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· Apr 21
🚨We're Hiring!🚨
UF Geology is searching for an Associate or Full Professor with tenure with a research program in the very broadly defined area of globally significant geoscience relevant to subsurface or sedimentary geology for the endowed Thompson Chair of Geological Sciences!
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Link below:
UF Geology is searching for an Associate or Full Professor with tenure with a research program in the very broadly defined area of globally significant geoscience relevant to subsurface or sedimentary geology for the endowed Thompson Chair of Geological Sciences!
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🚨 Open Postdoctoral Researcher Position! 🚨
UF is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher to investigate seismic signatures of wave–dune energy transfer and couple observations with process-based models of dune evolution. Field campaigns, data pipelines, and collaboration across UF.
Link below! ⚒️🧪🌊
UF is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher to investigate seismic signatures of wave–dune energy transfer and couple observations with process-based models of dune evolution. Field campaigns, data pipelines, and collaboration across UF.
Link below! ⚒️🧪🌊
November 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
🚨 Open Postdoctoral Researcher Position! 🚨
UF is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher to investigate seismic signatures of wave–dune energy transfer and couple observations with process-based models of dune evolution. Field campaigns, data pipelines, and collaboration across UF.
Link below! ⚒️🧪🌊
UF is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher to investigate seismic signatures of wave–dune energy transfer and couple observations with process-based models of dune evolution. Field campaigns, data pipelines, and collaboration across UF.
Link below! ⚒️🧪🌊
🎉🏆🥳UF Geology's GeoSPACE field program has been honored with the Award for Advancing Inclusive Excellence in STEM from @agu.org!!! Led by Prof. Anita Marshall @bakingsodavolc.bsky.social, it's the first designed to be accessible to students with disabilities and other complicating life factors ⚒️🧪🔭
GeoSPACE field program honored with national award for advancing inclusive STEM education
GeoSPACE is the first geoscience field camp designed specifically to be accessible and inclusive for students and faculty with disabilities.
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October 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🎉🏆🥳UF Geology's GeoSPACE field program has been honored with the Award for Advancing Inclusive Excellence in STEM from @agu.org!!! Led by Prof. Anita Marshall @bakingsodavolc.bsky.social, it's the first designed to be accessible to students with disabilities and other complicating life factors ⚒️🧪🔭
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The application window for GeoSPACE 2026 is now open! Join us online or in-person in Arizona for a two-week planetary geology field camp through @ufgeology.bsky.social. Open to geo-gators as well as visitors from other schools. If you are looking for an accessible field camp, check us out! ⚒️
October 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The application window for GeoSPACE 2026 is now open! Join us online or in-person in Arizona for a two-week planetary geology field camp through @ufgeology.bsky.social. Open to geo-gators as well as visitors from other schools. If you are looking for an accessible field camp, check us out! ⚒️
New research from a team including UF Geology Prof. Courtney Sprain published in @commsearth.nature.com shows that when the dinosaurs went extinct, the landscape responded to their absence, and quickly!
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When dinosaurs vanished, forests flourished and rivers calmed down
The sudden disappearance of large herbivores transformed landscapes after the asteroid impact.
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September 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
New research from a team including UF Geology Prof. Courtney Sprain published in @commsearth.nature.com shows that when the dinosaurs went extinct, the landscape responded to their absence, and quickly!
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🦖Dinosaurs promoted open habitats in the Late Cretaceous, and their extinction could have led to a radical reorganization of the landscape and ecosystem structure at the beginning of the Paleogene.
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👉Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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👉Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Dinosaur extinction can explain continental facies shifts at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary - Communications Earth & Environment
Dinosaurs promoted open habitats in the Late Cretaceous, and their extinction could have led to a radical reorganization of the landscape and ecosystem structure at the beginning of the Paleogene, acc...
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September 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
🦖Dinosaurs promoted open habitats in the Late Cretaceous, and their extinction could have led to a radical reorganization of the landscape and ecosystem structure at the beginning of the Paleogene.
@umich.edu
👉Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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👉Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
And you thought Florida was scary TODAY!!!
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#FossilFriday Skeleton of the terror bird Titanis walleri at the Florida Museum of Natural History 🧪⚒️🦖
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August 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
And you thought Florida was scary TODAY!!!
