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- 2025
- 06/25/25 UH Geophysicist’s 1986 Paper Becomes Most-Cited Work in Field's History
- 06/24/25 UH AAPG Wildcatters Host Expert-Led Course on Hydrocarbon Migration in Petroleum Systems
- 06/18/25 Facies in the Field: Investigating Glacial, Volcanic, Coastal, and Deep-Marine Systems in Washington and Oregon
- 06/09/25 New Dean Named for College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
- 05/20/25 UH Team Wins Second Place at the Imperial Barrel Award North American Semi-Finals Competition March 20, 2025
- 04/23/25 EAS Master’s Students Host Hands-On Event for Elementary School Students
- 04/22/25 Tracking Volcanoes by the Minute: NSM Professor’s Research Published in Science
- 02/21/25 Student Research Grants Program Winners Selected for Spring 2025
- 02/05/25 University of Houston Scientist Hopes to Alter Understanding of Lake Formations
- 01/23/25 To the Ends of the Earth
- 01/23/25 Abram Riggs Receives Houston Geological Society Scholarship
- 01/08/25 Graduate Students Attend One-Day Seminar for Hydrocarbon Explorationists on Missed Opportunities and Surprise Successes
- 2024
- 12/20/24 Petex Donates MOVE Software Suite to Department
- 12/20/24 Twelve EAS Students Recognized for Research and Presentation Excellence at 2024 Sheriff Lecture
- 12/19/24 University of Houston Scientists Solving Meteorological Mysteries on Mars
- 12/18/24 Geology Ph.D. Graduate Yu-Huan Hsieh Receives Dan E. Wells Outstanding Dissertation Award
- 12/16/24 Exploring Earth’s Dynamic Forces: Long Point Fault Field Trip Brings Geoscience to Life
- 12/13/24 Petroleum Systems Modeling Short Course Organized by EAS AAPG Wildcatters and SEG Wavelets
- 12/10/24 Geology Major Iliana Solheim Featured in Provost Profiles
- 10/31/24 UH Geologists Find Significant Texas Coastal Impacts from Hurricane Beryl
- 10/31/24 Field Trip to Natural Bridge Caverns with UH Geology and Non-Geology Students
- 10/25/24 Student Research Grants Program Winners Announced for Fall 2024
- 08/16/24 New Method Developed Uses Hyperspectral Imaging to Characterize Mineral Composition in Cave Deposits
- 07/31/24 A New View of How the Ocean Melts Antarctica’s Ice Shelves
- 06/24/24 Geology Ph.D. Student Daniel Maya Represents UH and Ecuador in AAPG Leadership Summit
- 06/18/24 UH Scientists Discover Massive Energy Imbalance on Saturn
- 06/05/24 Graduate Student Field Course Examined Lithofacies in New Mexico
- 06/03/24 UH Team Wins Third Place at the Imperial Barrel Award Global Finals on May 31
- 06/03/24 University of Houston Study Shows Electric Vehicles Can Have Positive Impact on Air Quality and Public Health in Some Cities, Not All
- 06/03/24 New Book on Leadership in Applied Geoscience and the Energy Industry
- 05/20/24 EAS Master’s Student Earns Scholarship from AIPG
- 05/17/24 Hands-on Shortcourse on PaleoScan Seismic Interpretation Software Organized by EAS AAPG Wildcatters Student Group
- 05/06/24 Geoscience and Atmospheric Science Students Recognized for Excellence at 37th Annual Student Research Conference
- 04/23/24 Geophysicists Join Effort to Restore Historic Fifth Ward Cemetery
- 04/05/24 UH Welcomes Leading Scientists for a Discussion on the Threats of Rising Sea Levels on Coastal Communities
- 04/04/24 University of Houston Researchers Confirm Ozone & Particulates are Issues in San Antonio Air
- 04/03/24 Unveiling the Hidden Threat: Drought-Induced Inelastic Subsidence in Expansive Soils
- 03/29/24 UH Team Advances to Imperial Barrel Award World Finals Held in May 2024
- 03/21/24 Geophysics Ph.D. Student’s Research is a Game Changer for Oil and Gas Exploration
- 03/08/24 FIELDGeo Program Invites Undergraduates to See Rock Formations the Way Geologists Do
- 03/05/24 Spring Student Research Grants Program Winners Announced
- 02/26/24 Antarctica’s Retreating Glaciers: Study Suggests Significant Glacial Retreat in West Antarctica Began in 1940s
- 01/26/24 Atmospheric Scientist Explores New Drought Prediction Models
- 2023
- 12/20/23 Trio of EAS Professors Chosen for AAPG Distinguished Lecture Program
- 12/20/23 EAS Department Research Represented by 57 Oral and Poster Presentations at Fall American Geophysical Union
- 12/12/23 Atmospheric Sciences Tools Expand Air Quality Data Collection Possibilities
- 12/01/23 Twelve EAS Students Recognized for Research and Presentation Excellence at 2023 Sheriff Lecture
- 11/28/23 UH SEG Wavelets Student Group Introduces Geophysics to K-12 Students
- 11/20/23 UH Faculty Receive $1 Million from NSF to Fund Field Investigations and Experiences Leading to Degrees in Geoscience (FIELDGeo)
- 11/16/23 Youtong Zheng Earns Department of Energy Early Career Award to Study Correlation Between Air Pollution and Storm Strength
- 11/06/23 A Cutting-Edge Approach to Tackling Pollution in Houston and Beyond
- 10/27/23 Fall Student Research Grants Program Winners Announced
- 10/04/23 International Summer School in Brazil Gives Ali Raza Rare Research Opportunity
- 09/28/23 Finding Critical Minerals Could Get Easier with UH Geological Research Team’s Discovery
