Geosciences News Archive:

• The department's annual Winter Retreat is Friday, February 1. Lunch begins at Noon in the Guyot Great Hall with oral presentations starting at 1pm in Guyot 10. more info
• Just a reminder: Classes for the spring semester begin on Monday, February 4th.
• Haewon Park will give her Final Oral Presentation on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 in Guyot 110. The title is "Cadmium Carbonic Anhydrase of Marine Diatoms: Diversity and Expression" more details
• Haewon Park's Ph.D. dissertation is in Guyot 110 for inspection. The title is "Cadmium Carbonic Anhydrase of Marine Diatoms: Diversity and Expression"
• Congratulations to Dr. Eric Egleston on successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis!
• The Geosciences Fall Final Exam schedule is now available. more info
• Junior Independent Work Oral Presentations will be held Tuesday, January 15, 2008, in Guyot 155 starting at 10:30 am. more info
• The new Department of Geosciences Resources and Procedures Manual is now available online!
• New Princeton-Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences graduate program announced. more info
• Eric Egleston's thesis is in Guyot 110 for inspection. The title is "Biological, Chemical, and Policy Aspects of the Relationship Between Productivity and the Ocean Carbon Cycle"
• Due to the departmental academic review on November 19-20, a number of classroom changes have been made. more info
• The Department is pleased to announce a lecture by George Philander on Wednesday November 4, at 4pm in Guyot 220 entitled "An African Perspective on Global Warming."
• Nicholas Swanson-Hysell will present his First Year Oral Complete Presentation on Friday, October 25, in Guyot 155 at 4:30 pm.
• Congratulations to Dr. Tarje Florian Nissen-Meyer on successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis!
• The 2006-2007 Arnold Guyot Graduate Student Teaching Prizes have been awarded to Peter DiFiore and Sarah Johnston. Criteria used in evaluations are length of service, student course evaluations, and overall contribution to development to the laboratory curriculum.
• The Arnold Guyot Bicentennial Exhibit runs from September 5 - October 25th in the Frist Campus Center. more info
• Congratulations to Will Levandowksi '07 who has won an Outstanding Student Paper Award for his presentation at the 2007 AGU meeting. This is the second time he has won this award.
• CHEVRON RECRUITING at Princeton University, Tuesday, September 18, 2007, Room TBA, Guyot Hall.
  Signup sheet is in Room 110, Guyot Hall. See Sheryl Rickwell
• Congratulations to Dr. Michael Hay on successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis!
• Congratulations to all of our graduating Seniors and Graduate Students!
• Congratulations to Will Levandowski '07 who has won an Outstanding Student Paper for his presentation at the AGU 2006 Fall Meeting.
• GEO 300: 2007 PENN-YBRA - Red Lodge Field Trip. Summer course in Geologic Field Methods, Red Lodge, MT. See Sheryl Rickwell (Guyot 110) or Laurel Goodell (Guyot M181) for an application.
• New courses for the spring semester include:GEO 318/ENV 318: Observing the Marine Environment, which is taught at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Science; GEO 422: Data, Models, and Uncertainty in the Natural Sciences; and GEO 450: Earth Surface Processes, which includes a field trip to the Bahamas.
• Congratulations to Satish Myneni and Pascale Poussart for the article in news@nature.com on their new paper on tropical dendrochemistry.
  
• Tullis Onstott's research is featured on Princeton University's news web page.
  
• Information session for Danny Sigman's Spring GEO308/ENV318 course will be Wednesday, 12/06/06, 7:30-8:30 PM in Guyot 10. More info
• A preliminary draft of the Geosciences 2006-07 Spring Term Courses is now available.
• Adam Maloof's research featured on Princeton University's news page.
• Chevron Recruiting will be here Sept. 22th all day. More details to follow.
• Congratulations to Guust Nolet who has just been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! More info
• Congratulations to all of our graduating students!
• Incoming Graduate Student Orientation will be Friday, September 8th. More details
• Exxon Recruiting will be here Sept. 15th all day. More details
• Congratulations to Tom Duffy who has been promoted to full professor.
• Congratulations to Tarje Nissen-Meyer and Karin Sigloch, who have both received Honorific Fellowships from the Graduate School for their final year of graduate study.
• General Examination for Christopher M. Little will be held May 9th at 2:00 pm in Guyot 155.
• Junior and Senior Oral Presentations will be held on Thursday, May 4, 2006. More info
• Final Public Oral Examination for Bryan K. Mignone, May 2, 2006. More info
• Reunions are coming! Friday, June 2nd. More info
• Congratulations to Guust Nolet who has just been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! More info
• Congratulations to Tom Duffy who has been promoted to full professor.
