Department News

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...

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...

Dean College of Science
Mon August 24, 2009
Dr. Pamela Jansma, the new Dean of the College of Science, is a Geologist who is also a new professor in the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences. We want to welcome her as the first UTA Dean who is a geologist, and also the first College of Science Dean who is a woman. Dr. Jansma's research interests are in neo-tectonics. She specializes in Carribbean tectonics, monitoring surface deformation using special, high-accuracy global positioning receivers.

Dr. Andrew Hunt in the News
Mon April 20, 2009 - CNN
Dr. Andrew Hunt, Asst Professor of Environmental health at the University of Texas at Arlington spoke in the news about the contamination of soil at New Orleans, Louisiana. Read more...

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College of Science Teaching Award - John Holbrook
Citation by John Wickham
" I have known Dr. John Holbrook since 2004 when the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hired him for teaching and research in sedimentology. I first noticed his gift for teaching in the fall of 2005 when 90 students in two sections of a non-major introductory course gave him the highest ratings I had ever seen in that course. " Read more...

UTA Geology Alumni
"Mr. Chris Mazzini, President of Spindletop Oil & Gas Co., and UTA Geology Alumniwas the Commencement Speaker at the UT Arlington College of ScienceGraduation Commencement Ceremony held at Texas Hall on the UTA campus on December 15, 2008. Mr. Mazzini encouraged the graduating students by telling them that their future is prospective and that they can accomplish their career and life goals with a good attitude and hard work. A reception was given after the commencement speech in honor for the UTA Geology alumni."

Arlington Archosaur Site

"The Arlington Archosaur Site, discovered in 2003 by UTA students, is unique in that it is a major dinosaur excavation in the middle of a large metropolitan setting and in that it preserves so many fossils from different animals."To learn more about Arlington Archosaur you can visit "The Arlington Archosaur Site"

GSA South Central Meeting

"UTA EES exhibits at the GSA South Central Meeting." To learn more visit "GSA South Central Meeting"