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Among a class of researchers that use satellites and infrared imaging to study minerals from on high, Lyon led studies from the Amazon to the moon.
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As a young adult, Ayla Pamukçu found herself at a crossroads between college and culinary school. Thanks in part to an influential box of rocks, she chose a research path that eventually led to a career studying the inner workings of the Earth.
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The agreement creates partnerships to explore and address the increasing challenges of global climate change, energy security, and sustainability.
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A new Dean’s Lecture series through the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability launched Dec. 6 with a conversation on environmental justice by David Pellow, a distinguished professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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About 160 students and postdoctoral researchers have participated so far in Dean Arun Majumdar’s ongoing listening tour focused on the role of energy company engagement in research funding.
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"Life has taken me on a long journey. My family fled Somalia and ended up in a refugee camp in Mombasa, Kenya, where we spent four years. I was born there, and two years later we were granted asylum and came to the States."
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Speakers highlight the urgent need to scale technologies, democratize data, and apply more diverse skill sets to accelerate understanding and protection of our oceans.
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A new course winter quarter kicks off a series designed for undergraduates across the university. It will be taught by Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Dean Arun Majumdar and Dean of Research Kathryn “Kam” Moler.
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Geophysicist and world tectonics leader applies her scientific knowledge for risk reduction.
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Combining entrepreneurship with a passion for helping people.
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A field area studied in detail by Elizabeth Miller and mapped by countless undergraduates has been accepted as one of the first 100 Geological Heritage Sites by the International Union of Geological Sciences.
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A new library resource makes Google Earth Engine’s 70+ petabyte Data Catalog of Earth, climate, and social data immediately available to the school's researchers in a platform specifically designed for enabling research at a global scale.
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Years after Hurricane Katrina altered his life’s course, Elliott White Jr. set out to understand what drives coastal wetland loss as a way to help lessen harm from future climate impacts for vulnerable coastal communities.
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The newly named Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences has expanded its expertise in recent years to include extraterrestrial surface processes and atmospheric formation.
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The new APS Fellows are recognized for their work in fluid dynamics and industrial and applied physics.
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Astronaut and Geological Sciences alumna Jessica Watkins discussed her career path, her future mission to the moon, and seeing her former field sites from space.
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Monarrez, a postdoctoral scholar in Geological Sciences, has been awarded for his efforts to advance justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion at Stanford and beyond.
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The school formally launched with more than 600 guests and speakers urging action on climate change and other sustainability challenges.
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Dean Arun Majumdar addresses the school community. "We are embarking on an experiment to reimagine and transform our campus to match the magnitude, complexity and urgency that humanity and mother earth demands."
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Hacking for Climate and Sustainability course facilitates student participation in projects that produce climate solution deliverables for companies, NGOs, or government policy.
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For the first time since 2015, the Geological Society of Denmark honours a prominent geologist by awarding the Steno medal to Prof. Dennis K. Bird, Stanford University.
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With the help of AI, researchers far and wide will be able to easily access decades of digitized research based in Monterey Bay.
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Fendorf, the Terry Huffington Professor in the Department of Earth System Science and a senior fellow at the Woods Institute, has been elected for his exceptional achievements.
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Three projects are the first to be awarded Healthy Planet, Healthy People Early-Career Research Awards focused on solutions to complex health challenges.
