Raymond Bradley awarded $2.5 million grant to study climate and environmental history of Greenland’s northernmost region

CSRC Director Raymond Bradley will lead a team of researchers to Peary Land, Greenland’s northernmost region to document past changes in the climate and environment of the area. This project is supported by a $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation. Read more here.

Ph.D. candidate Ruthie Halberstadt awarded an NSF Post Doctoral Research Fellowship

Ph.D. candidate Ruthie Halberstadt has been awarded a highly competitive NSF Post Doctoral Research Fellowship: “High-resolution Nested Antarctic Ice Sheet Modeling to Reconcile Marine and Terrestrial Geologic Data”. Her research project includes ongoing collaborations with professors Rob DeConto, her advisor, and Greg Balco at UC Berkeley.

New Modeling Study Points to Antarctic Ice Sheet Contributing to Rapid Sea Level Rise

In a new paper, published today in Nature, Rob DeConto and colleagues describe how warming in excess of 2 C would drastically accelerate the pace of sea-level rise by 2100. The team used a physics-based model of the ice sheet to test Paris Agreement target temperature thresholds. Read more in the UMass news release and the open access journal paper.

Research reveals more than a third of U.S. Corn Belt farmland has lost a carbon-rich topsoil

Research conducted by UMass Amherst Geosciences graduate student Evan Thaler, along with professors Isaac Larsen and Qian Yu, developed a method using satellite imagery to map areas in agricultural fields in the Corn Belt of the Midwestern U.S. that have no remaining A-horizon soil. Read the UMass news release and see the journal article for more information.

Julie Brigham-Grette awarded Geological Society of America (GSA) Continental Scientific Drilling Division (CSD) Distinguished Lecturer 2020

The Geological Society of America’s (GSA) Continental Scientific Drilling Division (CSD) Geosciences Professor Julie Brigham-Grette as one of its two Distinguished Lecturers for 2020, which means she will be available to give online seminars on her Arctic drilling research to geologists anywhere in the world by request this fall and into spring 2021. Read more in the UMass news release.