Dating the Ancient Minoan Eruption of Thera Using Tree Rings
UA News, 8/15/18
STEM Shifts in Higher Ed
University Business Magazine, 7/6/18
New Research Unveils True Origin of Ancient Turquoise
UA News, 6/14/18
Antarctic Ice Loss Ramps Up, Speeding Sea Level Rise
UA News, 6/13/18
UA oceanographer part of study that modifies views on Southern Ocean's climate role
Arizona Daily Star, 6/10/18
UA Scientists Selected as Authors for International Climate Report
UA News, 6/4/18
Dusty Rainfall Records Reveal New Understanding of Climate
UA News, 5/24/18
First Evidence of Ocean Warming Around Galápagos Corals
UA News, 2/21/18
No Volcanic Winter in East Africa From Ancient Toba Eruption
UA News, 2/6/18
Record Jump in 2014-2016 Temps Largest Since 1900
UA News, 1/24/18
Hidden Water: Pozos of the Gran Desierto
Arizona Daily Star, 1/21/18
2017
Ancient Humans Left Africa to Escape Drying Climate
UA News, 10/4/17
More water, more restoration bound for Colorado River Delta
Arizona Daily Star, 10/1/17
Retired UA geologist, pilot has autographs of legendary aviators and astronauts
Arizona Daily Star, 9/10/17
The flow of what's below: A million dollar idea
The Daily Wildcat 9/5/17
Keck Foundation grants $1M to University of Arizona geoscientists
Sierra Vista Herald Review 8/24/17
UA Geoscientists Take a Crack at Paradox Basin's Mysteries
UA News 8/23/17
U.S.-Mexico water pact aims for a greener Colorado delta
Science 8/18/17
Putting fossils to work in hopes of restoration
PNAS 8/15/17
Sea level rise isn’t just happening, it’s getting faster
The Washington Post 6/26/17
Amazonia's Future Will Be Jeopardized by Dams
UA News 6/14/17
Why Are the Vermilion Cliffs So Red?
Live Science 6/10/17
Wulfenite Joins Other State Symbols as Official Mineral
Arizona Public Media 5/16/17
The fate of Africa’s Lake Tanganyika lies in the balance
The Conversation 4/27/17
Found: Thousands of Man-Made Minerals—Another Argument for the Anthropocene
Scientific American 3/1/17
Colorado River Flows to Keep Shrinking as Climate Warms
UA News 2/20/17
UA Researchers Win Four of Five State Bisgrove Scholar Awards
UA News 1/23/17
Green Sahara's Ancient Rainfall Regime Revealed by Scientists
UA News 1/18/17
2016
How much longer can Antarctica’s hostile ocean delay global warming?
Nature 11/16/16
Colorado River's dead clams tell tales of carbon emission
Cornell Chronicle 10/31/16
Colorado River Delta Flows Help Birds, Plants, Groundwater
UA News 10/19/16
Internships Give a Career Boost to Geosciences Transfer Students
UA News 10/12/16
Curiosity Drives Wonder About Mars
AAPG Explorer 10/16
Westerly winds have blown across central Asia for at least 42 million years
EurekAlert! 9/13/16
UA research shows sea levels predict global temp changes
Arizona Daily Wildcat 9/12/16
Pacific Sea Level Predicts Global Temperature Changes
UA News 8/17/16
The waters of this huge African lake aren’t mixing — and the consequences could be devastating
Wasghington Post 8/9/16
Has global warming killed off the fish in Africa's deepest lake?