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🚨New Paper Alert!🚨
Prof Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba found that beach nourishment protects coasts, but links neighboring towns. Modeling and a New Jersey case study show frequent nourishers get lower efficiency while neighbors benefit; as retreat and sand costs rise, fair regional coordination is needed
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Prof Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba found that beach nourishment protects coasts, but links neighboring towns. Modeling and a New Jersey case study show frequent nourishers get lower efficiency while neighbors benefit; as retreat and sand costs rise, fair regional coordination is needed
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From Coastal Retreat to Seaward Growth: Emergent Behaviors From Paired Community Beach Nourishment Choices
Local beach nourishment choices strongly affect regional shoreline change Frequent nourishment lowers efficiency but helps neighboring beaches through sand sharing Coordinated nourishment boosts...
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August 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🚨New Paper Alert!🚨
Prof Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba found that beach nourishment protects coasts, but links neighboring towns. Modeling and a New Jersey case study show frequent nourishers get lower efficiency while neighbors benefit; as retreat and sand costs rise, fair regional coordination is needed
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Prof Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba found that beach nourishment protects coasts, but links neighboring towns. Modeling and a New Jersey case study show frequent nourishers get lower efficiency while neighbors benefit; as retreat and sand costs rise, fair regional coordination is needed
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🚨New Paper Alert!🚨
I've got a new paper out in Science Advances where we show that the 2 byr old Chang'e 5 magma came from shallow depths in the lunar mantle, and that melting was likely driven by top-down heating of the mantle by radioactive decay in a sub-crustal KREEP layer.
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I've got a new paper out in Science Advances where we show that the 2 byr old Chang'e 5 magma came from shallow depths in the lunar mantle, and that melting was likely driven by top-down heating of the mantle by radioactive decay in a sub-crustal KREEP layer.
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A shallow mantle source for the Chang’e 5 lavas reveals how top-down heating prolonged lunar magmatism
The chemistry of the youngest lunar lavas and experiments show how the mantle stayed hot enough to melt for billions of years.
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July 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
🚨New Paper Alert!🚨
I've got a new paper out in Science Advances where we show that the 2 byr old Chang'e 5 magma came from shallow depths in the lunar mantle, and that melting was likely driven by top-down heating of the mantle by radioactive decay in a sub-crustal KREEP layer.
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Check it out:
I've got a new paper out in Science Advances where we show that the 2 byr old Chang'e 5 magma came from shallow depths in the lunar mantle, and that melting was likely driven by top-down heating of the mantle by radioactive decay in a sub-crustal KREEP layer.
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New research in Science Advances from UF Geology Prof. Stephen Elardo @steve-elardo.com shows that the 2 billion year old lava collected by the Chinese Chang'e 5 mission, which is the youngest rock from the Moon, came from unexpectedly shallow depths in the mantle.
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Young magmas on the moon came from much shallower depths than previously thought, new study finds
Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences Stephen Elardo's findings contradict previous theories on how and when the moon’s layers formed.
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July 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
New research in Science Advances from UF Geology Prof. Stephen Elardo @steve-elardo.com shows that the 2 billion year old lava collected by the Chinese Chang'e 5 mission, which is the youngest rock from the Moon, came from unexpectedly shallow depths in the mantle.
⚒️🧪🔭 #PlanetSci
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🚨We're Hiring!🚨
UF Geology is searching for an Associate or Full Professor with tenure with a research program in the very broadly defined area of globally significant geoscience relevant to subsurface or sedimentary geology for the endowed Thompson Chair of Geological Sciences!
⚒️🧪🔭🌊
Link below:
UF Geology is searching for an Associate or Full Professor with tenure with a research program in the very broadly defined area of globally significant geoscience relevant to subsurface or sedimentary geology for the endowed Thompson Chair of Geological Sciences!
⚒️🧪🔭🌊
Link below:
April 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
🚨We're Hiring!🚨
UF Geology is searching for an Associate or Full Professor with tenure with a research program in the very broadly defined area of globally significant geoscience relevant to subsurface or sedimentary geology for the endowed Thompson Chair of Geological Sciences!
⚒️🧪🔭🌊
Link below:
UF Geology is searching for an Associate or Full Professor with tenure with a research program in the very broadly defined area of globally significant geoscience relevant to subsurface or sedimentary geology for the endowed Thompson Chair of Geological Sciences!
⚒️🧪🔭🌊
Link below:
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Check out the News and Views I wrote for @nature.com on what the first results from the Chang'e 6 samples means for our understanding of the Moon!
