Department of Geoscience News
Geoscience is an all-encompassing term used to refer to the earth sciences. The Department of Geosciences offers programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels where students can learn about topics such as earth processes; the origin and evolution of our planet; the chemical and physical properties of minerals, rocks, and fluids; the structure of our mobile crust; the history of life; and the human adaptation to earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, and floods.
Current Geoscience News
This graduate student is putting her expertise to work on protecting Southern Nevada's most important water supply.
The College of Sciences Alumna of the Year and NASA planetary geologist fosters internship opportunities for UNLV's next generation of scientists.
A selection of prominent headlines featuring UNLV experts from July and August.
Created in honor of longtime staff member, a new geoscience scholarship celebrates 50 years of change while helping the next generation of scientists.
The newest Rebel grads reflect on their time at UNLV and share what the future holds.
UNLV’s commencement tradition highlights exceptional students who embody the highest level of academic excellence and community involvement.
Geoscience In The News
Less than 1% of NASA’s workforce are astronauts. The majority of professionals have carved out unique — if less public — roles supporting our nation’s space goals. Here are some of NASA's most interesting earthbound personnel.
Minerals in the space rock provide hints about the early history of the red planet, when water was flowing on the surface.
Blasted off Mars by a giant impact long ago, the meteorite Teghaza 001 eventually fell to Earth in the Sahara Desert. Now it’s revealing previously hidden chapters of Mars’s deep past
The nonprofit Grand Canyon Trust says its new analysis of monitoring wells in the Grand Canyon region shows wells within a nearby uranium mine have unusually high arsenic levels compared to other groundwater sources in the area.
Pinyon Plain Mine representatives argue that the toxic metal is naturally occurring, not contamination from the mining operation.
Arizona recently raised an arsenic limit at one monitoring well at Pinyon Plain Mine, where scientists are still trying to understand how water moves underground.