CNBC 8/9/16
World’s longest lake is being depleted of life as waters warm
New Scientist 8/8/16
Decline of fishing in Lake Tanganyika 'due to warming'
BBC News 8/8/16
Lake Tanganyika Fisheries Declining From Global Warming
UA News 8/8/16
The Colorado River’s unexpected carbon footprint
High Country News 7/26/16
Rock On: A Reunion at the UA Mineral Museum
UA News 6/15/16
Global Ocean Data Illuminate Earth's Future Climate
CyVerse 6/8/16
Post-Wildfire Erosion Can Sculpt Forested Mountains
UANews 4/18/16
Drought in Eastern Mediterranean Worst of Past 900 Years
UANews 3/3/16
Barbara Carrapa - The World's Highest Mountains are Her Classroom
UA Parent and Family Programs Newsletter 3/1/16
Here's why University of Arizona geologists fall for potholes
Arizona Daily Star 1/24/16
Undergrads analyze some of Earth's oldest minerals
Arizona Daily Star 1/24/16
2015
- Scientist loves climate history — and her tattoo proves it
Arizona Daily Star 11/1/15 - New accessible, University of Arizona study abroad program takes budding geoscientists to Italy
Arizona Daily Wildcat 10/30/15 - UA Creates Accessible, Study-Abroad Geosciences Course
UANews 10/16/15 - UA Geoscientist Awarded Packard Fellowship
UANews 10/15/15 - Horn of Africa Drying Ever Faster as Climate Warms
UANews 10/9/15 - Científicos del CRILAR ascienden las cumbres del Velasco
El Diario del la Costa 9/10/15 - How Wind Sculpted Earth’s Largest Dust Deposit
UA News 9/1/15 - Partnership Connects Transfer Students, Geosciences
UA News 8/27/15 - William Dickinson, UA plate tectonics leader, dies at age 83
Arizona Daily Star 7/29/15 - William R. Dickinson, Major Figure in Plate Tectonics and Pacific Archaeology, Dies
UA News 7/27/15 - A River's Return: The Colorado Meets its Delta
Edible Baja Arizona 7-8/15 (Page 96) - A Shudder Through the Earth: Learning From Nepal
UA News 4/29/15 - Mysterious East Coast flooding was caused by ‘unprecedented’ surge in sea level
Washington Post, 2/25/15 - Sea Level Spiked for Two Years Along NE North America
UA News, 2/24/15 - Iceland ground rising connected to glaciers melting
The Daily Wildcat, 2/20/15 - Climate change is lifting Iceland – and it could mean more volcanic eruptions
The Guardian, 1/30/15 - Iceland Rises as Its Glaciers Melt From Climate Change
UA News, 1/29/15 - Early results from Colorado River water pulse promising for parched delta
Environmental Monitor, 1/13/15
2014
- Colorado River Delta Greener After Engineered Pulse of Water
UA News, 12/18/14 - Colorado River Delta water release worked, scientists say
Arizona Daily Star, 12/17/14 - Snail Shells Show High-rise Plateau Is Much Lower Than It Used to Be
Science Newsline, 9/22/14 - Ancient monsoons: Where the wind comes from
The Economist, 9/17/14 - Asian Monsoon Much Older Than Previously Thought
UA News, 9/15/14
UA Geoscientist Has $2.36 Million Grant to Study Southern Ocean’s Role in Climate Regulation
UA News, 9/12/14 - Southwest May Face Megadrought in this Century, UA Researchers Find
UA News, 8/27/14 - Dig confirms Clovis people hunted elephantlike gomphotheres
Arizona Daily Star, 8/4/14 - Meet the Gomphothere: UA Archaeologist Involved in Discovery of Bones of Elephant Ancestor
UA News, 7/14/14 - UA Geosciences Student Participates in NASA’s Women’s Mars Curiosity Day
UA News, 7/2/14 - Colorado River and Gulf of California finally meet
Arizona Daily Star, 5/16/14 - Monitoring the Pulse of the Colorado River
National Geographic.com, 4/5/14 - UA scientists help flood Colorado River delta
Daily Wildcat, 4/3/14 - UA scientists among many studying Colorado River water release
Arizona Daily Star, 3/25/14 - Colorado River deluge to bring wetlands back in Mexico
Arizona Daily Star, 3/25/14 - UA Scientists Lead Effort to Evaluate Unprecedented Environmental Flow to Colorado Delta
