Geology Department
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| NASA’s Perseverance Fords an Ancient River to Reach Science Target | “The diversity of textures and compositions at Mount Washburn was an exciting discovery for the team, as these rocks represent a grab bag of geologic gifts brought down from the crater rim and potentially beyond,” said Brad Garczynski of Western Washington University in Bellingham… |
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| NASA rover discovers mysterious light-toned boulder "never observed before" on Mars | While exploring a crater on Mars that may give scientists insights into life that potentially once existed there, NASA said its Perseverance rover made an unprecedented discovery. The rover, which landed on the Red Planet in 2021 specifically to probe the ancient Jezero crater, found a… |
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| Grad students uncovering the mysteries of Oregon's Three Sisters Range, genetic variation in aging | |||
| Geology’s Asmaa Boujibar gets new $300,000 NASA grant to research the building blocks of planet Mercury | |||
| WWU faculty, alums collaborate on new display at the Museum of Northwest Art | |||
| Honors College director Scott Linneman to retire in August | |||
| The excitement of 70,000 Swifties can shake the Earth | The well-situated seismometer first came to public attention in January 2011, when it recorded the response of fans of the Seattle Seahawks, an American football team, to a magnificent touchdown by Marshawn Lynch, a running back known as “Beast Mode”. The “Beast Quake” went down in local… |
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| 13 reasons for Taylor Swift to celebrate her birthday | A Seattle seismologist found the crowd's dancing mixed with the booming speakers at Lumen Field caused seismic activity on par with a 2.3 magnitude… |
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| The Scientist Who Decodes the Songs of Undersea Volcanoes | We often think of volcanoes as skyscraping marvels, but these portals to the geologic underworld also reside underwater. Unfortunately, submarine volcanoes are trickier to study than their terrestrial siblings. But you would be hard-pressed to find anyone more enchanted by them — and more… |
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| Washington's Volcanoes Are Experiencing Seismic Tremors from an Unlikely Source: Glaciers | Most people think of seismic activity as the result of movement along faults or of violent volcanic eruptions. But seismic events can have other causes, including floods and even… |