The sun shone brightly for graduation!

The joint workshop on the Isle of Arran with researchers from the Institut de Physique du Globe in Paris (IPGP) and School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of St Andrews made the headlines of the Arran Banner  

A team of international scientists, led by the University of St Andrews (Dr Aubrey Zerkle, School of Earth & Environmantal Sciences), has demonstrated a new source of food for early life on the planet...more The study was supported by Natural Environment Research...

Third year BSc (Hons) Geology student Charlotte Barlow has won second prize in the Alex Richardson Award.  This is a remarkable acheivement as the Alex Richard Award is given by the Spanish Dept to student’s whose research elevates some aspect of Spain and/or Spanish...

Special congratulations to Abigail for taking first place in the regional Mining Institute of Scotland's Young Person's Lecture competition held in St Andrews yesterday.  Abigail will be going to London for UK finals.  Congratulations also go to Lot Koopmans &...

A big congratulations to Dr Paul Savage who has been awarded one of the University’s four Teaching Excellence Awards for 2018-19.

A hearty congratulations to Eloise Littley, a SEES 3rd year postgraduate research student, who was selected as one of only six Early Career Science Ambassadors for the European Association of Geochemistry.

Following the University of St Andrews' Geological Society AGM held on Tuesday 12 March 2019, new committee members for 2019-2020 are: President: Lucy Mathieson Vice-President: Grace Nielson Treasurer: Abi Robinson Secretary: Jen Neil Publicity Rep: Kelly Varnell...

Many congratulations to our 3rd year student Stella Linnekogel, who was a runner up of “The Ivor Tupper Fund of the Geologists’ Association” award.

Petroleum Experts Ltd #Petex has kindly donated 10 licences of the MOVE software suite to #SEES at University of St Andrews, the commercial equivalent of which is £1,308,000!

Antarctic Ocean CO2 helped end the ice age A team of scientists has shown that rapid CO2 release from the ocean around Antarctica helped end the last ice age. The findings published in Nature (Thursday 25 October), found that CO2 was stored in the deep Southern Ocean...

The sun was shining brightly for graduation!

Decades of careful geologic study by Russian geologists (and our own Professor Tony Prave) identified 2-billion-year-old rocks that contained evidence for minerals formed from the evaporation of ancient seawater. These rocks are in the Karelia region of Russia and...

On Wednesday 31 January 2018, staff from Schools of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Geography and Sustainable Development joined Donald Herd and Colin Cameron in celebrating 40 years service each. Donald has been with EES for 40 years and Colin has 40 years within the University.