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Six things that will happen in the first month of your PhD

Mar 27, 2020 | Emily Bamber, PhD 2024

Emily is a first-year PhD student from Wales, UK. Her research focuses on surface processes on Mars using remote sensing and analogue field sites on Earth. Starting a PhD is a daunting prospect. It’s a looooooooong time, dedicated to the study a very specific topic. It’s made even more daunting…

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Spotlight on JSG Researchers for High School Students

Feb 11, 2020 | Megan Flansburg, PhD 2022

During the spring ‘19 semester I was the student liaison and project coordinator for a video series used in this year’s (’19-’20) Texas OnRamps geoscience course, entitled Earth, Wind, and Fire (EWF). I was drawn to work at OnRamps because of their mission to improve college enrollment in under-represented groups…

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Part I: Geoscience themed songs from around the world

Apr 25, 2019 | Natasha Sekhon, PhD Candidate

Art through music and film-making is an integral part of everyone’s daily life. Multiple studies (Ilari et al., 2013; Marsh, 2009) have explored the importance music plays in human existence from educative songs taught to children or exploring different cultures through the lens of music. Geosciences is no exception to…

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Send it for Science: A Mojave Desert Adventure

Nov 12, 2018 | Brandon Shuck, PhD 2021

Let’s be real, we all love fieldwork. It feels great to take a break from the repetitive days of grinding in the office and go outside to get your hands dirty. In mid-October I was fortunate to travel to the Mojave Desert and participate in the Mojave Broadband Seismic Experiment….

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From Russia, with Love: International Collaboration in Eastern Siberia

Oct 15, 2018 | Megan Flansburg (Ph.D. 2022) and Sam Robbins (M.S. 2020)

From August through early September, we spent four weeks in Russia, three of which were in remote eastern Siberia, doing field work at the slowest convergent margin (i.e., where two tectonic plates are moving toward one another) in the world! We traversed the dramatic terrain of the Verkhoyansk fold-thrust belt…

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