- 09/11/23 Atmospheric Scientists Reveal Much of Houston’s Ozone Exceedance Due to Air Flows from the North
- 09/06/23 Geophysics Ph.D. Student Named to Inaugural Cohort of UH-Chevron Energy Graduate Fellows
- 08/30/23 NASA Program Gives Students New Perspective on Environmental Research from the Air and Ground
- 08/24/23 Sediment Movement During Hurricane Harvey Could Negatively Impact Future Flooding, Prove Costly to Houston, UH Study Finds
- 08/17/23 EAS Geology Major Appointed as Student Councilor-at-Large for AIPG-Texas Section
- 08/15/23 Team Studies Outdoor Air Movement and the Effects on Spread of Respiratory Diseases
- 06/27/23 Geophysics Ph.D. Student Receives Student Presentation Award
- 06/26/23 Study: Wildfire Smoke Downwind Affects Health, Wealth and Mortality
- 06/15/23 University of Houston Researcher Awarded $1.2M Grant to Assess Impacts of Biomass Burning on Texas Air Quality
- 05/18/23 UH Geology Students and Professors Study Sedimentary Facies in Washington
- 05/10/23 Journey to the Smithsonian: Andrew Flynn Earns Prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 05/03/23 36th Annual EAS Student Research Conference Held On April 28
- 05/01/23 Two EAS Ph.D. Students Win Poster Awards at GeoGulf Conference
- 04/20/23 New Elsevier Volume on Deepwater Sedimentation and Exploration by EAS Researchers
- 03/29/23 Study Finds Sulfate Pollution Impacts Texas Gulf Coast Air
- 03/13/23 UH Doctoral Student Helps Create Improved AI Method for Measuring Surface Nitrogen Dioxide Levels
- 03/02/23 Spring Student Research Grants Program Winners Announced
- 03/01/23 UH Geologist Virginia Sisson Earns AAPG’s Grover E. Murray Memorial Distinguished Educator Award
- 02/17/23 EAS Student Earns Scholarship from Houston Geological Society
- 02/10/23 UH Geologist Receives CAREER Award to Explore Effects of Climate Change on River Systems
- 02/07/23 EAS and NSM Celebrate Black History Month
- 02/07/23 Ph.D. Student Claudia Bernier Receives Outstanding Student Presentation Award
- 2022
- 12/19/22 Xiaolong Wei Receives Dan E. Wells Outstanding Dissertation Award
- 12/06/22 Petroleum Experts Limited Donates MOVE Software Suite to Department
- 11/28/22 Six EAS Students Recognized for Research and Presentation Excellence at 2022 Sheriff Lecture
- 11/02/22 Ryugu Asteroid Samples Advance Knowledge of Birth of Our Solar System
- 11/01/22 Student Research Grants Program Awards Announced
- 10/31/22 Heavens on Earth: What Our Solar System Reveals About Our Home Planet
- 10/26/22 Hasan, Ph.D. Student, Wins Best Student Poster Presentation Award at HGS-PESGB Africa Conference
- 10/25/22 Combining Modelling and Multiproxy Approach to Advance Paleoclimate and Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction
- 10/11/22 Researchers Find ‘Significant Rates’ of Sinking Ground in Houston Suburbs
- 10/06/22 EAS Awarded NSF Grant for Isotope Instrumentation
- 09/26/22 New UH Mentoring Scholarship Program Aims to Fill Future Demand for STEM Jobs
- 09/16/22 Hurricanes and Pollution: Studying a Connection
- 09/14/22 Postdoctoral Fellow Receives Prestigious NSF Award for Pacific Plate Tectonics Research
- 09/13/22 Atmospheric Scientists Study Under-Researched Role of Clouds in Regulating Earth’s Temperature
- 09/12/22 Ph.D. Student Michael Comas Receives GSA Research Grant
- 09/09/22 UH Hosting Lecture by ‘Father of Environmental Justice’ Robert D. Bullard
- 08/16/22 SEG Wavelets Student Chapter Recognized as “Ridge-Level Chapter”
- 07/18/22 Geophysicists Use Machine Learning to Study Formation of Oceanic Plateaus
- 07/05/22 Tracing Pollution’s Impact on Thunderstorms in Houston
- 06/02/22 UH Geology Students and Professors Study Sedimentary Facies in West Colorado and Central Utah
- 05/17/22 Spencer Fuston Receives Dan E. Wells Outstanding Dissertation Award
- 05/16/22 Buildup of Solar Heat Likely Contributes to Mars’ Dust Storms, Researchers Find
- 05/10/22 35th Annual EAS Student Research Conference Held as Virtual Meeting April 29
- 05/09/22 Air Pollution Dropped During Pandemic Lockdowns
- 04/21/22 Graduate Student Awarded Department of Defense Scholarship, Internship and Guaranteed Employment
- 04/08/22 Three EAS Students Recognized for Best Research and Poster Presentations at Dobrin Lecture
- 04/07/22 EAS PhD, MS and BS Graduates Land Positions at a Variety of Companies
- 03/24/22 Student Research Funding Program Awards Announced
- 02/24/22 National Academy of Engineering Welcomes UH Research Professor of Geophysics Leon Thomsen
- 02/14/22 Flynn Named a Senior Member of National Academy of Inventors
- 02/01/22 Publication Elevates Voices of Indigenous Scientists
- 01/26/22 UH Researcher Collects Data from Tonga Volcanic Eruption
- 2021
- 11/15/21 Five EAS Students Recognized for Research and Presentation Excellence at 2021 Sheriff Lecture
- 10/19/21 Geology Graduate Student Receives GSA Specialized Award for Antarctic Research
- 10/15/21 Atmospheric Science Doctoral Student Awarded NASA Future Investigators Grant
- 10/11/21 Department Initiates Student Research Funding Program
- 09/27/21 Does Pollution Make Thunderstorms More Severe?
