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Her talk was titled " UMD: Unravel Meteoritic Dating ". Graduate Student Elaine Jaross been selected to receive an Outstanding Student Presentation Award for her presentation at the 2023 annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Graduate Student Benjamin Moyer has been selected to receive a Computational Science Graduate Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Energy. read more... Graduate students Sumedha Desikamani, Lucas Andrews, and Cosmo Varah-Sikes have been awarded "Future Investigator in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology" (FINESST) grants. UMD alum Chris Yakymchuk (Ph.D. 2014) has been awarded the 2024 Early Geological Career Award from the Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology and Volcanology Division of the Geological Society of America. read more... Upcoming Events No Upcoming Events Recent Graduate and Undergraduate Student Publications Joseph Malin et al . (2024) Longitudinal stream synoptic (LSS) monitoring to evaluate water quality in restored streams . Environmental Monitoring and Assessment . 196 437. Lori Willhite et al . (2024) Oxygen Fugacity of Global Ocean Island Basalts . Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems . 25(1) e2023GC011249. Joseph Galella et al . (2023) Freshwater Salinization Syndrome Alters Nitrogen Transport in Urban Watersheds . Water . 15(22) 3956. Emily Chiappe et al . (2023) Age, genetics, and crystallization sequence of the group IIIE iron meteorites . Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta . 354 51-61. Carly Maas et al . (2023) Freshwater salinization syndrome limits management efforts to improve water quality . Frontiers in Environmental Science . 11 Zachary Zega and Zhu . (2023) Stabilizing Effect of High Pore Fluid Pressure on Fault Growth During Drained Deformation . Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth . 128(8) e2023JB026536. Ziqin Ni et al . (2023) Detection of Short Peptide Putative Biosignatures of Psychrophiles via Laser Desorption Mass Spectrometry . Astrobiology . 23(6) Liam Peterson et al . (2023) The H content of aubrites: An evaluation of bulk versus in situ methods for quantifying water in meteorites . Earth and Planetary Science Letters . 620 118341. Emily Chiappe et al . (2023) Age, genetics, and crystallization sequence of the group IIIE iron meteorites . Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta . 354 51-61. Joseph Galella, Carly Maas et al . (2023) Stormwater best management practices: Experimental evaluation of chemical cocktails mobilized by freshwater salinization syndrome . Frontiers in Environmental Science . 11 William Hoover et al . (2023) Reaction-Induced Porosity in an Eclogite-Facies Vein Selvage (Monviso Ophiolite, W. Alps): Textural Evidence and In Situ Trace Elements and Sr Isotopes in Apatite . Journal of Petrology . 64 1-23. Laura Sammon et al . (2022) Compositional Attributes of the Deep Continental Crust Inferred From Geochemical and Geophysical Data . Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth . 127(8) e2022JB024041. Amelia Lindsay-Kaufman et al . (2022) Describing Difficult Shell-Hash Assemblages from the Lower Cambrian Soltanieh Formation, Alborz Mountains, Northern Iran . Palaios . 37(7) 374-391. Sandy Herho . (2022) A Univariate Extreme Value Analysis and Change Point Detection of Monthly Discharge in Kali Kupang, Central Java, Indonesia . International Journal on Informatics Visualization . 6(4) 862-868. Lucas Cherry et al . (2022) A diverse Ediacara assemblage survived under low-oxygen conditions . Nature Communications . 13 7306. Liam Peterson et al . (2022) The H 2 O content of the ureilite parent body . Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta . Kathryn Franklin and Huang . (2022) Revealing Crustal Deformation and Strain Rate in Taiwan Using InSAR and GNSS . Geophysical Research Letters . 49(21) e2022GL101306. Sandy Herho and Firdaus . (2022) Time-series analysis and statistical forecasting of daily rainfall in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia . International Journal of Data Science . 3(1) 25-32. Sandy Herho et al . (2022) On the Statistical Learning Analysis of Rain Gauge Data over the Natuna Islands . Indonesian Journal of Statistics and Its Applications . 6(2) 347–357. William Hoover et al . (2022) Episodic fluid flow in an eclogite-facies shear zone: Insights from Li isotope zoning in garnet . Geology . 50 (6) 746-750. Austin Gion et al . (2022) Characterizaiton of biotite and amphibole compositions in granites . Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology . 177 43. Kelsey Wood, Joseph Galella et al . (2022) Tree trade-offs in stream restoration: impacts on riparian groundwater quality . Urban Ecosystems . 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