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  • August 2022 - “We welcome the arrival of Dr. Erin Berns-Herrbold (Water Science) to the UW-Green Bay Faculty. Dr. Berns-Herrboldt will have some teaching appointments that overlap with the Geoscience curriculum, including The Geochemistry of Natural Waters and The Soil Environment.”
  • August 16, 2022 – “Dr. John Luczaj leads a geology hike for the Neville Public Museum’s Geology Club at Fonferek’s Glen County Park (Brown County).”
  • July 2022 – “Dr. John Luczaj and 2 UW-Green Bay students visit Trinity University for cooperative research and to examine filed relationships in Cambrian microbialites.”
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  • June 4, 2022 – “Dr. John Luczaj leads a geology hike at Bayshore County Park for Niagara Escarpment Resource Network as part of National Trails Day.”
  • March and June 2022 – “Dr. John Luczaj and 3 UW-Green Bay students visit the Laser Ablation ICP-MS laboratory at Stony Brook University to analyzed and age date carbonate minerals from south China as part of an NSF-funded research project.”
  • May 2022 – “Fourteen students and 2 faculty participated in the 4-day Geoscience Field Trip course this spring to the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan to look at the Midcontinent Rift System.” group-pictures
  • April 22, 2022 (Earth Day)– “UW-Green Bay Geoscience student Logan Maedke gets statewide attention for his work combining Art & Design with Karst Geology to help students and members of the public better understand how groundwater flows through cave and karst systems. The models created have been used in K-12 outreach, UW-Extension Outreach, and in classroom demonstrations.”
  • January 2022 – Two students won the Fall 2021 Neville Public Museum Geology Club Scholarships. Neda Mobasher (Geoscience) and Angel Henschel (ES&P Graduate Program, 2021 Geoscience Graduate).
  • January 2022 – Dr. John Luczaj is coauthor on a new publication from the Geological Society of America (Special Paper 555) titled “Geology of Chief Joseph Pass, Wyoming: Crest of Rattlesnake Mountain anticline and escape path of the Eocene Heart Mountain slide.”

  • October 2021 – Dr. Kelly Deuerling presents a poster at the Geological Society of America Connects 2021 Conference in Portland Oregon. Insights into Groundwater Flow Paths in an Intensively Managed Critical Zone in Nebraska.

  • October 2021 – Geoscience student Neda Mobasher presents a poster at the Geological Society of America Connects 2021 Conference in Portland Oregon. A Calcite Investigation on the Great Bank of Guizhou in the Nanpanjiang Basin, South China.

  • August 2021 – Dr. John Luczaj is coauthor on a new publication in GSA Bulletin detailing the timing and conditions of calcite formation in faults of the Dead Sea Transform System.

  • Welcome New Lecturer William Jacobson (Geoscience, Manitowoc).

  • July – August 2021 – Dr. John Luczaj co-leads a 4-day field conference for the Michigan Earth Science Teachers Association in Iron Mountain, Michigan.

  • July 2021 – Dr. John Luczaj receives USGS EDMAP grant for student mapping in Door County, Wisconsin. The project will support graduate student Patrick Brodhagen (Geoscience 2020 grad.) to map the depth to bedrock in southern Door County.

  • July 2021 – Dr. Shawn Malone is coauthor on a new publication in GSA Today that investigates a long-lived strike-slip fault system in the Canadian Arctic.

  • July 2021 – Dr. Kelly Deuerling travels to Nebraska to conduct tracer and slug tests in monitoring wells at the Glacier Creek Preserve.

  • July 2021 – Dr. Shawn Malone travels to the Bighorn Mountains to map the Skull Ridge Quadrangle and study Archean granites. This suite of rocks will provide a foundation for future student research.

  • July 2021 – Dr. Shawn Malone is coauthor of a new publication in Geoscience Frontiers titled “On the Cratonization of the Arabian-Nubian Shield: Constraints from gneissic granitoids in south Eastern Desert, Egypt.”

  • September 2020 through August 2021 – Dr. Kelly Deuerling conducts water quality research with student Kyle Chaudoir on the Ahnapee River System (Door County).

  • June 2021 – Dr. Shawn Malone is coauthor of a new publication in Geotectonics titled “Evolution of the Seven Devils Volcanic Arc and Period of Amalgamation with the North American Craton Based on Zircon U/Pb Geochronology and Hf Isotope Geochemistry of Intrusions in the Seven Devils Mountains, Western Idaho (USA).”

  • May 2021 – Dr. John Luczaj receives 3-year NSF Grant to study dolomite in China.

  • May 2021 - Dr. Kelly Deuerling presents “In Pursuit of Dust: The Role of Wind in Sustaining Antarctic Ecosystems” at the Neville Public Museum Geology Club.

  • May 2021 - Dr. Kelly Deuerling presents Polar Water Towers and High Latitude Water Changes at the UW-Green Bay Lifelong Learning Institute.

  • March 2021 - Dr. Shawn Malone presents “Small Minerals, Big Stories: Using Zircon to Study Earth’s History” at the Neville Public Museum Geology Club.

  • April 2021 – Dr. Kelly Deuerling and student Kyle Chaudoir (Water Science/Env. Sci.) presented “Monitoring the effects of a drawdown on an anthropogenic reservoir of the Ahnapee River” at the UW System Symposium for Undergraduate Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity” (Online/Whitewater University).

  • November 2020 – UW-Green Bay Geoscience Faculty receive recognition for developing virtual field trips during Covid-19.

  • Fall 2020 – Welcome New Faculty Dr. Shawn Malone (Geoscience) and Dr. Kelly Deuerling (Geoscience and Water Science).