Special Recognition for Mikey!

Jun 26, 2017 | News

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... read more

2017 Prize Winners

Jun 26, 2017 | News

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... read more

Congratulations to our Graduating Students!

Jun 26, 2017 | News

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Royal Society Meeting – Lost & Future Worlds

Apr 19, 2017 | News

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... read more

New PNAS paper: Biogenic haze formation fuelled planetary oxidation

Mar 20, 2017 | News

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... read more

Ruth Robinson contributes to Outstanding Paper of the Year

Mar 9, 2017 | News

Dr Ruth Robinson, Senior Lecturer in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, was part of an international team of researchers whose work was awarded Outstanding Paper of the Year for the Journal of Sedimentary Research, the premier journal in the field of... read more

Sami Mikhail wins major prize

Mar 7, 2017 | News

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... read more

Conditions right for complex life may have come and gone in Earth’s distant past

Feb 13, 2017 | News

One of the greatest mysteries about the evolution of complex life on Earth is why it emerged so late, more than 3.5 billion years after the formation of the planet. Most scientists believe that it was perhaps the lack of oxygen in the atmosphere that prevented the... read more

Nitrogen Revolution: study breathes new life into 2.3 billion year old ‘Great Oxidation Event’

Feb 8, 2017 | News

Research – led by the University of St Andrews and published Monday 6 February 2017 in Nature – provides new insight into how life evolved alongside changes in the chemistry of Earth’s surface. These researchers examined geochemical records of Earth’s ‘Great Oxidation... read more

Give GeoBus a birthday present!

Jan 24, 2017 | News, Uncategorized

GeoBus – our Earth Sciences outreach and education vehicle – just passed some major milestones, celebrating its 5th birthday, and reaching over 50,000 pupils, an achievement recently recognised by local MP Stephen Gethins.  Teaching Earth Sciences in... read more