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Monday, April 13, 2020
»Scott Burns, geology faculty emeritus, presented a talk on “Dynamic Geological History of the Columbia Gorge: Tale of Two Floods” at the first Virtual OMSI Science Pub on March 31.
Monday, April 6, 2020
»Grants support collaborative water research between PSU and USGS
Monday, March 9, 2020
»Scott Burns, Geology faculty emeritus, gave the keynote talk titled “Geology and Soils of the Silver Falls State Park and the History of the Oregon State Soil” at the annual meeting of the Oregon Soil Science Society at the Silver Falls State Park.
Monday, March 2, 2020
»John Bershaw, Geology faculty, presented “An Integrated Feasibility Study of Reservoir Thermal Energy Storage in Portland, Oregon, USA” at the Stanford Geothermal Conference.
»Adam Booth, Geology faculty, was awarded $7,466 from the USGS-PSU Partnership for “Deciphering the Influence of Surface-Water and Groundwater Exchange on Active Slow-Moving Landslide Velocity.”
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
»Exploring Oregon's volcanic heritage
Monday, February 24, 2020
»Martin Streck, Geology faculty, received a three-year $325,769 grant from the National Science Foundation to study magma dynamics leading to the lavas of the Columbia River Basalt Group.
Thursday, January 23, 2020
»Oregon's water resources at center of revamped PSU, USGS partnership
Monday, November 11, 2019
»Scott Burns, emeritus Geology faculty, gave a talk titled “Geology of the Columbia Gorge and the Effects of the 2017 Forest Fire on Landslides” at the National Meeting of the Highway Geology Symposium in Portland, Oct. 21-24.
Monday, November 4, 2019
»Andrew Fountain, Geology faculty, Kelly Gleason, Environmental Science and Management faculty, and Paul Loikith, Geography faculty, appeared on KGW’s “Straight Talk: Climate Change in the Northwest” with Laural Porter.
Monday, October 14, 2019
»Scott Burns, Geology faculty, was given the award of Honorary Member at the annual meeting of the Association of Engineering Geologists in Asheville, N.C., Sept.19. One Honorary Member award is given each year.
Monday, September 30, 2019
»John Bershaw, Geology faculty, co-authored a paper, “Volcanic Glass as a Proxy for Cenozoic Elevation and Climate in the Cascade Mountains, Oregon, USA” published in the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Vol. 381, pp. 157-167, Sept. 1.
Monday, April 8, 2019
»John Bershaw, Geology faculty, authored a paper titled “The Isotopic Composition of Meteoric Water Along Altitudinal Transects in the Tian Shan of Central Asia” published in Chemical Geology.
Monday, April 1, 2019
»Scott Burns, Geology emeritus faculty, co-authored "Classification and Sudden Departure Mechanism of High-speed Landslides Caused by the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, China" published in Environmental Earth Sciences, Vol. 78, pp. 125-140, Springer-Nature, 201
Monday, February 18, 2019
»Alex Ruzicka, Geology faculty, and former students and PSU graduates Katherine Armstrong and Kristy Schepker, as well as researchers Richard Greenwood and Ian Franchi (Open University, Milton Keynes, England), authored a paper titled "Petrology and Oxygen
Monday, February 4, 2019
»Scott Burns, Geology emeritus faculty, gave the keynote address in French for the 50th anniversary celebration of the French National Group of the International Association of Engineering Geologists in Paris, France, Nov. 26. Burns is the international pr
»Alex Ruzicka and Richard Hugo, Geology faculty, were awarded $356,501 from NASA for a grant titled, "The Deformation-Heat Connection: Evaluating Hot Accretion, Lithification Mechanisms, and Heat Sources in Ordinary Chondrites.”
Monday, January 28, 2019
»Scott Burns, Geology emeritus faculty, presented a paper, "The Importance of Soils in the Terroir of Wine in North America - An Example from Oregon," at the International Soil Conference sponsored by the Soil Science Society of America held in San Diego,
»Scott Burns, Geology emeritus faculty, presented a talk on "30 Years of Radon Susceptibility Maps for Portland, Oregon, USA: A Great Success" at the national meeting of the Geological Society of America in Indianapolis, Nov. 6.
»Scott Burns, Geology emeritus faculty, presented the keynote talk as president of the International Association of Engineering Geologists at the 50th Anniversary of the French National Group of Engineering Geologists and the Environment in Paris, France,