UA News, 3/24/14
U.S. and Mexico Unleash a Flood Into Colorado Delta
Science, 3/21/14
Water Returns to Arid Colorado River Delta
Nature, 3/20/14
Water Returns to Arid Colorado River Delta
Scientific American, 3/19/14 - Huge water pulse to bring Colorado river back from dead
New Scientist, 3/12/14 - Outreach to Parents Could Draw More HIspanics to Geosciences, Researchers Say
- UANews, 1/24/14
- U.S. Interior Department Honors UA, Partners
UAWork, 1/15/14
- Man-Made Flood Could Help Revive Colorado River Wetlands
Live Science 1/2/14
2013
- UA Doctorate Student First to Identify Minerals on Mars Surface
Arizona Public Media, 12/3/13 - UA Professor Leads Team on Evolution Quest
Houston Chronicle, 11/17/13 - Drilling for Clues to our Ancestors' Extinction
Arizona Daily Star, 11/9/13 - UA Student Finds "Hawaiian Beach Sand" on Mars
UANews, 10/23/13 - In the Bull's-Eye of Climate Change
UANews, 9/27/13 - Hints About Hominids
Arizona Daily Wildcat, 9/20/13 - Internship Allows Access to Dinosaur Bones
Arizona Public Media, 9/11/13 - UA Geoscientist Receives $4.78M to Study Links Between Human Evolution, Past Climate
UANews, 9/11/13 - UA Grad Co-Hosts New Show on The Science Channel
Arizona Daily Star, 9/5/13 - Central and Southwest Tibet, Various Ascents
American Alpine Club, 2013 - UA Mineral Museum Receives its Largest Donation of Minerals Ever
UA News, 7/25/13 - UA Researcher Studying the Formation of Antarctica
Institute of the Environment Newsletter, 4/29/13 - What Antarctica Looked Like Before the Ice
Scientific American.com, 3/7/13 - The Making of Antarctica's Hidden Fjords
UA News, 3/5/13 - Dino-sized Poop
Science News for Kids, 1/31/13 - How did Grand Canyon form? Flood Didn't Carve Giant Gorge, Geologist Says
Huffington Post, 1/11/13
2012
- Tibet's Rise to the Roof of the World
Arizona Daily Star, 11/25/12 - $2.88M to Fund Study of LInks Between Human Evolution, Past Climate
UA News, 10/22/12 - Droughts are Pushing Trees to the Limit
UA News, 9/7/12 - Curiosity Rover has Landed; Work begins for UA Scientists
Arizona Public Media, 8/14/12 - Taking a Robotic Geologist to Mars
UA News, 8/2/12 - 100 days of science: UA Lab is the Go-To Place for Precise Dating with Tiny Samples
Arizona Daily Star, 7/16/12 - Test Run on Yuma Desalination Plant a Success
Arizona Daily Star, 6/28/12 - Report: Cienega Unchanged After Desalting Plant Pilot Run
Yuma Sun, 6/26/12 - Sea Levels Rising Fast on U.S. East Coast
National Geographic Daily News, 6/26/12 - Mercury Mineral Evolution Tied to Supercontinent Assembly Over Last 3 Billion Years
Science Daily, 6/25/12 - Ciénega de Santa Clara Unchanged After Pilot Run of Yuma Desalting Plant
UA News, 6/25/12 - Sea Level Rise Accelerates Faster on U.S. East Coast
New Scientist, 6/24/12 - Carbon from Martian Meteorites not Evidence of Life
UA News, 5/24/12 - Saguaros, Emblems of the Desert, Now Claim Higher Ground
Arizona Daily Star, 4/20/12 - UA Grad Programs Among Top in US
Arizona Daily Wildcat, 3/28/12 - Earthweek to Present Research
Arizona Daily Wildcat, 3/27/12 - 10 UA Grad Programs Listed in Top 10 in the Nation
Arizona Daily Star, 3/22/12 - UA Graduate Programs Reach National Heights
UA News, 3/20/12 - Rising Seas Put Millions of Americans at Risk for Flooding
UA News, 3/14/12 - Rising Sea Level Could Threaten 3.7 M by 2100
Arizona Daily Star, 3/14/12 - Forum to Discuss Colorado River Environmental Projects
Yuma Sun, 3/4/12 - Bold New Graphics and Mineralogy
Elements, 2/12 - UA Museum Shows Off Arizona's Best Minerals
Arizona Daily Star, 1/26/12
2011
- World Class Research in Tucson: A Science City
Arizona Daily Star, 12/11/11 - UA Expert Gets Own Mineral: Anyone for...Bobdownsite?
