Prof. Erich Osterberg Receives Tenure
Congratulations to Professor Erich Osterberg who received tenure this week. You can visit his faculty page here.
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Department of Earth Sciences statement on President Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Accord
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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Dartmouth Scientists Track Mercury Pollution
A new ice core shows the rise and fall of environmental mercury over a 600-year period.
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Ask Well: Arsenic in Rice Crackers? (The New York Times)
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
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The 2013 Stretch Student Saga: A Change in Course
Professor Carl Renshaw and 11 students just completed an unanticipated venture into the flood-ravaged canyons of Boulder, Colo.
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A Trace of Arsenic (Discover)
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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Radiation in Creek Seen as Legacy of Fracking (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg writes about a study linking above-normal amounts of naturally occurring radiation in a Pennsylvania creek to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the area of the creek, which flows into the Allegheny River.
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Evidence Found for Planet-Cooling Asteroid (Nature)
Nature points to a new study co-authored by Dartmouth’s Mukul Sharma, a professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, that links the impact of a comet or meteor striking the Earth to the dramatic global climate change that occurred 12,900 years ago.
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Study Links Prehistoric Climate Shift, Cosmic Impact
In a new study funded by the National Science Foundation, Dartmouth researchers and their colleagues report that for the first time, a dramatic climate shift that has long fascinated scientists has been linked to the impact in Quebec of an asteroid or comet.
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Dartmouth Drills at Denali to Document Climate Change
On June 18, Erich Osterberg left Alaska’s Denali National Park, where a collaborative Dartmouth-University of Maine-University of New Hampshire team had chronicled 1,000 years of regional climatic history.
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Recent Publications
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Recent Accumulation Variability in Northwest Greenland from GPR and Shallow Cores Along the Greenland Inland Traverse.
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5 years of volumetric change on lower Peyto Glacier, Alberta, Canada.
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Trace-element and physical response to melt percolation in Summit (Greenland) snow.
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A ten-year record of supraglacial lake evolution and rapid drainage in West Greenland using an automated processing algorithm fo
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