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.

The Research in Progress (RiP) meeting of the Geochemistry Group, a special interest group of The Geological Society of London and The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, is the only annual meeting held in the UK with geochemistry as its sole theme. We...

Congratulations to Maaret who completed her MLitt Management whilst working full time - an amazing achievement, well done!

December 7th, 2017, marked the day that the first cohort of MSc Geochemistry students graduated from the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of St Andrews. It was fantastic to see the graduates returning with their families and friends to...

Rob Wilson (School of Environmental and Earth Sciences) is involved in a new 3-year project called THEMES (funded by BNP Paribas Climate Initiative). The project consortium has members from across Europe (France, UK and Switzerland) as well as Argentina and Chile who...

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Mikey giving a speech of thanks, watched by Richard Bates, Charlotte Gordon, Sami Mikhail & Rob Wilson. The award. Michael 'Mikey' Van Mourik (School President 2016-17) "In the pre-Mikey days, all undergraduate students were required to pay towards their travel and...

2017 Prize Winners (left to right) Matt Kaminski (Irving Prize for best M-Level Student); Craig Walton (Irving Prize for Excellence in Field Work (Alps) - 1st Prize); Jasmine Hansen (Irvine Prize for Best Field-Based Research Project in Earth & Environmental Sciences...

Dr Richard Bates is part of the latest Royal Society sponsored meeting focusing on the impact and record of climate change as viewed through the lens of paleo-landscape. Entitled Lost and Future Worlds, further information can be found on the Royal Society...

Billions of years ago the young planet Earth was much different from the one we inhabit today, with wildly fluctuating surface temperatures and an atmosphere and oceans filled with gases toxic to life as we know it. Understanding how we got from that inhospitable...

SEES Lecturer Sami Mikhail has been honoured by the Geological Society of London with the 2017 Murchison Fund. This award recognizes significant contributions to the field of hard rock and tectonic geoscience by an individual under the age of 40.  The motivation...