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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 more questions, please contact the department today.

 




Geoscience Assistant Professor Ganjing Jiang and colleagues, in a recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (reprint), test the proposed linkages between redox changes in the oceans and biological evolution. Their study shows that pulsed oxidation is coupled with the development and diversification of multicellular life, in a transitional period between regimes in which carbon in the worlds oceans was dominated by dissolved organic carbon, to dominated by dissolved inorganic carbon. The research has important implications for the relationships between oxygenation of the world’s oceans and biological evolution.
            
               

 



 

 

 

 

 


  
In Memory of David L. Weide
1936-2008
UNLV Geoscience Faculty Member 1973-2004





•Read the Spring 2008 Newsletter!

•Check out Department Newsletters   from previous years.

•Sign up today to participate in   UNLV's Geology Field Camp

•Spring 2008 Seminar Schedule

•The 3rd Annual GeoSymposium, to   showcase student research within   the Geoscience Department, was   held on April 18-19, 2008. Visit our   GeoSymposium Website to learn   more about this annual event.

•The UNLV Geoscience Department   hosted the Spring 2008 Joint   Meeting of the Cordilleran and   Rocky Mountain sections of the   Geological Society of America: March   19-21, 2008

Faculty & Student GSA Submissions (Talks & Posters)
Spring 2008 Joint Meeting

•The AGU Fall Meeting was held  in   San Francisco, California: December   10-14, 2007

The GSA Annual Meeting was held in    Denver, Colorado: October 28-31,    2007


Past News and Events

 
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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