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Welcome to the Department of Geoscience. Our mission is to serve the needs of the State of Nevada by being an active participant in the national and international geoscience community and by training professional geoscientists for private and governmental employment in the region. We are an active and growing department conducting exciting research and
providing our students with outstanding opportunities to broaden their
minds and careers. On these pages you will find information regarding our
teaching, research and community service. If you have more questions, please
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Geoscience Assistant Professor Ganjing Jiang and colleagues, in a recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (reprint), test the proposed linkages between redox changes in the oceans and biological evolution. Their study shows that pulsed oxidation is coupled with the development and diversification of multicellular life, in a transitional period between regimes in which carbon in the worlds oceans was dominated by dissolved organic carbon, to dominated by dissolved inorganic carbon. The research has important implications for the relationships between oxygenation of the world’s oceans and biological evolution.
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 Dr. Vic Baker, University of Arizona, will be presenting "Megafloods on Earth and Mars" as part of the Inaugural David L. Weide Memorial Lecture Series. The lecture will be held at 4:00pm on November 19th, Lilly Fong Geoscience Building, RM 102.
•Seminar Schedule-Fall 2008 •ExxonMobil Interviews with Chuck Calavan, recruiter, will be taking place on November 5-7, 2008. Application Materials are due by September 24, 2008. Contact Maria Figueroa in the main office, or at maria.figueroa@unlv.edu to sign up for an interview slot. •Read the Spring 2008 Newsletter! •Sign up today to participate in UNLV's Geology Field Camp •The 2008 Joint Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA) and the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) was held in Houston, Texas on October 5-9. Faculty and Student Submissions •The 3rd Annual GeoSymposium, to showcase student research within the Geoscience Department, was held on April 18-19, 2008. Visit our GeoSymposium Website to learn more about this annual event. •The UNLV Geoscience Department hosted the Spring 2008 Joint Meeting of the Cordilleran and Rocky Mountain sections of the Geological Society of America: March 19-21, 2008. Faculty & Student GSA Submissions (Talks & Posters)
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Fong Geoscience Building (LFG) 104B Phone: 702.895.3262; FAX 702.895.4064 Email: geodept@unlv.edu |
Department of Geoscience University of Nevada, Las Vegas 4505 S. Maryland Parkway Las Vegas, NV 89154-4010 |
