Dr. Elizabeth Swanner wins 2019 GSA Geobiology division award

Congratulations to Dr. Elizabeth (Betsy) Swanner, Assistant Professor in the geology department, who has won the 2019 pre-tenure GSA (Geological Society of America) Geobiology Division… Read More

Dr. Yuyu Zhou standing in Agronomy Hall.
LAS Emerging Faculty Leader Award: Dr. Yuyu Zhou

Dr. Yuyu Zhou was recently selected as recipient of a 2019 LAS Emerging Faculty Leader Award. The awards are funded by generous donations from… Read More

Skull (left, viewed from the underside) and lower jaw (right, in side view) of Culebratherium alemani, a 20-million-year-old fossil sea cow from Panama.
Central America’s oldest marine mammal from the Panama Canal

Drs. Jorge Velez-Juarbe, Assistant Curator of Marine Mammals, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and Aaron Wood, Director of the Iowa State Geology Field… Read More

Undergraduate Geology Student Gabrielle Ledesma Featured on ISU Homepage

Gabrielle Ledesma, an ISU junior geology major, has been featured in an article posted to Iowa State University’s homepage. The piece highlights the research that… Read More

Dr. Cinzia Cervato stands in front of a classroom of students in her Geology 100 class.
Dr. Cinzia Cervato featured in ISU News

Dr. Cinzia Cervato, Morrill Professor in the Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, was featured in an ISU News article published on August 28, 2018. Read More

GEOL 306 students standing in front of the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps.
Students experience structural geology in the Swiss Alps

Stepping outside to have class in view of the Matterhorn was a geology major’s dream come true for 20 Iowa State students this summer. Jacqueline… Read More

Chanel Vidal, geology sophomore, featured in ISU news story

Chanel Vidal, who just started her sophomore year as a geology major at Iowa State University, was recently featured in a ISU news story highlighting… Read More

Gabrielle Ledesma, working with Dr. Elizabeth Swanner, receives Dean’s High Impact Undergraduate Research Award

Gabrielle Ledesma, an undergraduate student majoring in geology, received a Dean’s High Impact Undergraduate Research Award to work with Dr. Elizabeth Swanner, assistant professor of… Read More

Dr. Alan Wanamaker and Suzanne Ankerstjerne earn LAS awards

Dr. Al Wanamaker, associate professor in geology, and Suzanne Ankerstjerne, the Stable Isotope Lab manager and lecturer in geology, both recently received awards from Iowa… Read More

Dr. William Gutowski standing in the foreground. A small pond appears in the middle ground. Trees and houses in the distant backbround.
Gutowski selected as lead author in IPCC Sixth Assessment Report

William Gutowski has been selected to be a lead author for the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment report which will be published… Read More

GEAT Seminar Spring 2018: Dr. Andrew Hutsky April 13

The GEAT department welcomes Dr. Andrew Hutsky from the University of Mount Union as our next seminar speaker. Title: Structural controls on sedimentation patterns… Read More

Dr. Betsy Swanner’s research highlighted in College News

An experiment conducted by Dr. Betsy Swanner recently made headlines in College News. Follow this link for more information:… Read More

Photo of Slawek Tulaczyk of the University of California - Santa Cruz
GEAT Seminar Spring 2018: Dr. Slawek Tulaczyk February 2

The GEAT department welcomes Dr. Slawek Tulaczyk from UC-Santa Cruz as our next seminar speaker. Title: When ice motion goes seismic: Is glacier sliding… Read More

Photograph of an algal bloom on a lake in Iowa. Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms, which can produce toxins that pose health risk to humans and animals, look like spilled paint on the water surface when present in Iowa’s lakes.
Iowa State University researchers receive EPA grant to study harmful algal blooms in Iowa lakes.

Dr. Elizabeth Swanner, along with researchers from the ISU College of Engineering, received a $760,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to study harmful… Read More

Photo of Dr. Karen Seto of Yale University
GEAT Seminar Spring 2018: Dr. Karen Seto January 19

The GEAT department welcomes Dr. Karen Seto from Yale University as our next seminar speaker. Title: Future urban expansion and implications for building energy… Read More

GEAT Seminar Fall 2017: Dr. Chad Wittkop November 14

The GEAT department welcomes Dr. Chad Wittkop from Minnesota State University-Mankato as our next seminar speaker. Title: Chemical sedimentation processes in ferruginous lakes: Models… Read More

Field Trip to the Swiss Alps!

The trip will lead us to the Alps next August 3-17, 2018 and we will get to see some extraordinary geology. Read about it here… Read More

Dr. Neal Iverson awarded Arthur L. Day Medal from the Geological Society of America

Dr. Neal Iverson was honored with the Arthur L. Day Medal from the Geological Society of America at the Annual Meeting in Seattle on October… Read More

Dr. Betsy Swanner’s research highlighted in College News

Dr. Betsy Swanner and students’ research on harmful algal blooms in West and East Lake Okoboji was recently featured in a College news article. Follow… Read More

Dr. Chris Harding and Dr. Franek Hasiuk highlighted in College News

Dr. Chris Harding and Dr. Franek Hasiuk have developed software for printing terrain models on a 3-D printer. Follow the link to the college news… Read More