Geosciences Professor Lianxing Wen Identifies Location of North Korean Nuclear Test

A new study by Geosciences Professor Lianxing Wen and graduate student Hui Long has determined the location of North Korea’s 2009 test site with a geographic precision of 140 meters (153 yards).

Undergraduate Geoscience Majors Honored at Academic Achievement Banquet

On October 23rd, undergraduate Geoscience majors Niya Grozeva, Kei Shimizu, and Lily Wu were honored at Stony Brook's Academic Achievement Banquet.

Increasing Diversity in Geosciences

A proposal headed up by Gil Hanson, Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Geosciences, has been funded by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Geosciences in the amount of $1.5 million for five years.

Timothy Glotch, Geosciences Assistant Professor- science team member

for the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment on board the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which successfully entered lunar orbit on June 23. LRO is the first U.S. mission to the Moon in more than a decade.

John Parise to receive Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award 2009-2010
John's work involving research and development in X-ray and neutron scattering has provided leadership across the crystallography, mineral physics, geosciences, and solid-state chemistry research communities.

John Parise selected to Co-Direct the Joint Photon Sciences Institute (JPSI)
This new Institute represents a partnership between the US Department of Energy and New York State.

Geosciences researchers discover form of sodium that becomes transparent at high pressure
New Geosciences faculty member Artem Oganov and research fellow Andriy Lyakhov have discovered an exotic phase of the element sodium that becomes transparent at high pressure.