The Department of Earth Sciences (EARS) is devoted to the study of the natural world in which we live. Working with a tightknit faculty, our students take courses and pursue research under the broad category of 'environmental geosciences'. In our research, we combine field studies with laboratory-based and theoretical studies of fundamental processes affecting the Earth's surface through geologic time.
Starting this term, Brenhin Keller joins us as an Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences. Brenhin comes to Dartmouth by way of UC Berkeley and the Berkeley Geochronology Center, where he worked for two years as a postdoctoral fellow after completing his PhD at Princeton in 2016.
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Dartmouth Earth Sciences welcomes a new Neukom Postdoctoral Fellow – Akshay Mehra, PhD. to start September 1, 2019
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The earth scientist was invited by the Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition.
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The Neukom Fellows program is an interdisciplinary postdoctoral program at Dartmouth that may provide another means of working with or being mentored by faculty in our department. More information can be found here.
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Congratulations to Professor Erich Osterberg who received tenure this week. You can visit his faculty page here.
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We, the undersigned (72) members of the Department of Earth Sciences at Dartmouth College, strongly support the Paris (Climate) Agreement and urge the United States government to commit to limiting greenhouse gas emissions and containing global warming to below 2°C.
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A new ice core shows the rise and fall of environmental mercury over a 600-year period.
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To help answer a reader’s question posed on The New York Times “Ask Well” column about the levels of arsenic found in rice vinegar and rice crackers, the newspaper’s Deborah Blum turns to Dartmouth’s Brian Jackson for his
Read MoreProfessor Carl Renshaw and 11 students just completed an unanticipated venture into the flood-ravaged canyons of Boulder, Colo.
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In a story about arsenic and whether any level of the naturally occurring element might be safe to ingest, Discover magazine speaks with a number of Dartmouth scientists who’ve done research on arsenic in drinking water and in food products.
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