• Congratulations to Tarje Nissen-Meyer and Karin Sigloch, who have both received Honorific Fellowships from the Graduate School for their final year of graduate study.
• Congratulations to Tarje Nissen-Meyer who has been selected to receive an Outstanding Student Paper Award for his presentation at the 2005 Fall Meeting of the AGU.
• Geosciences Freshman/ Sophmore Open House will be held on 4/5/2006 at 9:00 PM in the Great Hall. All welcome! More info
• The Grad Student/Grad Alumni Career Mixer will be held in the Guyot Great Hall February 15th. More info
• Congratulation to Danny Sigman on his promotion to tenure!
• Important information for GEO/AOS Retreat!
• Congratulations to Dr. Angie Knapp!
• Congratulations to Dr. Alexandra Navrotsky, who has been selected as the 2006 Harry H. Hess Medalist.
• Raffaella Montelli's 2004 Science paper named as one of 3 most important in the Geosciences in past 2 years.More info
• Penn-YBRA Summer Course in Geologic Field Methods, Red, Lodge, MT is now open for applications. More info
• Junior Paper Titles for Class of '07 now available.
  Congratulations to Guust Nolet, who has just been awarded the Beno Gutenberg Medal of the European Geosciences Union in recognition of his outstanding contributions to seismology.
• The Geosciences Final Exam Schedule is now posted on the Undergraduate Education page.
• 2005-2006 Harry Hess Fellows Program announced. More information...
• Congratulations to Jorge Sarmiento, who has just been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• Junior and Senior Thesis Guides are now available.Preparation Checklist for Ph.D. Defense now available! (pdf file)
• A recruiter will be here from ExxonMobil on September 27-28. Please contact Sheryl Rickwell for more information and to set up an interview.
• A recruiter from ChevronTexaco will be here on Friday, September 10. Please email Sheryl Rickwell to set up a meeting.
• Princeton Geosciences Open House on Tuesday, Sept 7, 2004, 2-3 pm, Room 155 Guyot Hall. More information...
• Welcome to Nadine McQuarrie, who has just joined the department as an Assistant Professor!
• Congratulations to Bess Ward, who was just elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• Our annual Reunions Alumni Tea will be held on Friday, May 28, from 3:45-5:00 pm in the Guyot Great Hall.
• Congratulations to George Philander who has been elected to the US National Academy of Sciences!
• Meredith Galanter Hastings' Final Oral Examination will be held Wednesday, April 21, at 2 pm in Room 220
• Geosciences Open House, Wednesday, April 7th at 9pm in the Guyot Great Hall. Pizza, slides, and much more!
• Congratulations to Prof. Greg van der Vink who has been selected to receive an Excellence in Teaching Award from the Undergraduate Engineering Council!
• George Philander will be giving a lecture at the Princeton U-Store on April 22nd at 7pm.
• Congratulations to Allan Rubin, who has just been elected as a Fellow of the AGU.
• Junior Undergraduate Independent Work Oral Presentations will be given on Wednesday, January 7th. More information.
• ExxonMobil and Shell Oil Company recruiters are here this week. See Sheryl (110 Guyot Hall) for details.
• Alexandre Fournier's thesis is in Room 110, Guyot Hall. the title is "Incompressible Fluid Flows in Rapidly Rotating Cavities"
• Congratulations to Jason Morgan, who has just been named a recipient of the National Medal of Science, "the nation's highest honor for scientists and engineers presented annually by the President of the United States".
• ExxonMobil will be recruiting in the department on November 3rd and 4th.
• Li Hung Lin's thesis is in Room 110, Guyot Hall. the title is "Radiolytic H2 and Microbial Communities int he Witwatersrand Basin
• The oral reports on the first year research for grad students will be given on Thursday afternoon, October 2, 2003 in Room 155, Guyot Hall.
• The final public Oral Examination for Raffaella Montelli will be Wednesday,October 1, 2003, at 2PM in Room 220 Guyot Hall.
• The Geosciences Undergraduate Open House will be Tuesday, September 9, 2003, from 2:00-3:00 in Guyot Room 155.
• The final public Oral Examination for Adam Baig will be Friday, September 12, 2003, at 2PM in Room 220 Guyot Hall.