Arizona Daily Star, 11/14/11 - Climate Change Leader Visits UA
Arizona Daily Wildcat, 11/4/11 - Tree-Ring Research Suggests Risk of Long Southwest Drought
Arizona Daily Star, 11/7/11 - Utah's Ancient Lake Bonneville Holds Clues to the West's Changing Climate
High Country News, 10/31/11 - UA Scientists Find Evidence of Roman Period Megadrought
UA News, 11/3/11 - Smooth Desert Boulders May Be Quakes' Work
The New York Times, 10/24/11 - Rocking Discovery: Boulders Rub Shoulders During Quakes
MSNBC.com, 10/11/11 - The Strange Rubbing Boulders of the Atacama
Physorg.com, 10/11/11 - The River's End/Divided Waters
International Innovation, 10/11 - Rising Oceans - Too Late to Turn the Tide?
UANews, 7/14/11 - A Warming Double-Whammy
Arizona Public Media, 7/11/11 - University of Arizona-led Research Sounds Alarm on Rising Sea Levels
Arizona Republic, 7/9/11 - Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
Discovery News, 7/7/11 - Different Magnitudes of Projected Subsurface Ocean Warming Around Greenland and Antarctica
Nature Geoscience, 7/3/11 - Warming Oceans Could Melt Ice Faster Than Expected
MSNBC.com, 7/3/11 - Arizona Caves: An Underground Archive of Climate Data
Green Valley News and Sun, 5/24/11 - Grad School Top in Nation
Daily Wildcat, 3/31/11 - Wind Can Keep Mountains From Growing
UA News, 3/28/11 - UA Climate Research: Big Stretch of US Coast at Risk of Rising Seas
Arizona Daily Star, 2/22/11 - UA Experts Determine Age of Book 'Nobody Can Read'
UA NEws, 2/9/11 - Putting the Dead to Work For Conservation Biology
UA News, 2/3/11
2010
- Living in, discovering the critizal zone
Arizona Daily Star, 11/14/10 - Cosmic Rays Detect Soil Moisture
U.S. News & World Report 11/16/10 - Tucson is a science city
Arizona Daily Star, 11/14/10 - Two UA Geoscientists Honored at Geological Society Meeting
UA News 10/28/10 - ‘Fossil’ Mountains Entombed by Ice
U.S. News & World Report 10/10/10 - Paul S. Martin, Pleistocene Extinctions Expert, Dies
UA News 9/16/10 - Glaciers Help High-Latitude Mountains Grow Taller
UA News 9/15/10 - UA teacher part of ads for climate scientists
Arizona Daily Star, 7/19/10 - Joaquin Ruiz Elected Geological Society President
UA News 7/15/10 - Ad campaign takes personal look at climate change scientists
USA TODAY, 7/13/2010 - A Scientist to Help Write International Climate Report
UANews, 7/1/10 - Researchers Call for 'No-Regrets' Approach to Climate Warming
UANews, 6/24/10 - Before the Mississippi, minerals show ancient rivers flowed west
ScienceNews, 6/7/10 - Out of the Woods for 'Ardi'
UANews, 5/27/10 - Outstanding UA faculty members are recognized
Arizona Daily Star, 5/21/10 - Brown Geologists Show Unprecedented Warming in Lake Tanganyika
Brown University News, 5/16/10 - Twentieth-Century Warming in Lake Tanganyika is Unprecedented
UA News, 5/17/10 - US-Mexico deal aims to protect wetland
Arizona Daily Star, 5/9/10 - Everything Is Illuminated
The Atlantic Magazine, 5/10 - Chile Earthquake: NSF Awards Rapid Response Research Grants
National Science Foundation, 5/3/10 - Desalter augments river, but what of wetland?
Waterblogged, 5/3/10 - Yuma desalination plant to start flowing
Arizona Daily Star, 5/1/10 - Unearthing Rock-Hard Evidence of Climate Change
Union of Concerned Scientists, 5/10 - UA-Led Team Studies Effect of Yuma Desalting Plant on Cienega de Santa Clara
UA News, 4/27/10 - Students Tumamoc Project
PBS Arizona Public Media, 4/26/10 - US News ranks UA geology No. 1
Arizona Daily Star, 4/17/10 - We rock in geology: How UA grad programs stack up in US News rankings
Arizona Daily Star, 4/16/10 - In UA exhibit, early man takes on mammoth
Arizona Daily Star, 4/13/10 - Climate affected human evolution
Arizona Daily Wildcat, 4/13/10 - Colorado River water rights
PRI's The World, 4/9/10 - Arizona's Mammoth Hunters - Out With a Whimper or a Bang?
