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Assistant Professor Rita Parai and graduate student Judy Zhang got a glimpse of Earth’s history by tracking infinitesimal levels of noble gases in volcanic rocks.

The Microanalysis Society has awarded the Macres Award for the Best Instrumentation/Software Paper to the paper Paul Carpenter presented at the Microscopy and Microanalysis 2023 meeting.

A common mineral in red soils tends to lock away trace metals over time, according to WashU research

Paul Byrne and Rebecca Hahn map 85,000 volcanoes on Venus

Eos article discussing a study co-authored by Jeff Catalano and Greg Ledingham

Graduate student Madison Hughes has named a Martian canyon Sakarya Vallis after a river in Turkey.

New research from Earth and Planetary Sciences uses a previously unstudied mineral to measure rates of volcanic activity.

Graduate student Greg Ledingham studies lead oxides in water and was awarded a prestigious NSF fellowship last year.

NASA recently opened lunar samples for a new generation of study, including work by WashU researchers.

Barickman, a grad student in Earth and planetary sciences, taught elementary school students Earth science in Honduras

New research from Jeff Catalano and graduate student Kaushik Mitra on oxidation on Mars' surface

Ocean bottom seismic data from the Mariana Trench show that up to three times more water is going into the Earth’s mantle at subduction zones than previously thought.

Tonga is a seismologists’ paradise, and not just because of the white-sand beaches. The subduction zone off the east coast of the archipelago racks up more intermediate-depth and deep earthquakes than any other subduction zone, where one plate of Earth’s lithosphere dives under another, on the planet.

Doug Wiens, professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, and Weisen Shen, a postdoctoral research associate with Wiens, installed a seismometer to investigate the Midcontinent Rift and presented seismic images of the rift at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA) Sept. 25-28.

Martin J. Pratt, research scientist having recently completed my PhD at Washington University in St. Louis, software developer for the Fossett Laboratory for Virtual Planetary Exploration at WashU, embraced augmented reality platforms in order to display complex concepts within the Earth Sciences.