- 09/02/21 Inside NSM: Rock and Mineral Collection
- 08/12/21 Atmospheric Sciences Ph.D. Student Wraps Up Internship with NOAA
- 08/09/21 Geology Graduate Wins 2021 AAPG Jules Braunstein Memorial Award
- 07/22/21 Laura Taylor Receives UH Outstanding Senior Thesis Award
- 07/21/21 UH Research Sheds New Light on How Passing Seismic Waves Can Trigger Earthquakes
- 07/12/21 UH Geology Students and Professors Study Sedimentary Facies in Washington
- 07/07/21 Ph.D. Student Wins Third Place Poster Award at GeoGulf 2020 Conference
- 07/02/21 Three EAS Faculty to Receive Awards at Joint SEG-AAPG Meeting IMAGE 2021
- 06/24/21 Artificial Intelligence Breakthrough Gives Longer Advance Warning of Ozone Issues
- 06/23/21 Research by EAS Graduate Students Recognized in the Mining Sessions at 2020 SEG Annual Meeting
- 06/21/21 The Power of Limestone Caves to Store Information about its Environment
- 06/15/21 Subsurface Geophysics is Key to Geological Carbon Dioxide Storage
- 06/14/21 Takashita-Bynum, Ph.D. Student, Awarded Grants for Paleoenvironmental Research
- 05/24/21 Hauptvogel and Sisson Release Open Access Lab Manual on Historical Geology
- 05/19/21 34th Annual EAS Student Research Conference Held as Virtual Meeting April 30
- 04/29/21 EAS Student Honored with Provost’s Teaching Excellence Award
- 04/27/21 Two NSM Undergraduates Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
- 04/19/21 UH Team Places Second in 2021 Gulf Coast Section of AAPG Imperial Barrel Award Competition
- 04/19/21 Adjunct Faculty Leads Team to Develop Successful Hybrid Geology Field Camp During Initial COVID-19 Outbreak
- 04/13/21 Bluware Donates Use of Software to University of Houston Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
- 04/07/21 Teaching with Technology: Geology Alums Step in to Enhance Education During Pandemic
- 04/02/21 UH Students Excel at Best Student Poster Presentations at the 2020 AAPG Annual Convention & Exhibition
- 03/25/21 EAS Alum Amanda Pascali Selected for Geoscientists in the Parks Position
- 03/12/21 Julia Wellner Chosen as USSSP Ocean Discovery Lecturer
- 03/11/21 UH Geologists Discover Powerful ‘River of Rocks’ Below Caribbean
- 02/24/21 UH Geologists Search for Remains of Lost Ocean Beneath Earth’s Surface
- 02/12/21 Paul Mann Receives AAPG’s Distinguished Educator Award
- 01/20/21 Work of Wu and Fuston Named One of “10 Geological Discoveries that Rocked 2020”
- 2020
- 11/09/20 EAS Researchers’ Work Featured on Journal Cover and as Editor’s Highlight
- 11/09/20 Eight EAS Students Recognized for Research and Presentation Excellence at Sheriff Lecture
- 11/02/20 Sun Named Associate Editor for New Data Integration Section in the Journal, GEOPHYSICS
- 10/30/20 Suppe and Colleagues Receive 2020 Best Seminal Paper Award
- 10/30/20 Graduate Student Team Recognized for Best Investment Opportunity and Other Accolades in SEG EVOLVE Program
- 10/22/20 Turbulent Era Sparked Leap in Human Behavior, Adaptability 320,000 Years Ago
- 10/21/20 EAS Alumni Association Welcomes New Board and Committee Members
- 10/20/20 Lost and Found: UH Geologists ‘Resurrect’ Missing Tectonic Plate
- 10/20/20 Yingcai Zheng Named Robert and Margaret Sheriff Professor in Applied Geophysics
- 10/19/20 Five Geoscience Students Recognized for Presentations at the 21st Annual Geoscience Student Expo
- 10/08/20 Strong Employment Reported for 2020 EAS PhD and MS Graduates
- 09/30/20 First Machine Learning Workshop on Mineral Exploration Organized for 2020 SEG Annual Meeting
- 09/23/20 EAS Students Invited as Keynote Speakers for Latin American Petroleum Conference
- 09/21/20 New Data Shows How Underwater Channels Facilitate Antarctic Ice Melt
- 09/16/20 EAS Graduate Students Receive Grant for K-5 Outreach
- 08/13/20 Choi Receives Grants Totaling $500K to Improve Accuracy for Short- and Long-Term Air Quality Modeling
- 08/06/20 Geology Ph.D. Student Receives $20,000 GEM Fellowship
- 07/31/20 A New Chemical Analysis Upends Conventional Explanation for Global Cooling
- 07/27/20 Wellner Elected Geological Society of America Fellow
- 06/08/20 Arellano, PhD Student, Awarded Grant for Climate Research in Panama
- 06/03/20 PhD Student Kyle Reuber Receives SEG/AAPG Best Paper Award for the Journal Interpretation
- 05/29/20 In Memoriam: Margaret Sites Sheriff
- 05/26/20 EAS Graduate Awarded Dan E. Wells Outstanding Dissertation Award
- 05/22/20 Back from the Bottom of the World
- 05/19/20 Zheng and Co-Authors Receive Award for Best Poster Paper Presented at 2019 SEG Annual Meeting
- 05/15/20 Graduate Students Present Research at AAPG Hedberg Conference in Mexico City
- 05/11/20 UH Professor Leon Thomsen Awarded SEG’s Maurice Ewing Medal
- 04/22/20 Atmospheric Sciences Researchers Expand Carbon Aerosol Monitoring to Houston Area
- 04/16/20 Two UH EAS Students Awarded AAPG Grants-in-Aid
- 04/07/20 UH Team Places Second in 2020 Gulf Coast Section of AAPG’s Imperial Barrel Award Competition
- 03/30/20 Geophysics Student Awarded Top Overall Scholarship by HGS Undergraduate Scholarship Foundation
- 03/11/20 Petroleum Experts Limited Donates MOVE Software Suite to Department
- 03/09/20 GeoSociety Organized Annual Winter Geological Field Trip to Southern New Mexico
- 03/02/20 EAS PhD, MS, and BS Graduates and Current Students Acquire Positions with 20 Oil Exploration and Service Companies