UA News, 04/05/10 - UA's Earth Week aims to bring science to public
Arizona Star, 03/28/10 - Did Climate Change Drive Human Evolution?
NPR, 03/22/10 - Our desert was once dino habitat
Arizona Star, 01/28/10 - It’s Penguins by Day, Then Grading Papers under the Stars
The University of Arizona Alumnus / Winter 2010 - Southwest drying predicted by UA stalagmite study
Arizona Star, 01/25/10 - Cave Reveals Southwest's Abrupt Climate Swings During Ice Age
UA News, 01/21/10 - College of Science Announces 2010 Galileo Circle Fellows
Lo Que Pasa, 01/20/10
2009
- Signs of man, Ice Age beast found together in Mexico
USA Today, 11/08/09 - Geosciences Professor Celebrates Golden Anniversary
UA News, 11/09/09 - Prehistoric Clovis culture roamed southwards
NatureNews, 10/21/09 - UA manages to improve despite less state support
Arizona Star, 09/17/09 - Eyes Turn to Mexico as Drought Drags On
The New York Times, 09/13/09 - New study reaffirms Artic is warming
Arizona Star, 09/04/09 - Global Warming Could Forestall Ice Age
The New York Times, 09/03/09 - Slowly Slip-Sliding Faults Don't Cause Earthquakes
UA News, 08/31/09 - 'One Giant Leap for Mankind'…40 Years Later
UA News, 07/19/09 - State in 'bull's-eye' for change
Arizona Star, 06/17/09 - UA Scientist Warns Congressional Committee on Threats to Colorado River Basin
UA News, 05/29/09 - Transformation Produces School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Lo Que Pasa, 4/22/09 - Study Finds a Pattern of Severe Droughts in Africa
New York Times, 4/16/09 - Annual GeoDaze symposium starts Thursday
Tucson Citizen, 4/6/09 - Thirsty Cities, Dolphins and Dead Clams
New York Times, 4/6/09 - Experts look to balance desert-river flows
Arizona Republic, 03/29/09 - GeoDaze 2009 Features UA Student Research in the Earth Sciences
UA News, 03/27/09 - UA-Led Team Studying 'Baffling' Rock Formations
UA News, 03/26/09 - How Martian Winds Make Rocks Walk
UA News, 01/9/09
2008
- A Female Homo erectus Pelvis from Gona, Ethiopia
Science, 11/14/08 - New Homo Erectus Fossil Overturns Prior Thinking About Human Brain Evolution
UA News, 11/13/08 - Geological metaphors often miss nuances
Arizona Daily Star, 11/03/08 - Drier, Warmer Springs in U.S. Southwest Stem From Human-Caused Changes in Winds
UA News, 8/19/08 - CAP officials look for future water solutions
Arizona Daily Star/Arizona Republic/Associated Press 6/26/08 - ISPE Director Testifying Before Congress on Wednesday
UA News, 5/13/08 - Did a Significant Cool Spell Mark the Demise of Megafauna?
