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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 further questions, please
contact the department today.
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Recent Publications of the Paper Presents the First Successful Applications of the UV and CO2 Geoscience faculty members Michael Wells and Terry Spell, graduate student Tonia Arriola, and research scientist Kathleen Zanetti, in a recent paper in Tectonics (reprint), present the first successful applications of the UV and CO2 laser-probes to 40Ar/39Ar in situ dating of fibrous strain fringes. These results demonstrate feasibility of the method for future application, and document a previously unrecognized episode of mid-Cretaceous synconvergent gravitational spreading parallel to the Mesozoic Sevier orogenic belt, with implications toward understanding the driving forces for orogen-parallel extension in mountain belts worldwide.
Graduate Student, Mandy Williams, Wins the Farouk El-Baz GSA Student Research Award Mandy Williams (Ph.D. Student) has won the Farouk El-Baz GSA Student Research Award for her work on Biological Soil Crusts in the Mojave Desert. Her dissertation research will identify environmental factors controlling biological soil crusts within the Mojave Desert and attempt to model their distribution effectively. She will employ a novel, interdisciplinary approach (combining biology, ecology, soil science, hydrology, statistics, chemistry, geomorphology, GIS, and remote sensing) to investigate and model a complex, natural system. This work will examine the ecology of primitive organisms under extreme conditions and will have implications for understanding basic requirements of life. The Geological Society of America (GSA) Foundation has established the “Farouk El-Baz Student Award” to encourage and promote desert research in the broadest sense.
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•Sign up today to participate in UNLV's Geology Field Camp •The Department of Geoscience is pleased to offer Fay and Jack Ross Family Graduate Scholarships for exceptional applicants to our PhD program. Visit the Fay and Jack Ross Family Graduate Scholarship page to learn more about this opportunity. •Business is booming in the Geosciences! Read the article found in Science Careers, a publication of the journal Science. •The Fall 2008 Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) was held December 15-19, in San Francisco, CA. Faculty and Student Submissions •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
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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 |
