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Welcome to the Department of Geoscience. Our mission is to serve the needs of the State of Nevada by being an active participant in the national and international geoscience community, and by training professional geoscientists for private and governmental employment in the region. We are an active and growing department conducting exciting research and providing our students with outstanding opportunities to broaden their minds and careers. On these pages you will find information regarding our teaching, research, and community service. If you have further questions, please contact the department today. |
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Geoscience PhD student, Aaron Bell, and faculty member, Adam Simon, have published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (reprint) the results of a study which sheds light on the evolution of ore deposits rich in platinum and palladium, two metals vital to sustainability efforts such as the manufacture of fuel cells and solar panels. They performed experiments at high pressure and temperature to simulate the evol-ution of magma chambers that are thought to evolve platinum- and palladium-rich aqueous fluids which ascend and precipitate the metals in small volumes of the magma chamber, resulting in the con-centration of both metals increasing by five orders of magnitude to economic grades. The results will improve predictive techniques for the discovery of new deposits, required for future development of sus-tainable technology.
Mandy Williams (Ph.D. Student) has won the Farouk El-Baz GSA Student Research Award for her work on Biological Soil Crusts in the Mojave Desert. Her dissertation research will identify environmental factors controlling biological soil crusts within the Mojave Desert and attempt to model their distribution effectively. She will employ a novel, interdisciplinary approach (combining biology, ecology, soil science, hydrology, statistics, chemistry, geomorphology, GIS, and remote sensing) to investigate and model a complex, natural system. This work will examine the ecology of primitive organisms under extreme conditions and will have implications for understanding basic requirements of life. |
•Sign up today to participate in UNLV's Geology Field Camp •The 2009 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA) was held in Portland, Oregon on October 18-21, 2009. GSA 2009 Annual Meeting •The Fall 2009 Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) will be held in San Francisco, CA on December 14-18, 2009. AGU Fall 2009 Meeting •The Pan-American Current Research on Fluid Inclusions Conference (PACROFI) will be held on the UNLV Campus, June 2010. •The Department of Geoscience is pleased to offer Fay and Jack Ross Family Graduate Scholarships for exceptional applicants to our PhD program. Visit the Fay and Jack Ross Family Graduate Scholarship page to learn more about this opportunity. •Business is booming in the Geosciences! Read the article found in Science Careers, a publication of the journal Science. |
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Fong Geoscience Building (LFG) 104B Phone: 702.895.3262; FAX 702.895.4064 Email: geodept@unlv.edu |
Department of Geoscience University of Nevada, Las Vegas 4505 S. Maryland Parkway Las Vegas, NV 89154-4010 |