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Courtney Duzet - MSGC Graduate Fellow
Courtenay Duzet (MS candidate) has been awarded a Montana Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellowship! This award covers tuition, fees, and includes an $11,000 personal stipend.
Hilary Martens - Award Winning Faculty
Dr. Hilary Martens was awarded the Helen and Winston Cox Educational Excellence Award in spring 2021. The Helen and Winston Cox Educational Excellence Award was established to encourage and reward junior faculty members in the area of teaching. Criteria for evaluation include In recognition of...
Commencement 2021
Just in case you missed the virtual ceremony for the Geosciences Department this year, we recorded it. Enjoy!
Professor Marco Maneta - A Leaf
Dr. Marco Maneta, an Associate Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Montana was featured in the AGU Ecohydrology blog this month. Check out his interview.
Geoscience and Environmental Justice
Join the Spring Geosciences Seminar on Mondays at noon. This week Dr. Jose Constantin will talk about Integrating Geomorphology and Hydrology with Environmental Justice. Economically challenged communities and communities of color are disproportionately affected by environmental contamination...
Nicholas Thiros Receives DOE Funding
Geosciences graduate student Nicholas E. Thiros is one of 52 graduate students nationwide to receive funding this year from a U.S. Department of Energy program designed to enhance graduate research.
Explore Missoula
Take a self-guided geological tour of the critical field sites around Missoula that contributed to the formation of the valley that we inhabit today. Dr. Jim Sears' guide will take you to five sites and give you the geological background to understand how our valley was formed.
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Wilcox Named Geological Society of America Fellow
Andrew Wilcox, a UM professor and chair of the Department of Geosciences, recently was named a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.
This prestigious honor is awarded to geoscientists "in recognition of a sustained record of distinguished contributions to the geosciences and the Geological...
UM Geosciences Program Awarded $1.4M for Mountain Watershed Research
As mountain watersheds store and release water, the Earth’s shape changes ever so subtly. The University of Montana Department of Geosciences now can track those changes by GPS, thanks to a $1.4 million cut of a multi-institutional collaborative award from the National Science Foundation. The...
Amanda Kotila: 2020 President’s Outstanding Senior Award
The Department of Geosciences has selected Amanda Kotila for the 2020 President’s Outstanding Senior Award, an honor conferred each year to exemplary graduating seniors across campus for their academic accomplishments. Amanda was born in Washington state and raised near Kalispell, Montana. Being...
Claire Rawlings Gilder
Claire Rawlings Gilder, a geosciences graduate student at the University of Montana, has been awarded a prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.
UM Students Explore Earthquakes in Western Montana
UM undergraduate and graduate students study earthquake activity in western Montana, including a sequence of aftershocks caused by a Magnitude 5.8 earthquake that occurred near Lincoln, Montana, on July 6, 2017. The M5.8 mainshock was the largest earthquake to strike Montana in over 50 years,...
Payton Gardner Publishes Article in "Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems"
Assistant Professor in Geosciences, Payton Gardner, has published an article in the journal “Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.” Dr. Gardner and co-author David Susong of the Utah Water Science Center sampled gas concentrations in the Gibbon River near the Norris Geyser Basin in Yellowstone...
UM Professor to Lead International Geoscience Research Consortium
Rebecca Bendick, a University of Montana Geosciences professor, has been selected to lead UNAVCO, a nonprofit, academic consortium that supports geophysics research and workforce development around the globe.
Students from Geosciences Represent UM at American Geophysical Union Conference
Four students from UM Geosciences presented posters at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference in San Francisco, California, in December 2019. The AGU Fall Meeting is a major international conference that focuses on new discoveries in Earth and planetary sciences. In the first photo,...