UA News, 4/22/08 - An Altar Beyond Olympus for a Deity Predating Zeus
The New York Times, 2/05/08 - Newly Discovered Active Fault Building New Islands Off Croatian Coast
UA News, 1/22/08
2007
- Cactus needles hold tales of past climates
Tucson Citizen, 11/09/07 - UA scientists have hand in awarding o Peace Prize
Tucson Citizen, 10/13/07 - UA researcher played lead role in Nobel-winning effort on warming
Arizona Daily Star, 10/13/07 - UA professor shares Nobel prize with Gore
Arizona Republic, 10/12/07 - Nobel Peace Prize Winner has UA Connections
UA News, 10/12/07 - Drought pushed ancient African migration
Arizona Daily Star, 10/11/07 - Megadrought Put the Squeeze on Our Ancestors
ScienceNow, 10/10/07 - UA scientist: Drought recovery 100,000 years ago spurred African exodus
Tucson Citizen, 10/09/07 - Mapping the Border: Retired UA geosciences prof Ed McCullough scours the desert to document migrant trails--and save lives
Tucson Weekly, 10/4/07 - Florida in danger as water rises: UA project creates maps designed to show effect of global warming, The Wildcat Online, 9/26/07
- A Family Vacations Amidst Changing Landscape
NPR Morning Edition, 7/9/07 - Clam shells reveal history of Colorado River delta
The Science Show, 5/26/07
- Tibetan Plateau Born Before Himalayas
Discovery News, 5/7/07 - Study predicts dust-bowl Southwest
The Arizona Star, 4/6/07 - Climate Change: Southwestern U.S. Becoming a Dustbowl
Inter Press Service, 4/5/07 - Conservationists work with water managers
SignOnSanDiego.com, 3/26/07 - Historical changes in sea level
The Science Show, 3/24/07 - Colombus's first settlement
The Science Show, 3/17/07 - Increased CO2 uptake in Antarctic waters
The Science Show, 3/10/07 - Vaquita Porpoise, and a Way of Life, Face Extinction
New York Times, 2/13/07 - UA Prof Part of International Climate Report
UA Web Site, 2/5/07 - Rivals come together on desalter amid water debate
The Arizona Republic, 1/28/07
2006
- Simple water fee could salvage ecosystems
The Arizona Republic, 8/21/06 - Dig Deeper
Conservation In Practice, July-Sept 2006, Vol. 7 No.3 - Studying Water Quality in Colorado River Delta's Cienega de Santa Clara
UANews, 7/24/06 - Small fee would be big boost to water, ecosystem
Tucson Citizen, 6/20/06 - UA Students and Alumni Receive Fulbright Scholarships
UANews, 5/5/2006 - Cranium Fossil Find Thrills Scientists
Newhouse News Service, 4/18/06 - UA mineral-ID device bound for space
Arizona Daily Star newspaper, 4/17/2006 - UA Radiocarbon dates Help Verify Coptic Gospel of Judas is Genuine
UANews, 4/6/06
2005
- Predicting Where Flooding Will Occur in the West
UANews, 9/29/05 - Growth Secrets of Alaska's Mysterious Field of Lakes
UANews, 6/27/2005 - Analysis of the Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake Reveals Longest Fault Rupture Ever
Kansas City InfoZine, 5/23/2005 - Tucson Trembled when Sumatra Shook
Tucson Citizen newspaper, 05/21/2005 - In Wake of Tsunami, Earthquake Risk may be Underestimated
Arizona Daily Star newspaper, 5/21/2005 - Research on Sumatran Earthquakes Uncovers New Mysteries about Workings of Earth
PhysOrg.com, 5/19/2005 - In Memoriam: Paul E. Damon
UANews, 04/22/2005 - Overpeck Named Guggenheim Fellow
- UA prof wins engineering honor
Tucson Citizen newspaper, 2/16/2005 Lo Que Pasa, 04/21/2005 - UA Geoscientist Elected to National Academy of Engineering
UANews, 02/14/2005
2004
- Geological Demolition Derby
UANews, 11/16/2004 - The Cost of a River
Alumnus, Fall 2004 - Nanotubes Harden Up Under Pressure
Nanotechnology, 9/23/2004 - UA Geologists Closer to Predicting Volcanic Eruptions
Arizona Daily Wildcat, 9/22/2004 - Crystal Palace (PDF)
Science, Vol 305, 8/20/2004 - Fish Earstones and Martian Polar Wrinkles
Tucson Citizen newspaper, 7/6/2004 - Hidden Cost of Colorado River Diversions is $2.4 billion annually
UANews, 6/10/2004 - Earstones Tell Fishes' Tale in Colorado River Estuary
UANews, 6/08/2004 - Martian Mystery Explained
UANews, 4/07/2004 - Clues to the past lie in lake of stars
The Guardian, 9/20/2003 - Learning from the Present: Fresh bones could provide insight into Earth's patchy fossil record
Science News, 9/19/2003