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.

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...

In a recent article for The Conversation postdoctoral researcher Will Hutchison discusses the huge potential for geothermal energy in Ethiopia. Although almost 80 % of Ethiopia's population has no access to grid electricity there are a large number of volcanic systems...

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...

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...