- 02/20/20 Atmospheric Sciences Ph.D. Student Awarded NASA STEM Fellowship
- 02/10/20 In Memoriam: Dr. Robert W. Talbot
- 02/07/20 On the Atlantic: Students Experience Research Trip of a Lifetime
- 01/13/20 Geophysics Students Organize Exploration Software Bootcamp
- 2019
- 12/19/19 EAS PhD Students Present at Norwegian Consulate’s “Arctic Hour”
- 12/11/19 Kenning, PhD Student, Wins Best Student Oral Presentation at GeoGulf 19
- 12/03/19 Ph.D. Student Wins Second Place Poster Award at HGS-EAGE Latin America Conference
- 12/03/19 A Study of Saturn’s Largest Moon May Offer Insights for Earth
- 11/22/19 Ph.D. Student Wins Second Place Poster Award at GeoGulf 19 Conference
- 11/22/19 Six Students Recognized for Research and Presentation Excellence at Sheriff Lecture
- 11/18/19 Geology Ph.D. Student Awarded NASA Grant
- 11/14/19 Global Climate Change Concerns for Africa’s Lake Victoria
- 11/04/19 Dupré Receives Two Major Awards
- 10/29/19 New AI Deep Learning Model Allows Earlier, More Accurate Ozone Warnings
- 10/16/19 Two EAS Professors to Receive Awards from AAPG
- 10/15/19 Three Positions in Sedimentary Geology
- 10/15/19 GeoSociety Undergraduate Student Organization Creates Second Rock Garden
- 10/14/19 Mapping Flood Zones: Environmental Sciences Undergraduate Interns at NOAA
- 10/02/19 Suppe Elected as AGU Fellow
- 10/01/19 Petroleum Experts Limited Donates MOVE Software Suite to Department
- 09/30/19 EAS Faculty Xinding Fang Receives SEG’s J. Clarence Karcher Award
- 09/25/19 Yuxuan Wang Receives NASA Grant to Study Drought Stress on Biogenic Emissions
- 09/17/19 CAMP2Ex: Measuring Aerosols in the Philippines
- 09/17/19 Sequence Stratigraphy Field Trip to Wyoming
- 09/03/19 Resume Workshop Held for EAS Students
- 09/03/19 Four EAS Graduate Students Receive HGS Calvert Scholarships
- 08/26/19 Crack in Pacific Seafloor Caused Volcanic Chain to Go Dormant
- 08/08/19 Houston 2040: Health and Economic Impact of Reducing Vehicle Emissions
- 07/08/19 Research Yields New Clues to the Origin of Tamu Massif
- 06/26/19 Geology Alumna Receives National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
- 06/14/19 UH and University of Virginia Students Take Joint Geology Field Trip to Washington
- 06/10/19 UH Geoscience Team Wins International Petroleum Exploration Competition
- 06/07/19 EAS Ph.D. Student wins Houston Geological Society Rising Star Service Award
- 06/06/19 Amanda Pascali Receives 2019 AAPG L. Austin Weeks Undergraduate Grant
- 05/31/19 Geology Ph.D. Student Wins First Place in Student Poster Competition at AAPG Convention
- 05/31/19 UH Team Wins World Finals of AAPG Imperial Barrel Award
- 05/20/19 Environmental Sciences Major, True Furrh, Receives Udall Scholarship
- 05/01/19 EAS Student Research Conference and Industry Open House Held April 26
- 04/25/19 Geology Graduate Student Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- 04/04/19 UH Team Wins Gulf Coast Section 2019 AAPG Imperial Barrel Award Competition
- 03/22/19 Van Nieuwenhuise Selected as President-Elect of Gulf Coast Section of SEPM
- 03/18/19 EAS Department Ranked 54th in US News and World Report Survey of Geoscience Departments
- 03/11/19 On the Ice
- 03/07/19 Sternbach Authors Forbes Piece on Super Basins
- 03/06/19 UH Geologist Receives CAREER Award to Tackle Reconstruction of Panthalassa-Pacific Plates
- 02/21/19 EAS Researchers Study Effects of Biomass Burning on Air Quality
- 02/18/19 Okyay and Khan Honored with John I. Davidson President’s Award for Practical Papers
- 02/11/19 Research by EAS Master’s Student Featured in GEO ExPro
- 02/04/19 Students Win Top Poster Awards at Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Annual Meeting
- 01/25/19 Geophysics Professor and Graduate Students Return from Research Cruise
- 01/23/19 UH Scientists Reconstruct Ancient Lost Plates Under Andes Mountains
- 01/23/19 Ocean Drilling Project Seeks Clues to Future Sea Level Rise
- 01/23/19 Copeland Named Science Editor of GSA Today
- 01/08/19 Unlocking the Mystery of Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier
- 2018
- 12/21/18 Grad and Undergrad Students Attend One-day Drone Short Course
- 11/07/18 EAS Undergrad to Present Research Poster to UH Board of Regents
- 11/01/18 UH Grad Student Earns NASA Fellowship for Climate Modeling
- 10/31/18 UH EAS Alumnus Wins SEG Best Paper Award
- 10/18/18 UH and TAMU Conduct Joint Geology Field Trip to Colorado and Utah for EAS Graduate-Level Class
- 10/16/18 Hauptvogel sails for STEMSEAS
- 10/03/18 CBTH Group Holds Year-End Meeting on Annual Progress
- 10/03/18 Training the Next Generation of Environmental Experts
- 09/24/18 Students Win Top Poster Awards at Annual Africa Oil Exploration and Production Conference
- 09/24/18 Away They Go: Science Outreach on the Big Island
- 09/14/18 A Conversation with Robert Stewart, Ph.D.
- 09/12/18 Geology Graduate Student Awarded Mineralogical Society of America Grant
- 08/30/18 Geophysics Ph.D. Student Wins Second Place at 2018 Halliburton LIFE Conference
- 08/30/18 Environmental Science Undergraduate Receives Hollings Environmental Science Scholarship
- 08/27/18 EAS Undergrad Interns at Southern California Earthquake Center
- 08/27/18 Kevin Burke Eulogized by American Geophysical Union and Lunar and Planetary Institute
- 08/24/18 Summer 2018 Big Island SO2 Survey (S.O.S.)
