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Grace Morse, 79, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, November 21, 2018 in her home surrounded by her loved ones after a long battle with Congestive Heart Failure.
She was born September 14, 1939 in Saint Johnsbury, VT to Gerald Brown and Eunice (Peck) Brown. Grace graduated from Danville High School in 1957. She attended Burdett School of Business in Boston MA. After graduating she spent time working in Boston at Otis Elevator Company as an...
[more]"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. Please see the position announcement at http://neukom.dartmouth.edu/programs/neukom_fellows_app.html
Congratulations to Professor Erich Osterberg who received tenure this week. You can visit his faculty page here.
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. As scientists who study the evidence of and mechanisms for climate change, as well as predictions for future change based on different scenarios of greenhouse gas emissions, we stress the need to limit greenhouse gas emissions...
[more]Announcement:
Richard “Dick” W. Birnie, 71, Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences passed away Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016. Dick was a vital member of the department for many years. He will be deeply missed by all who knew him. A memorial service for Dick will be held Saturday, November 19, 2016 at 1 pm in the Rollins Chapel at Dartmouth College. Reception to follow at Top of Hop
Please enjoy a few comments from those who knew Dick.
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[more]Ice Loss Accelerating in Greenland’s Coastal Glaciers, Dartmouth Study Finds
HANOVER, N.H. – April 28, 2016 – Surface meltwater draining through and underneath Greenland’s tidewater glaciers is accelerating their loss of ice mass, according to a Dartmouth study that sheds light on the relationship between meltwater and subglacial discharge.
The...
[more]Online recruitment fair for potential graduate students: Wednesday, November 18, 1-3pm EST. Find out more at dartgo.org/darmouth-fair
A Dartmouth-led study using a 600-year-old ice core shows that global mercury pollution increased dramatically during the 20th century, but that mercury concentrations in the atmosphere decreased faster than previously thought beginning in the late 1970s.
CRREL research chemist Sam Beal, PhD ’14, conducted the mercury research as a graduate student in Dartmouth’s Department of Earth Sciences. (Photo courtesy of Sam Beal, PhD ’14)
The study, conducted by Assistant...
[more]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 expertise on the subject.
“The question for everyone is, ‘Do I worry?’ ” says Jackson, a research associate professor of earth sciences and director of the Trace Metal Analysis Core Facility...
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