It isn’t too late to bring the planet back into balance. Researchers make unbelievable 770,000-year-old discovery in the ...

Locate construction materials such as sand and gravel. Identify groundwater aquifers. Provide data about subsurface stability and risks. Evaluate sites for waste disposal facilities. Locate natural ...

Detailed study of a Greenland glacier’s flow rate reveals the impact of environmental conditions. Even though ‘glacial’ is commonly used to describe extremely slow, steady movement ...

If Northwestern students want further evidence of climate change, they have to look no further than Northwestern’s very own glacier. The late Northwestern professor and geology chair Ulysses S. Grant ...

During this time, MTRI continued its glacier ablation, water quality, hydrology, terminus characterization, and remote sensing research. Michigan Tech’s geology department came back for a second field ...

Thanks to climate change, thawing permafrost in the Canadian Arctic has revealed the buried remnant of a glacier that’s 770,000 years old.

The Department of Geology has changed its name to the Department of Earth Sciences to better reflect the breath of its work.

Geology 36, 359-362 (2008b). Clark, P. U. & Mix, A. C. Ice sheets and sea level of the last glacial maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews 21, 1-7 (2002). ———— Northern Hemisphere ice-sheet ...