11/2/2009 - Eight College of Geosciences faculty and staff members were recognized for their achievements Thursday, October 29th, at an annual college reception in the Halbouty Building. Dean Kate Miller presented the 2009 Dean’s Distinguished Achievement Awards. Association of Former Students (AFS) Director of Campus Programs Kelli Hutka, ’97, assisted in presenting the 2009 AFS College Level Teaching Awards.

Geosciences Researchers Receive $3.3 Million from Federal Stimulus

10/26/2009 - Researchers from all four of the College of Geosciences’ academic departments received funds from the National Science Foundation (NSF), through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), a stimulus package passed earlier this year to reinvigorate the U.S. economy.

DiMarco Receives $3.7 Million Grant to Study Gulf Dead Zone

10/20/09 – Oceanographer Steve DiMarco of Texas A&M University, a leading authority on the Gulf of Mexico’s “dead zone,” and his team of researchers have been awarded $725,467 for the first year of a five-year, $3.72 million project that seeks to better understand and predict where and when the dead zone will happen each year. This new project builds on six prior years of funding.

Geoscientists Travel to China for Conferences and Collaboration

10/16/09 - Dr. Kate Miller, dean of the College of Geosciences at Texas A&M University, will travel to China this week (October 19-24) with Geosciences Executive Associate Dean Luis Cifuentes, Oceanography Department Head Piers Chapman and five Oceanography faculty members to meet with colleagues at Ocean University of China in Qingdao. Miller, Cifuentes and Oceanography Professor Mahlon C. Kennicutt II will also attend the 2009 China-US Relations Conference being held in Beijing October 21-23.

International Group of Scientists Converge at IODP

10/16/09 - The headquarters of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) at Texas A&M University is a hotbed of activity this week and next (Oct. 12 to 23) as 35 scientists from around the world converge here to edit a final science report and take away over 30,000 ocean sediment samples from core drilled from below the seafloor of the equatorial Pacific. The scientists will use these samples to determine changes in the Earth’s climate over the last 50 million years, as well as the history of the Antarctic ice cap.

Geosciences Celebrates Scholarship and Fellowship Donors and Recipients

10/12/09 - The College of Geosciences at Texas A&M University held its annual scholarship and fellowship banquet at Pebble Creek Country Club on Friday, October 9, 2009. Nearly 250 geosciences students, scholarship and fellowship donors, faculty, and staff attended with their guests. Read More

Geosciences Launches “Road to Discovery” Recruitment Website

09/23/09 - High school students interested in the geosciences have a new tool to help them narrow down their list of choices. The College of Geosciences recently launched a new website designed specifically for prospective students: The Road to Discovery (roadtodiscovery.tamu.edu).

Oceanographer Shows Possible Link Between 1918 El Niño and Flu Pandemic

by Keith Randall

09/14/09 - Research conducted at Texas A&M University casts doubts on the notion that El Niño has been getting stronger because of global warming and raises interesting questions about the relationship between El Niño and a severe flu pandemic 91 years ago. The findings are based on analysis of the 1918 El Niño, which the new research shows to be one of the strongest of the 20th century.

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