Welcome to the Department of
EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCE
University of California, Berkeley
307 McCone Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-4767
Phone: (510) 642-3993 • Fax: (510) 643-9980
EPS Research Spotlight
In a report published in the April 1, 2011 issue of Science, EPS faculty members David Shuster, Kurt Cuffey (also Dept. of Geography), former EPS graduate student Johnny Sanders, and Greg Balco of the Berkeley Geochronology Center, used apatite (U-Th)/He and 4He/3He thermochronometry to investigate topographic evolution in the archetypal glacial landscape of Fiordland, New Zealand. They found that the topography near Milford Sound was clearly not in steady state over the last 2 million years, while erosion removed the entire pre-Pleistocene landscape. Their data are best explained by up-valley propagation of erosion through the glacier-carved landscape during this time. This scenario is consistent with a subglacial erosion rate dependent on ice sliding velocity, but not ice discharge. Read Press Release from UC Berkeley at http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/03/31/novel-technique-reveals-how-glaciers-sculpted-their-valleys/
Read the full report at http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6025/84.full
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EPS Awards and News
Apr 2012 Professor Barbara Romanowicz has been selected by the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate to present the 2012-13 Martin Meyerson Berkeley Faculty Research Lecture. Read More...
Oct 2011 UC Berkeley volcano expert Ian Carmichael has died at 81 Read More...
Oct 2011 In a new 2011 ranking of Earth and Marine Science programs from around the world our department was considered #5! Read More...
Aug 2011 A New Kind of Carbon Explorer Rides Out the Storm 
Aug 2011 Tracking the mighty microbe 
Jun 2011 Paleontologist and sustainability advocate Bill Berry dies at 79