The Lifecycle of a River
August 26, 2024
Julianne Davis writes about her last two field seasons in Alaska, waiting for river ice to break to study sediment shifts during springtime.
Geology
Adventures in Ancient Plants
June 18, 2024
Patricia Gensel has spent her career studying 400-million-year-old plants at Carolina and across the globe.
RUNC: Julianne Davis
September 7, 2022
Julianne Davis studies how water, sediment, and the landscape influence one another.
Thirst for the Search
May 9, 2022
How Brian Coffey’s love for hunting objects unearthed a dinosaur in Durham and led him to a career in the energy sector.
Unearthing the Planet’s History
February 15, 2021
About 2 billion years ago, the oceans were green, the land red and rocky, and only 1 percent of Earth’s atmosphere was oxygen. How did the planet become what it is today? UNC geochemist Xiao-Ming Liu collects samples of soil, rocks, and water from places like Hawaii to find the answer.
Xiaoming Liu
December 11, 2019
Xiaoming Liu is an assistant professor of geochemistry in the Department of Geological Sciences within the UNC College of Arts & Sciences. She studies old rocks to better understand Earth's elemental and isotope behavior and, ultimately, its history.
Oliver Lamb
October 9, 2019
Oliver Lamb is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Geological Sciences within the UNC College of Arts & Sciences. He explores how seismology and infrasound can be used to study natural phenomena like active volcanoes.
Madelyn Percy
January 13, 2016
Madelyn Percy is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geological Sciences. She is a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program and a Royster Fellow. Her research focuses on how rocks weather and soils develop across microclimates in the Galápagos Islands.
Tracking the Earth’s Heart Beats
March 30, 2015
A team of researchers uses cutting-edge technology to better predict when and how one of South America’s most active volcanoes will erupt.