- 08/21/18 Ph.D. Student Receives Geological Society of America Grant
- 08/15/18 Ph.D. Student Receives Geological Society of America Grant
- 08/13/18 EAS Undergrad Receives Geological Society of America Research Grant
- 08/07/18 Ph.D. Graduate Lands Position at Harvard-Smithsonian Center of Astrophysics
- 08/06/18 Improving Job Market and Oil Price Result in Increased Hiring of EAS Grads
- 08/01/18 Ph.D. Student Recognized at Japan Geoscience Union Conference
- 07/30/18 UH Researchers Report New Understanding of Deep Earthquakes
- 07/24/18 Kotsakis Starting Fellowship with NASA Goddard
- 07/23/18 How the West Was Built: A Geologic History of the Rocky Mountains
- 07/20/18 Mapping Changes in the Galveston Bay Channel After Harvey
- 06/29/18 UH Students Arrive in China for Landslide Research
- 06/28/18 Heather Bedle Leaves EAS for University of Oklahoma
- 06/22/18 NSF Grant Funds Research on Paleozoic Rivers in the Western US
- 06/22/18 Choi Receives Grant to Study East Asia’s Air Pollution Caused by Dust Storms
- 06/06/18 UH Students Depart to China for Landslide Research
- 06/01/18 Graduate Students Attend Sequence Stratigraphy Field Course
- 05/29/18 AAPG Wildcatters Student Chapter Recognized as “Outstanding Domestic Student Chapter”
- 05/25/18 Geology Ph.D. Student Wins Fourth Place in Student Poster Contest at AAPG Annual Convention
- 05/21/18 Geology Graduate Student Selected For Antarctica Research Expedition
- 05/18/18 2018 EAS Student Research Day Conference and Industrial Open House
- 05/17/18 UH EAS Wins GSA/ExxonMobil Field Camp Excellence Award
- 05/08/18 EAS Geology Major Selected for 2018 Summer Latino Heritage Internship Program
- 05/08/18 UH Students Launch Student-Run Earth Sciences Journal
- 04/30/18 What Can Past Glacier Behavior Tell Us About Future Sea Level Rise?
- 04/24/18 UH Researchers Test New Method to Measure Effect of Volcanic Eruptions
- 04/19/18 Environmental Science Major Selected for TCEQ Mickey Leland Environmental Internship Program
- 04/09/18 Professional Master’s Program: Top-Tier Education for Geoscientists
- 04/04/18 EAS Class Project Involves Edits to SEG Wiki
- 04/03/18 Atmospheric Science M.S. Student Selected for NCEP Student Internship Program
- 04/03/18 Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Graduate Program Ranking on the Rise
- 03/28/18 In Memoriam: Kevin C. A. Burke, Ph.D., UH Professor of Geology and Tectonics (1929-2018)
- 03/05/18 Grant Funds Ongoing Houston-Area Ozone Monitoring
- 02/27/18 EAS Students Attend AIPG-GeoDayZ
- 02/21/18 Four EAS Ph.D. Students Awarded AAPG Grants-in-Aid
- 02/14/18 Annual Dobrin Lecture Held February 5
- 02/14/18 NASA Grant Funds Martian Volcano Research
- 02/02/18 Ph.D. Student Wins Second Place Poster Award at 2017 Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Annual Meeting
- 01/31/18 Uncovering Secrets of the Ocean Floor
- 01/30/18 Sisson Elected Fellow of Mineralogical Society of America
- 01/12/18 EAS Geology Ph.D. Student Wins Top 10 Oral Presentation Award at 2017 AAPG Annual Convention
- 2017
- 12/22/17 EAS Ph.D. Student Wins AAPG Braunstein Memorial Award
- 12/22/17 AAPG Leadership Convenes Annual Global Leadership Conference at UH
- 12/20/17 Calculating Impact of Wildfires on Human Health
- 12/12/17 UH Professor of Geology Wins Book Award for Memoir on Colombian Petroleum Geology
- 11/30/17 EAS-HGS Annual Sheriff Lecture 2017
- 11/17/17 UH Earth Science Ranked in Global Top 50
- 11/09/17 Geology Graduate Student Attends Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology
- 10/31/17 After Harvey: Scientists Study Changes in Galveston Bay
- 10/04/17 Three Graduate Students Receive HGS Calvert Scholarships
- 10/02/17 Wellner Selected as Co-Chief Scientist of Ocean Drilling Project in Antarctica
- 09/22/17 Stewart Elected SEG President
- 09/15/17 EAS Faculty and Graduate Students Assess Harvey's Geologic and Meteorological Impacts
- 08/23/17 Students Survey San Luis Pass Flood Tidal Delta Southwest of Galveston Island
- 07/24/17 Director of NSF Beijing Office Meets EAS students in China
- 07/21/17 M-OSRP Holds Annual Technical Review
- 06/28/17 Students Travel to China for Landslide Research
- 06/12/17 UH Geochemist Searches for Answers on the Sea Floor
- 05/31/17 Graduate Students Travel to Washington State for Field Courses
- 05/30/17 Detecting Long-Term Changes in Air Pollution from Space
- 05/15/17 From Field Camp to GeoCorps America Researcher in Red Lodge, Montana
- 05/15/17 Khan Honored with NSM's Butler Teaching Award
- 05/08/17 Geology Ph.D. Student Awarded NSF Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology Scholarship
- 05/05/17 Outstanding Student Oral Presentations and Posters Chosen for 2017 EAS Student Research Day
- 04/27/17 Geoscience Student Team Wins Imperial Barrel Award World Championship
- 04/25/17 Yuxuan Wang Receives NSF Grant to Study Beijing's Air Pollution
- 04/20/17 UH Team Wins World Finals of 2017 AAPG Imperial Barrel Award Competition
- 04/20/17 EAS Geology and Geophysics Undergrads Head to Grad Schools in Fall 2017
- 04/17/17 Geology Ph.D. Student Wins First Place in Student Poster Competition at 2017 AAPG Annual Convention
- 04/17/17 UH Team Wins World Finals of 2017 AAPG Imperial Barrel Award Competition
- 04/12/17 Department Expands Hands-On Learning at the Geoscience Learning Center
- 04/10/17 EAS Researcher Returns from Meteorite Expedition to Antarctica
- 03/31/17 Two UH Ph.D. Students Awarded AAPG Grants-in-Aid
- 03/21/17 UH Team Wins Gulf Coast Section 2017 AAPG Imperial Barrel Award Competition
- 03/14/17 EAS Department Ranked 64 in U.S. by US News and World Report
- 02/28/17 Undergraduate Awarded for Student Poster Presentation at Conference on Passive Margins
- 02/27/17 EAS Grad Student Headed to Antarctica
- 02/27/17 Undergraduate Geology Student Wins Prestigious Internship at NASA's Lunar and Planetary Institute
- 02/24/17 EAS Graduate Students Continue Outreach at Local Elementary School
- 02/01/17 The Martian (Rock): Evidence of Two Billion Years of Volcanic Activity
- 02/01/17 UH Among Top U.S. Universities for Return on Investment and Upward Mobility
- 01/30/17 EAS Downtowners Alumni Gather for Lunch
- 01/26/17 Suppe and Wu Comment in Science on Reconstructing Earth's Early Geography
- 01/17/17 Congratulations to EAS Grads Starting Jobs or Internships
- 2016
- 12/16/16 The Air We Breathe: Forecasting Air Quality
- 12/15/16 Geophysics and Seismology Programs Ranked No. 1 in U.S.
