A new paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets describes several manganese-rich features in sandstones of the Murray Formation on Gale crater Mars. Read More
Zackry Stevenson was awarded funding from Itasca Grad Research ‘Director’s Fellowship’. His project is “Influence of Molybdenum on Nitrogen Fixation in Mo-Limited Deming Lake.” He… Read More
A new article in The Conversation describes the Geo-bio-chem group’s work at Deming Lake in Itasca State Park. Deming Lake is chemically layered, much… Read More
PhD student Michelle Chamberlain was selected to receive a competitive 3-year fellowship from NASA. The Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology… Read More
Zackry Stevenson recently authored an ISU Extension publication with Mia Riddley and Betsy Swanner about rusty soils and filmy water. It describes some environmental occurrence… Read More
Check out the new Wikipedia page on Deming Lake, drafted by Liza Bryant-Tapper, Lauren Netz, Pratik Poudel, and Heeyeon Sun. They were all students… Read More
Zak was selected as a NASA fellowship awardee at Iowa State University from the NASA Iowa Space Grant Consortium (ISGC). This fellowship will aid his… Read More
A story on our research project on Arco, Budd, Deming, and Josephine lakes in Itasca State Park was featured in the publication “Upstream“. The… Read More
Dr. Swanner’s Microbial Ecology course (MICRO/BIOL/GEOL 487/587) drafted Wikipedia articles as part of a Wiki Education assignment. Topics were environmentally-significant microbial species. Below are… Read More
Elizabeth Swanner is part of a multi-institution award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to form an Interdisciplinary Consortium on Astrobiology Research… Read More
Recent alum Gabbie Ledesma (Geology ’20) won the BEST Undergraduate oral presentation at the virtual North Central sectional meeting of the Geological Society of America. Read More
Recent alum Gabbie Ledesma (Geology ’20) presented her undergraduate research at the virtual North Central sectional meeting of the Geological Society of America. Gabbie’s presentation,… Read More
Graduate students Tania Leung and Micah Fatka shifted a symposium they were planning to an awesome online event. Click here to read an article… Read More
Gabbie Ledesma (’20), a geology major, has been awarded an Iowa Space Grant Consortium undergraduate research fellowship for 2019-2020. This will provide her will… Read More
