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President Biden appoints Inez Fung to science advisory council

“To have the opportunity to serve on PCAST is an immense honor, one I could not have imagined decades ago when I came to the United States from Hong Kong for college" -EPS Professor Inez...

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Berkeley Edge Conference

Prospective Graduate Students in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences: APPLICATION DEADLINE Sunday, October 3rd

Position Open: Assistant Professor - Department of Earth & Planetary Science

Applications accepted now through Thursday, Oct 14, 2021 at 11:59pm (PT), see full posting for details

Banfield lab members collecting soil samples in backyard

Mysterious DNA sequences, known as ‘Borgs,’ recovered from California mud

EPS Professor Jillian Banfield has stumbled upon weird DNA in her backyard, which led to a potentially exciting discovery.

2021 IASPEI Medal Awarded to EPS Professor Barbara Romanowicz

The International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (IASPEI) has awarded the 2021 IASPEI Medal to Earth & Planetary Science (EPS) Professor Barbara...

Workshop title Average Atom Models for Warm Dense Matter overlaying close-up photo of the Atomium in Brussels and text in blue banner beneath is 2 Day Online Workshop June 28, 29, 2021

Workshop: Average Atom Models for for Warm Dense Matter

2 Day Online Workshop June 28-29, 2021

model of Earth's inner core as a circle with color gradients yellow to green to dark blue from left to right and curving lines with arrows indicating movement

Is Earth’s core lopsided? Strange goings-on in our planet’s interior.

BSL scientist Daniel Frost and EPS Professor Barbara Romanowicz research Earth's interior and find unusual asymmetric growth of the inner core.

Carbon export and fate beneath a dynamic upwelled filament off the California coast

Hannah Bourne (EPS PhD 2018) has published a paper on her studies of carbon flux in coastal California waters

Water and Earthquakes

New book by EPS Professors Chi-Yuen Wang and Michael Manga now available

EPS 2021 Commencement

May 18th, 2:00-3:00 PM, Live Virtual Ceremony, Speaker: Ross Stein CEO of Temblor, Inc.

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