News

May 16, 2022

Hunga eruption atmospheric waves: Prof. Robin Matoza, Dr. Alex Iezzi, Hugo Ortiz, and Rodrigo de Negri in international collaboration to analyze exceptional multi-technology observations of this extraordinary event in the modern digital record. 

May 3, 2022

Professor Toshiro Tanimoto has been named a Gugenheim Foundation Fellow

March 29, 2022

Emeriti Frank Spera and Alumna Melissa Scruggs were featured in UCSB's The Current.

March 11, 2022

Congratulations to Francisco Apen, who has accepted a Presidential Postdoc offer from Princeton University! 

November 1, 2021

MSA Members who have contributed significantly to the advancement of mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, petrology, or allied sciences and whose scientific contribution utilized mineralogical studies or data, may be designated as Fellows

September 30, 2021

Professor Emeritus Art Sylvester’s 1988 paper “Strike-slip faults” was selected in June 2021 as one of 48 “Must-Read” papers by the Tectonics and Structural Geology Division of the European Geosciences Union. 

September 17, 2021

Emeritus Jim Boles was recently featured in The Santa Barbara Independent

September 15, 2021

Kristin Morell has been awarded the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award for early-career faculty

July 15, 2021

Brac Hacker has been given the Structural Geology and Tectonics Career Contribution Award

July 9, 2021

William S Wise died Tuesday, June 29 after a long bout with cancer.