Earth and Planetary Science

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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.

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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...

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Workshop: Average Atom Models for for Warm Dense Matter

2 Day Online Workshop June 28-29, 2021

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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.

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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

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Water and Earthquakes

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

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ShakeAlert reaches CA+OR+WA

Critical milestone reached today for the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system: public alerts are now available across all three partner states: CA + OR + WA.

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