- 11/28/16 Algorithm Described in EAS Master's Thesis Awarded U.S. Patent
- 11/21/16 Samples From Beyond Our World: Researcher Travels to Antarctica for Meteorite Expedition
- 11/17/16 Three Students Recognized for Outstanding Research Posters at Annual Sheriff Lecture
- 11/16/16 Liu Awarded Graduate Student Research Grant
- 11/04/16 Two Geophysics Ph.D. Students Place Third in SEG Challenge Bowl World Finals
- 10/24/16 UH's Arthur Weglein Receives SEG's Highest Honor – Maurice Ewing Medal
- 10/04/16 Suppe, National Academy of Sciences Member, Joins the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department
- 10/03/16 EAS Welcomes Structural Geologist John Suppe, Distinguished Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
- 09/20/16 Graduate Student Field Trip to New Mexico and Colorado
- 09/20/16 Students Win Top Poster Awards at Annual Africa Oil Exploration and Production Conference
- 09/14/16 Students Return from Landslide Fieldwork in China
- 08/31/16 New Instructional Faculty Member Heather Bedle Joins EAS
- 08/31/16 Department Welcomes New Assistant Professor, Dr. Jonny Wu
- 08/25/16 Welcome to Yuxuan Wang, Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry
- 08/19/16 Five EAS Ph.D. Students Selected for Future Faculty Fellows Program
- 08/19/16 Sager Publishes Research Review in Earth-Science Reviews
- 07/22/16 EAS Department Receives Gold Corporate Star Award
- 07/18/16 Three Renowned Energy Researchers Join University of Houston
- 07/12/16 Sinking Ground: Khan, Geology Professor, Studies Subsidence in Houston
- 07/11/16 EAS Students Travel to China for Landslide Research
- 06/30/16 Van Nieuwenhuise Featured on 22 Texas Public Radio Stations
- 06/28/16 EAS Welcomes Postdoctoral Researcher Alberto Carballo
- 06/21/16 UH EAS Grad Students Win Awards at AAPG Student Poster Competition
- 06/09/16 Two UH Recent Ph.D. Graduates Receive SEG Honors and Awards
- 06/08/16 EAS Students Benefit from ExxonMobil Wilderness First Aid/Field Safety Course
- 05/31/16 Graduate Students Attend Sequence Stratigraphy Field Seminar
- 05/27/16 UH Physicist Honored for Groundbreaking Approach to Seismology
- 05/23/16 Shuhab Khan featured on 22 Texas Public Radio Stations
- 05/17/16 31st Annual EAS Student Research/Alumni and Industry Open House
- 05/16/16 Former UH EAS Field Camp Students Awarded USGS Internships for Summer 2016
- 05/16/16 UH Undergraduate Geology Major Participates in ExxonMobil Guadalupe Field School
- 05/11/16 Earth and Atmospherics Sciences' Matthew Erickson Headed to South Korea for Air Quality Study
- 05/06/16 Four Ph.D. Students Receive Research Grants
- 04/26/16 UH Team Wins GSH Regional Challenge Bowl
- 04/22/16 UH Team Places Second in 2016 Gulf Section of AAPG's Imperial Barrel Award Competition
- 02/19/16 EAS Welcomes New Postdoctoral Researcher Gustavo Cuchiara
- 02/16/16 Research Offers New Evidence about the Gulf of Mexico's Past
- 02/16/16 Saylor Awarded $380,000 NSF Grant to Study Evolution of Topography in the Peruvian Andes
- 02/02/16 Theme Issue of Journal G3 Covers Lithospheric Evolution of Cenozoic Ultrahigh-Pressure Terranes
- 01/15/16 First EAS Graduate Student in Norway for UH-University of Stavanger Exchange Program in Petroleum Engineering and Geology
- 01/13/16 Faculty and Grad Students Contribute to AAPG Memoir on Colombian Petroleum Geology and Geophysics
- 01/06/16 Wellner Selected as a 2016 AAPG Distinguished Lecturer
- 2015
- 12/18/15 Geophysics Ph.D. Student Elita de Abreu: UH Energy Ambassador
- 12/15/15 Two UH Researcher's Presentations Ranked in Top 31 of 1,000 Papers at SEG
- 12/08/15 Three Students Recognized for Outstanding Research Posters at Annual Sheriff Lecture
- 12/04/15 UH Researchers Return from World's Largest Volcano with New Data
- 11/20/15 Saylor Brings Earth Science Outreach to Area Students
- 11/17/15 Ph.D. Student Lei Liu Addresses Houston-Area Atmospheric Scientists
- 11/16/15 Tamu Massif Research Cruise Featured in UH News Digest
- 11/02/15 Three EAS Grad Student Teams Participate in EVOLVE Program
- 11/02/15 New Evidence that Antarctic Ice Sheet was Very Vulnerable to Warm Climate in the Past: Ice-Free Deserts near South Pole during Pliocene
- 10/22/15 Geosociety Student Organization Renovates John C. Butler Memorial Planter
- 10/22/15 EAS Welcomes Daniel Hauptvogel
- 10/20/15 Geophysics Ph.D. Student Kirstie Haynie Awarded Best Poster at GeoPRISMS Meeting
- 09/30/15 Two EAS Ph.D. Students Receive Student Poster Awards at GCAGS Conference
- 09/29/15 Geology Ph.D. Candidate Wins Second Place at AAPG/SEG Student EXPO Poster Competition
- 09/22/15 Bon Voyage: Professor and Students Set Sail to World's Largest Single Volcano