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Soil samples from the far side of the Moon provide clues about the origin of lunar asymmetry
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First returned rock samples shine a light on the Moon’s ‘dark side’
Soil samples from the far side of the Moon provide clues about the origin of lunar asymmetry and the effects of ‘mega-basin’ impacts on the evolution of rocky planets
go.nature.com
July 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Check out the News and Views I wrote for @nature.com on what the first results from the Chang'e 6 samples means for our understanding of the Moon!
#PlanetSci
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A new @commsearth.nature.com study led by former UF PhD student Andrea Pain and Professor of Geological Sciences Jonathan Martin, suggests that as ice sheets retreat, glacial environments initially absorb greenhouse gases but soil development over long times creates a source of greenhouse gases. ⚒️🧪🌊
Sediments exposed by glacier melt begin emitting greenhouse gases over time
Glacial environments initially absorb greenhouse gases, but eventually emit them.
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July 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
A new @commsearth.nature.com study led by former UF PhD student Andrea Pain and Professor of Geological Sciences Jonathan Martin, suggests that as ice sheets retreat, glacial environments initially absorb greenhouse gases but soil development over long times creates a source of greenhouse gases. ⚒️🧪🌊
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Yesterday, a bunch of exciting papers came out in @nature.com on the first samples from the Moon's farside returned by Chang'e 6.
I wrote a News and Views about what these results mean for our understanding of the Moon. Check it out!
#planetsci 🧪⚒️🔭
I wrote a News and Views about what these results mean for our understanding of the Moon. Check it out!
#planetsci 🧪⚒️🔭
First returned rock samples shine a light on the Moon’s ‘dark side’ | Nature
Soil samples from the far side of the Moon provide clues about the origin of lunar asymmetry and the effects of ‘mega-basin’ impacts on the evolution of rocky planets Soil samples from the far side of the Moon provide clues about the origin of lunar asymmetry and the effects of ‘mega-basin’ impacts on the evolution of rocky planets
www.nature.com
July 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Yesterday, a bunch of exciting papers came out in @nature.com on the first samples from the Moon's farside returned by Chang'e 6.
I wrote a News and Views about what these results mean for our understanding of the Moon. Check it out!
#planetsci 🧪⚒️🔭
I wrote a News and Views about what these results mean for our understanding of the Moon. Check it out!
#planetsci 🧪⚒️🔭
In a recent @commsearth.nature.com paper, Andrea Pain and a team from UF Geology explored how climate feedbacks change as glaciers retreat and expose the landscape beneath them.
#EarthSci #Climate🧪⚒️🌊
#EarthSci #Climate🧪⚒️🌊
Glacial retreat converts exposed landscapes from net carbon sinks to sources - Communications Earth & Environment
Weathering of fresh comminuted sediment during glacial to interglacial transitions can result in net carbon dioxide sinks, whereas enhanced methanogenesis in deglaciated soils acts as a source of gree...
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July 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
In a recent @commsearth.nature.com paper, Andrea Pain and a team from UF Geology explored how climate feedbacks change as glaciers retreat and expose the landscape beneath them.
#EarthSci #Climate🧪⚒️🌊
#EarthSci #Climate🧪⚒️🌊
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The 4th year of GeoSPACE is underway in Arizona. We are so grateful for the donations that supported running the course this year and supporting a great group of students!
Here's some of our crew with an extra crew member at Meteor Crater 🚀👩🚀
Here's some of our crew with an extra crew member at Meteor Crater 🚀👩🚀
May 29, 2025 at 5:35 AM
The 4th year of GeoSPACE is underway in Arizona. We are so grateful for the donations that supported running the course this year and supporting a great group of students!
Here's some of our crew with an extra crew member at Meteor Crater 🚀👩🚀
Here's some of our crew with an extra crew member at Meteor Crater 🚀👩🚀
Happy Earth Day, y'all!
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April 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Happy Earth Day, y'all!
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AGU joins partners around the world this #EarthDay in reaffirming our shared commitment to science that informs decisions, strengthens communities and protects our planet.
April 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
AGU joins partners around the world this #EarthDay in reaffirming our shared commitment to science that informs decisions, strengthens communities and protects our planet.
