News: Department of Geoscience

Libby Hausrath and student Seth Grainey working by microscope in lab.
Campus News |

UNLV research could help assess landing locations and excavation sites for NASA’s 2020 rover mission to Mars.

senior Amber Turner and alumna Lisa Danielson
Research |

UNLV geoscientists and students like undergraduate Amber Turner (left, with alumna Lisa Danielson) are studying our planet and others to understand the impacts humans are having on Earth and the possibilities of life beyond it.

Jonathan Baker and colleagues examine stalagmite in a cave
Campus News |

UNLV Ph.D. candidate’s research in Russia challenges widely held understanding of past climate history; study appears in latest issue of top journal Nature Geoscience.

Closeup of books
Research |

From professional reasons to personal connections, faculty across campus share why they’re fond of certain works they penned.

senior Amber Turner and alumna Lisa Danielson
Research |

UNLV undergraduate and NASA intern Amber Turner shares her remarkable research journey, which may someday lead to human civilizations on other planets.

Simon Jowitt
People |

This economic geologist talks about being in a state where the mining industry thrives and about the difficulty of getting his 6-foot 4-inch frame into a running helicopter on rough ground.

Lisa Danielson overlooks the lobby of the Beam Engineering building
People |

The career of Lisa Danielson, the Graduate College Alumna of the Year, took off like a rocket after UNLV.

artwork from Inquiry: The Art of Scientific Discovery
Arts and Culture |

“Inquiry: The Art of Scientific Discovery” shows the beauty of science and the artistic side of even the most lab-bound of scientists.

Slide of a Martian meteorite
Arts and Culture |

"Inquiry: The Art of Scientific Discovery" brings College of Sciences together with UNLV Galleries for an exhibit of images and objects related to UNLV research.

Geoscientist Josh Bonde works in the paleontology lab
Research |

The improved facility will open to the public Oct. 8.

Amy L. Brock-Hon
Campus News |

Advice from Amy L. Brock-Hon, College of Sciences Alumna of the Year

Elisabeth Hausrath
People |

Geoscience professor Elisabeth (Libby) Hausrath honored for early career accomplishments; research focuses on geochemistry, chemical interactions and soil-forming processes on Mars.