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MS Student to Present Research at National GSA Meeting
Mon October 5, 2009

Jesse Cope, Geology MS student in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, has been awarded for his poster on the sensitivity of Eocene ocean circulation to Arctic freshwater pulses at a Geological Society of America section meeting in Dallas in Spring 2008. He has been invited to present his research at the national GSA meeting in Portland. The research supervised by Assistant Prof. Winguth involves climate simulations performed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO, and is supported by the National Science Foundation.

BS in Environmental Science Approved by the Texas Higher Education Board Wed September 2, 2009

The new BS in Environmental and Earth Science is designed to prepare students for present and future environmental challenges. Coursework is split evenly between biology and geology, with a significant component of math and chemistry. Jobs in this growing field occur in local, state and federal government agencies as well as the private sector. Students will be able to become majors starting in October, when the degree plan will be posted and included in MyMav.

NSF Grants Recieved
Mon August 31, 2009
Arne Winguth and Harry Rowe, assistant professors in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences in the College of Science, are co-principal investigators in a National Science Foundation grant of $114,000 awarded for a research project over four years entitled “Collaborative Research: Chemostratigraphic Analysis of Panthalassic and Tethyan Permian-Triassic Boundary Sections: Assessment of Global Paleoceanographic Dynamics”. Read more...

Three Professors Receive Grant
Mon August 31, 2009
Three assistant professors in the UT Arlington Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, along with colleagues at two other institutions, have just been awarded a $566,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change program. Almost $320,000 of the three-year grant has been awarded to UT Arlington. Drs. Harry Rowe, Arne Winguth, and Max Hu, all recent hires at UTA, are studying how the climate system in eastern North America evolved during the last eight glacial-interglacial cycles, which cover the last 600,000 years of Earth’s history. Read more...


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