🚨We're Hiring!🚨
UF Geology is searching for an Associate or Full Professor with tenure with a research program in the very broadly defined area of globally significant geoscience relevant to subsurface or sedimentary geology for the endowed Thompson Chair of Geological Sciences!
⚒️🧪🔭🌊
Link below:
UF Geology is searching for an Associate or Full Professor with tenure with a research program in the very broadly defined area of globally significant geoscience relevant to subsurface or sedimentary geology for the endowed Thompson Chair of Geological Sciences!
⚒️🧪🔭🌊
Link below:
April 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
🚨We're Hiring!🚨
UF Geology is searching for an Associate or Full Professor with tenure with a research program in the very broadly defined area of globally significant geoscience relevant to subsurface or sedimentary geology for the endowed Thompson Chair of Geological Sciences!
⚒️🧪🔭🌊
Link below:
UF Geology is searching for an Associate or Full Professor with tenure with a research program in the very broadly defined area of globally significant geoscience relevant to subsurface or sedimentary geology for the endowed Thompson Chair of Geological Sciences!
⚒️🧪🔭🌊
Link below:
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We made a seismograph for our open house using an old darkroom clock. Thanks to everyone who came out!
April 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
We made a seismograph for our open house using an old darkroom clock. Thanks to everyone who came out!
NASA is looking into what a mission to bring back samples from the Moon's farside would need to look like.
UF Geology Prof. Steve Elardo is on the team that is helping them figure that out.
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UF Geology Prof. Steve Elardo is on the team that is helping them figure that out.
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UF geologist to help plan potential NASA mission
Assistant Professor of Geology Stephen Elardo will help NASA with plans for a potential landing in the moon's South Pole-Aitken Basin Crater.
news.clas.ufl.edu
April 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
NASA is looking into what a mission to bring back samples from the Moon's farside would need to look like.
UF Geology Prof. Steve Elardo is on the team that is helping them figure that out.
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UF Geology Prof. Steve Elardo is on the team that is helping them figure that out.
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Congrats, Gators!!! NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!! Let’s go!!! 🏀🏆
April 8, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Congrats, Gators!!! NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!! Let’s go!!! 🏀🏆
Congratulations to Prof. Mark Brenner! Mark was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow for "outstanding paleoenvironmental change research and publishing, multidisciplinary contributions and collaborations across geology, geography, and archaeology"
April 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Congratulations to Prof. Mark Brenner! Mark was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow for "outstanding paleoenvironmental change research and publishing, multidisciplinary contributions and collaborations across geology, geography, and archaeology"
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We're hiring a Warehouse Coordinator to support safe and effective operations at the EarthScope Primary Instrument Center in Socorro, NM. This role helps maintain a well-functioning warehouse to support geophysical field operations.
Learn more & apply: www.earthscope.org/careers
Learn more & apply: www.earthscope.org/careers
March 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
We're hiring a Warehouse Coordinator to support safe and effective operations at the EarthScope Primary Instrument Center in Socorro, NM. This role helps maintain a well-functioning warehouse to support geophysical field operations.
Learn more & apply: www.earthscope.org/careers
Learn more & apply: www.earthscope.org/careers
The JOIDES Resolution has long been an essential fixture of ocean drilling and science. As the JR went on its final expeditions, @eos.org spoke to some early-career researchers who sailed on those voyages, including our Alum Dr. Nicole Greco @greco-glacial.bsky.social.
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Expedition 403: Sailing the Last Expedition of the JOIDES Resolution - Eos
Early-career geoscientists share melancholy memories about hard science and intangible networks of collaboration.
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March 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The JOIDES Resolution has long been an essential fixture of ocean drilling and science. As the JR went on its final expeditions, @eos.org spoke to some early-career researchers who sailed on those voyages, including our Alum Dr. Nicole Greco @greco-glacial.bsky.social.
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THANK YOU!! We raised $12,733 during UF's fundraiser #StandUpAndHoller. Your support also unlocked a $50k pledge that will set up an endowment to support this and other experiential programs at @ufgeology.bsky.social. Missed the fundraiser? You can still help: sites.google.com/ufl.edu/geos...
February 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
THANK YOU!! We raised $12,733 during UF's fundraiser #StandUpAndHoller. Your support also unlocked a $50k pledge that will set up an endowment to support this and other experiential programs at @ufgeology.bsky.social. Missed the fundraiser? You can still help: sites.google.com/ufl.edu/geos...