Congratulations to the following EAPS faculty who were recently recognized by the Interim Dean of Faculty John Carey, and from the centers and institutes within the Arts and Sciences! Read more here: fas.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/07...

Congratulations to the AY 25-26 Recipients of the John A. Ebers 1961 Memorial Prize Graduate Award for Outstanding graduate student TA. This year the recipients are Reina L. Harding and Jannitta Yao.

Congratulations to the AY 25-26 Recipients of the Earle S. Lenker 1956 Graduate Award for Outstanding academic achievement by a graduate student. This year the recipients are Mansa Krishna and Derek Pickell.

Dartmouth last month hosted the first international academic conference focused on how artificial intelligence can accelerate scientific discovery in glaciology. (Photo by Sophia Scull ’25) Read more here: home.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/07...

Congratulations to the AY 25-26 Recipients of the EARS Faculty Recognition Award for an outstanding publication by a graduate student! This year the recipients are Alexander (Alec) Getraer, and Jacob I. Chalif. See Alec’s paper: doi.org/10.1130/G531... See Jacob’s paper: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

Research published in Nature, co-authored by Professor of Earth and Planetary Science Mathieu Morlighem, looks at the predictability of Antarctic ice loss and what this means for sea-level rise projections. See more here: engineering.dartmouth.edu/news/scienti...

Please join us in honoring the retirement of Leslie Sonder! Leslie has been a key piece of the faculty in our department since she arrived at Dartmouth in 1988, previously serving as department chair and as the undergraduate major advisor, among her other accomplishments.r.

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Professors Jamie Horton, Thomas Jack, Leslie Sonder, and Jeffrey Taube shaped students, colleagues, and their fields in ways that will long outlast their time at Dartmouth.

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Congratulations to the AY 25-26 Recipients of the Gary B. Malone 1970 Memorial Award for highly engaged graduate student! This year the recipients are George (Geordi) Geier, Alexander (Alec) Getraer, and Benjamin (Benjy) Getraer.

Congratulations to the AY 25-26 Recipients of the Doug Bangs 1980 Memorial Award in Earth Sciences for Outstanding Stretchie! This year the recipients are Lang Burgess (Photos 1-5), Emma Carpenter (Photos 1-2, 6-8) , and Marina Rodriguez (Photos 1-2, 9-10).

Congratulations to the AY 25-26 Recipients of the Earle S. Lenker 1956 Undergraduate Award for Outstanding junior major in the classroom! This year the recipients are Cooper Hartshorn (Photos 1,3), Addie Winship (Photos 2,3), and Jeremy Wang (Photo 4).

Congratulations to the AY 25-26 Recipients of the Earle S. Lenker 1956 Undergraduate Award for Outstanding junior major in the field! This year the recipients are Gary Ding (Photo 1), Siri Bjerke (Photo 2), and Willie Kellogg (Photo 3).

Congratulations to the AY 25-26 Recipients of the Estwing Prize! This award is given annually to students for being great Morale builders in the field (on The Stretch). This year the recipients are Dankweli K. Mwaka (Photos 1-3), and Martin C. Skacel (Photo 4).

Congratulations to the AY 25-26 Recipients of the John A. Ebers 1961 Memorial Prize - Undergraduate Award! This award is given annually to Outstanding Senior Major students. This year the recipients (ing 1; L to R) are Adrianna J. Drindak, Hannah C. Clark (img 2), and Ryan E. Glenn (img 3)

Thank you to everyone who attended our EAPS Annual End-of-Year Picnic! We had a beautiful evening with great food, hacky sacking, and a visit from a porcupine! Congratulations to all of the 25-26 EARS department award winners, and congratulations to all on completing this academic year!

Yesterday was the Earth & Planetary Science 2026 Senior Honor Thesis Presentations, where twelve of our EAPS undergrads presented the culmination of the research studies they have completed this year. Special thanks to Leslie Sonder, the EAPS Undergraduate Advisor, for hosting this evening!

Associate Professor of EAPS Justin Strauss was recently quoted in Earth.com: “Given our understanding of the regional geology in northwestern Canada, there is great potential here to revisit our understanding of Ediacaran Earth history,”. See the article here: www.earth.com/news/canadia...

As of this summer, @dartmouthears.bsky.social will be known as the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. “We’ve been building toward this for about 20 years, and the research has genuinely grown to span both Earth and other planetary bodies,” says department chair Meredith Kelly.

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Dartmouth’s growing research program in planetary science will now have a name to match.

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.@dartmouthears.bsky.social professor Robert Hawley was named director of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning, which enriches teaching and learning on campus through programs and resources for anyone engaged in teaching at #Dartmouth.

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Robert Hawley will lead the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning.

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"There is great potential here to revisit our understanding of Ediacaran Earth history.” @dartmouthears.bsky.social professor Justin Strauss co-led a study that found a diverse deposit of Ediacaran fossils in Northwestern Canada, suggesting complex animals evolved earlier than previously understood.

Complex animals evolved up to 10 million years earlier than previously thought, fossil discovery shows

Trove of fossils discovered in Canada sheds light on "when life first became large, complex and unmistakenly animal."

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Today many of our EAPS undergrads presented their work at the Wetterhahn Science Symposium. Notably, two of our undergrads won 2nd & 3rd place for their Senior Honors Theses! Congratulations to Caleb Saks and Jacob Schnell! Read more on the Wetterhahn here: students.dartmouth.edu/surfd/news-e...

This term, EAPS undergraduate ‘Ale’aokalani Kahele (‘27) has worked on a project to create a guide for future Stretchies detailing the history of the different tribal lands the EAPS off-campus field program, ‘The Stretch’, goes through and more! See more here: alea-stretch-seven.vercel.app

Students in the field! Students in the EARS 1 intro lab course spent the afternoon learning how to gauge the stream velocity of Mink Brook in Etna, NH by measuring stream transect, depth, and velocity from Dr. Justin Stroup.

Please join us in congratulating C. Brenhin Keller who has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure! Read more about Brenhin’s work here: brenhinkeller.github.io

A New Name for Earth Sciences! Starting this summer, Dartmouth’s Department of Earth Sciences will be known as the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EAPS). Dartmouth’s growing research program in planetary science will now have a name to match! Read more: fas.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/05...

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Dartmouth’s growing research program in planetary science will now have a name to match.

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Congratulations to Professor of Earth Sciences Robert (Bob) Hawley, who has been named director of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning, effective July 1! As Bob says “Teaching and learning are, by their very nature, a human interaction”. home.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/05...

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Congratulations, Dr. Joel Wilner, on a successful PhD defense! Joel’s dissertation is titled “Pushing the Boundary: Modeling and Data-Driven Insights into Paleoclimate and Erosion at Glacial Margins”

Congratulations, Lauren Morrison, on a successful Master’s defense! Lauren’s thesis is titled “Investigating the preservation of goethite through magnetic techniques”.

Congratulations, Dr. Jiawen Li, on a successful PhD defense! Jiawen’s dissertation is titled “Tracing Microbial Methanogenesis and Methane Oxidation with Clumped Isotopologue Compositions of Methane”

Jacob Chalif, a graduate student in EAPS, was featured in an article commenting on his recently published study showing that "waviness" in the polar jet stream that brings Arctic-like conditions farther south are not historically uncommon. Read more at www.climate.us/news-and-fea...

Congratulations to EAPS Assistant Professor Sarah Slotznick for receiving the Department of Energy Early Career Research Program Award for 2025! The prestigious award provides long-term support for the research of outstanding early-career scientists. See more at: fas.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/01...