• Raffaella Montelli’s thesis is in Room 110, Guyot Hall for inspection. The title is – “Seismic Tomography Beyond Ray Theory”
• Sergio Speziale's thesis is in Room 110, Guyot Hall, for inspection. The title is "Elastic Properties of Earth materials"
• There has been a change in the GRE testing rules for citizens of China, Hong Kong, Korea and Taiwan. Please see the page for Foreign Grad Applicants for more details.
• Adam M. Baig's thesis is in Room 110, Guyot Hall, for inspection. The title is "Wavefront Healing in Random Media"
• Congratulations to Ruby Ho and Sean Shieh on the birth of their son, Charlie. He arrived on June 17 at 1:07PM weighing in at 7 lbs. 11 ozs. and 20". All are doing well!
• Congratulations to Terrence McCloskey '03 on winning The Peter W. Stroh ’51 Environmental Senior Thesis Prize from PEI.
• Congratulations to George Philander on his election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences!
• Congratulations to Issac Held on his election to the National Academy of Sciences
• Sara Carena’s thesis is in Room 110, Guyot Hall for inspection. The title is – “Imaging Faults in 3-D from Earthquakes, with Examples from Southern California and Taiwan”
• The Department will hold its annual Alumni Tea for those returning for Reunions on Friday, May 30th, in the Great Hall
• The Department is deeply saddened by the loss of Rob Hargraves on March 21st. More information.
• Congratulations to Tony Dahlen who was awarded the Lehmann medal, one of the highest honors AGU bestows on its members.The Lehmann Medal will be given not more often than every other year in recognition of outstanding contributions to the understanding of the structure, composition, and dynamics of the Earth's mantle and core. It was awarded to Tony for fundamental theoretical advances laying the foundations of modern global seismology.
• Congratulations to Jorge Sarmiento for being elected as a 2003 AGU fellow. AGU members who are selected as Fellows have attained an acknowledged eminence in a branch of the geophysical sciences. The number of Fellows selected annually is limited to no more than 0.1% of the AGU membership.
• Congratulations to Anne and François Morel on the birth of their son, Stephane Marie Kraepiel Morel. All are doing well.
• Explore Geosciences and Geological Engineering. The Geosciences Open House will be April 9 at 9 pm in the Guyot Foyer. Pizza, slides, and much more!
• Oral Presentations for First-Year Graduate Students will be held on March 27th from 12:30-4:00 pm in Room 155.
• Don't despair! There's still time to sign up for GEO 202A,B and GEO 210A,B, since enrollment has been increased.
• Brian Mailloux to give Final Public Oral Examination on Monday, December 2, 2002, at 12:00 (noon) in Guyot 220. “The Role of Aquifer and Microbial Heterogeneity on the Transport and Activity of Bacteria in the Columbia Aquifer, Oyster, Virginia”
• Fellowship/Internship opportunity for graduate and undergraduate students sponsored by the Department of Energy, the Global Change Education Program.
• A representative from Exxon Mobil will be here on Monday, October 21st and Tuesday, October 22nd. Brochures and a sign-up sheet are in Sheryl's office.
• Sigal Abramovich will give her Final Public Oral Examination on Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 9 am in Room 155.
• Representatives from ChevronTexaco will be here at 8:30 am on Thursday, September 26 to conduct interviews. Sign-up sheet in Sheryl's office. More information.
• Karen Casciotti to give Final Public Oral Examination on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 at 2 pm in Room 154.
• Welcome to John Fahey, the department's new Facilities and Safety Manager
• Competition for 2003-2004 Harry Hess Fellowship Announced
• Congratulations to Karen Casciotti, who has recieved an Outstanding Student Paper Award from AGU at the 2002 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu, HI. The title of her paper was: Isotope Signatures for N2O Production by Marine Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria
• Welcome to Brian Mohr, the department's new IT Manager. He comes to Geosciences from OIT. Prior to that he worked with us over at AOS.
• The new Guyot Science is now available as a downloadable pdf file.
• Alex Fournier has been awarded an Honorific Fellowship for 2002/2003
• A section for NSF Program Announcements has been added to the Policies page.
• Tom Duffy has been promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor.
• Congratulations to Kristen and Allen Milligan on the birth of their son, Paden Allen Milligan.
• Michael Hay receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
• Congratulations to Adam Baig, who has just received an Outstanding Student Paper Award for his presentation at the Fall 2001 AGU meeting.
• Congratulations to Alexandre Fournier who has also received an Oustanding Student Paper Award at the Fall 2001 AGU Meeting.
• Tony Dahlen has been named as the new chair of the Department of Geosciences
• The Harry Hess Fellows Program has announced that it is open for applications.