding valleys. I am immensely grateful to...
Maya Sandal ’21: Life-changing field work in the Italian Alps
Jan. 5, 2021—Maya Sandal ’21 in the Italian Alps In August 2019, Maya traveled with professor Dan Morgan to Italy’s Northern Alps. The two collected rock samples to aid in research on deglaciation in the area. Maya went hiking, worked with students and professors from the local university, and learned about glacial geology. After returning to Vanderbilt,...