- 09/22/15 EAS Unconventional Resource Research Highlighted as Top Program in Canadian SEG Journal
- 09/21/15 UH Awarded $246K NSF Grant For U.S.-China Collaboration On Landslides
- 09/15/15 Dr. Wendy Nelson Moves to Towson University
- 09/14/15 EAS Ph.D. Student Selected for Houston Geological Society Outstanding Student Award
- 09/08/15 Margarete Jadamec Recognized as Outstanding Reviewer by Earth and Planetary Science Letters
- 09/03/15 Ph.D. Student Receives NASA Fellowship to Study Early Solar System Materials
- 08/28/15 Sylvia Marshall Retires as EAS Graduate Student Academic Advisor II after 28 Years of Service
- 08/25/15 Joel Saylor Recognized as Outstanding Reviewer by Two Geoscience Journals
- 08/24/15 EAS Research Professor Departs UH to Assume Research Faculty Position in Denmark
- 08/18/15 Faculty Member William Sager Co-Edits Volume on Oceanic Plateaus
- 08/13/15 Welcome to Postdoctoral Researchers Wonbae Jeon and Anirban Roy
- 08/06/15 EAS Student Selected for Future Faculty Fellowship
- 08/04/15 Geology Ph.D. Student Wins Second Place in Poster Competition at AAPG Annual Convention
- 08/03/15 EAS Postdoc Departs UH to Assume Tenure-Track Position
- 08/03/15 EAS Welcomes Two New Postdoctoral Researchers
- 07/07/15 Support Awarded by the Geological Society of America
- 07/07/15 Barnett Shale Research Raises New Concerns about Methane Emissions
- 06/29/15 QPS Spotlights UH Research into Undersea Gas Emissions
- 06/11/15 Professional Geosciences Master's Program Reaches Milestone
- 06/10/15 Three Ph.D. Students Receive Research Grants
- 06/01/15 Two Ph.D. Students Grants to Support Research
- 05/28/15 Atmospheric Sciences Ph.D. Receives Prestigious Postdoctoral Research Position
- 05/14/15 UH Researchers: Climate Change Helped to Reduce Ozone Levels
- 05/14/15 AMS Student Chapter Goes Green!
- 05/07/15 Zheng Wins Karcher Award from Society of Exploration Geophysicists
- 05/05/15 EAS Undergrads Head to Grad Schools in Fall 2015
- 05/04/15 Winners Announced: Best Student Talks and Posters at Student Research Day and Industry Open House
- 04/22/15 UH Competes in 2015 Gulf Coast Section of the AAPG Imperial Barrel Award Competition
- 04/22/15 Research Finds Closure of Panama Seaway Occurred 10 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
- 04/17/15 Geophysics Professor Rob Stewart Profiled in University of Houston News
- 04/17/15 Geology Major Selected to Glamour Magazine's Top 10 College Women of 2015
- 04/10/15 Students Monitor the Aurora Borealis
- 04/09/15 Geology Major Selected as NSM Ambassador
- 04/07/15 AMS Student Chapter Visits National Weather Service
- 03/30/15 Crupa Awarded HGS Undergraduate Fellowship
- 03/25/15 UH Undergraduate Geology Major Participates in ExxonMobil Guadalupe Field School
- 02/27/15 Research by Master's Graduate Recognized with Cover Photo of Sedimentology
- 02/10/15 Congratulations to 32 M.S. and Ph.D. Grads Starting Careers
- 02/10/15 CAMS and AEG Student Groups Visit KPRC 2 Broadcasting Station
- 02/04/15 UH Gets Homeland Security Funding to Fight Bioterror
- 01/27/15 McLeod Recognized as a 2014 Exceptional Reviewer by Geological Society of America
- 01/20/15 GeoSociety Winter Trip to New Mexico
- 01/16/15 Erickson Wins Outstanding Poster Award at Undergraduate Research Day
- 2014
- 12/18/14 Aziz' Project at Mueschke Cemetery Subject of GeoSpace Blog
- 12/15/14 Snow Elected President-Elect of UH Faculty Senate
- 11/21/14 In Memoriam: Robert E. Sheriff, 1922-2014
- 11/19/14 Winners Announced for Poster Session at Annual Sheriff Lecture
- 11/18/14 Statoil's Dore Presented at Annual Sheriff Lecture
- 11/18/14 Derek Rice of Rice Energy Named as Distinguished EAS Alumnus
- 10/29/14 Field Camp Endowment Brings Classroom Learning to Life
- 10/27/14 Robert E. Sheriff Profiled in Geo ExPro
- 10/15/14 Students win Top Poster Awards at Annual Africa Oil Exploration and Production Conference
- 10/07/14 Two EAS Graduate Students Receive 2014 AAPG Student Research Grants
- 10/03/14 Saylor Part of Team Evaluating Changes in Surface Elevation of the Tibetan Plateau
- 10/03/14 Graduate Student Field Trip to New Mexico and Colorado
- 09/24/14 SEG Honorary North America Lecture Comes to University of Houston
- 09/15/14 SEG Wavelets Meet and Greet: The Tradition Continues
- 09/09/14 SEG Wavelets TED Talk Hits the Ground Running
- 08/25/14 Geophysics Student Wins SEG/Chevron Student Leadership Grant
- 08/05/14 Students Attend Short Course on Geology Modules in Petrel
- 07/21/14 AGL Produces Summary Video
- 07/11/14 Ph.D. Student's Outreach Program Brings Geosciences to Elementary Students
