Department News

Ken Macdonald elected AAAS Fellow

Updated: 04/24/2013 - 13:55

Professor emeritus Ken Macdonald has been elected a fellow of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Susannah Porter receives Distinguished Teaching Award

Updated: 04/12/2013 - 20:59

Professor Susannah Porter has been chosen to receive this year's UCSB Distinguished Teaching Award for her outstanding teaching and mentoring during the decade that she has been at UCSB.

Valentine awarded Leopold Leadership Fellowship

Updated: 01/30/2013 - 15:59

Professor David Valentine has been awarded a 2013 Leopold Leadership Fellowship.

"Oil: A Three Letter Word", Onward California Tour

Updated: 01/30/2013 - 17:37

David Valentine Professor, Earth Science, UC Santa Barbara explains why he is interested in hydrocarbon seeps.

Toshiro Tanimoto honored at Fall AGU meeting

Updated: 12/10/2012 - 23:33

Professor Toshiro Tanimoto was honored as a newly elected AGU Fellow at the 2012 Fall Meeting of American Geophysical Union. Toshiro's selection came in recognition of his fundamental contributions to seismology that have deepened our understanding of mantle dynamics and solid-fluid Earth interactions.

Department Events

Speakers Club: Doug Wilson
Event Date: May 30, 2013 - 2:00pm

Douglas Wilson will give a talk at Speakers Club entitled "Drilling to gabbro in intact ocean crust."

Speakers Club: Erin Burkhart, David Wampler & Eric White
Event Date: May 23, 2013 - 2:00pm

Erin Burkhart, David Wampler and Eric White will each give a talk at Speakers Club. Erin's talk is entitled "Investigating the Seismic Nucleation Phase of Large Earthquakes Using Teleseismic Data," David's talk is entitled "Tectonic Geomorphology of the Gaviota Coast" and Eric's talk is entitled "Variation in Indian summer monsoon intensity during the penultimate interglacial."

PhD Defense: Jesse Mosolf
Event Date: May 22, 2013 - 1:00pm

Jesse Mosolf will present his PhD Defense entitled "Stratigraphy, structure and geochronology of the Abanico Formation in the Principal Cordillera, central Chile: Evidence of protracted volcanism and implications for Andean tectonics" on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 1:00 PM in Room 2725 of Physical Sciences Building - South.

Speakers Club: Pete Sadler
Event Date: May 16, 2013 - 2:00pm

Dr. Peter Sadler of UC Riverside will give a talk entitled "Paleobiological Time-Lines As A Traveling Salesman Problem: Results for End-Permian And End-Ordovician Extinctions" at Speakers Club.

Speakers Club: Timothy Becker and Bryan Norman
Event Date: May 9, 2013 - 2:00pm

Timothy Becker and Bryan Norman will each give a talk at Speakers Club. Tim's talk is entitled "Developing new tracers to determine groundwater travel time near managed aquifer recharge sites" and Bryan's talk is entitled "Structural Evolution of the central Schell Creek Range, White Pine County, NV."