- 07/08/14 Geology Ph.D. Student/Reserve Soldier Excels in U.S. Army Reserve Best Warrior Competition
- 06/11/14 In PNAS: Burke and Colleagues
- 05/08/14 Geology Student, Warriors of the Wild Founder Named Udall Scholar
- 05/06/14 Stiff Competition Does Not Deter UH Undergrads from Entering the Big League at AAPG
- 04/29/14 UH Teaching Excellence Awards Recognize Three EAS Professors
- 04/10/14 UH Students Excel at Best Student Poster Presentations at AAPG Conference in Houston
- 04/01/14 Wavelets - Probing the Past: Subsurface Imaging to Identify Burials at the Mueschke Cemetery, Houston
- 03/25/14 UH Team Places Third in Field of 13 Universities in AAPG Gulf Coast Imperial Barrel Award Regional Competition
- 03/20/14 EAS Geophysics Grad Students Excel at SEG Gulf Coast Regional Challenge Bowl
- 03/19/14 Searching for Blind Faults: Subsurface Imaging in Haiti
- 03/10/14 What Lies Beneath: UH's La Marque Geophysical Observatory
- 03/10/14 EAS Student Group Organizes Spring Geology Field Trip
- 02/19/14 Geophysics Field School: Earthly Interactions
- 02/17/14 EAS Students Excel at Regional Poster Competition
- 01/29/14 Fred Schroeder of Noble Energy Continues Short Course on Petroleum Prospect Development
- 01/21/14 New Imaging Technology Deployed to Map Well-Exposed Ophiolite in Oman
- 01/21/14 Murphy Leads Team Discovering New Himalayan Active Fault System
- 01/02/14 Department Represented by 57 Presentations at Fall American Geophysical Union
- 2013
- 12/17/13 UH EAS Chairman Publishes Textbook on Seismic Data Processing
- 12/10/13 Earth's Largest Single Volcano Ranks 11th in Discover Magazine's Top 100 List for 2013
- 12/03/13 Expedition Yields Unexpected Clues to Ocean Mysteries
- 11/19/13 Murphy Receives Top Honors from UCLA and GSA
- 11/14/13 College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics Opens New Labs
- 11/06/13 Student Groups Sponsor Geophysical Outreach at Earth Science Week Energy Festival
- 11/04/13 Professor Kevin Burke Chosen to Receive 2014 Arthur Holmes Medal
- 09/30/13 EAS Faculty and Students Make an Impact at SEG
- 09/18/13 Month-Long Study Targets Improved Air Quality Forecasting
- 09/18/13 Wang Receives NSF Grant to Develop GPS and LIDAR Education at UH
- 09/05/13 Scientists Confirm Existence of Largest Single Volcano on Earth
- 09/04/13 Largest Enrollment of Geology and Geophysics Majors in History of Department
- 08/27/13 Cassidy Completes Two-Year Term as President-Elect/President of Houston Geological Society
- 08/05/13 EAS Exchange Students Explore Arctic Geology of Svalbard, Norway
- 08/05/13 Khan Receives Grant to Study Pakistan's Chaman Fault
- 07/24/13 Welcome to Qi Fu
- 07/01/13 Stewart Selected for NSM's Excellence in Teaching Awards
- 06/28/13 Geology Master's Student Wins Outstanding Student Paper Award at AGU Meeting
- 06/24/13 'Caldas Tear' Resolves Puzzling Seismic Activity Beneath Colombia
- 06/04/13 UH Students Recognized for Best Student Poster Presentations at AAPG
- 05/30/13 Nature Interview: Wang Comments on COCONet Project
- 04/24/13 UH Team Places Third in AAPG Gulf Coast Imperial Barrel Award Regional Competition
- 04/24/13 Geology Honors Senior Wins Best Student Poster Award at GSA South-Central
- 04/17/13 'OzoneMap' App Delivering Real-Time Air Quality Reports
- 03/05/13 UH Geoscientist Recognized by AAPG for Spreading Information after 2010 Oil Spill
- 03/05/13 Fossil CSI: Prehistoric Clues to Oil, Environment Revealed
- 02/13/13 NSF Grant Supports Measurement of 'Heartbeat' of the Ground Underlying Houston
- 02/11/13 Student Opportunity: Participate on the UH Team Proposing to NASA's Undergraduate Student Instrumentation Project
- 2012
- 11/29/12 UH and University of Stavanger Officials Sign Memorandum of Understanding
- 10/24/12 Jonathan Snow to Lead International Drilling Expedition
- 10/11/12 UH and Agilent Technologies Announce Project to Advance Petroleum Research
- 08/17/12 Copeland Honored with NSM Teaching Award
- 08/10/12 Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Project Team Launches Website for K-12 Outreach
- 06/11/12 UH Representatives Explore Cooperation with University of Stavanger
- 04/11/12 UH Geophysics Ph.D. Student Awarded Grant from ExxonMobil for Graduate Research
- 04/03/12 UH Team Places Third in AAPG Gulf Coast IBA Regional Competition
- 04/02/12 UH Geology Ph.D. Student Wins International Contest in Structural Geology
- 01/09/12 Evaluating the Global Energy Balance of Titan
- 2011
- 11/04/11 Observations from the Cassini Spacecraft Provide Details of Saturn's Winds
- 08/26/11 Mann Joins UH as a Professor of Geology
- 07/19/11 Study Reveals Climate History of Antarctic Peninsula