UF Geology

Geology Department Fund - Gator Nation Giving Day Do you ever wish you could have attended a Hydro field camp or learned to code in Python over the summer? Maybe a shorter, local field experience would have been practical for you? Many of our alumni ...

You can donate to the Geological Sciences General Fund here: givingday.ufl.edu/campaigns/ge...

🎉UF Giving Day 2026 is Here!!!🎉

Our students & alumni consistently say that their learning experiences outside the classroom were invaluable. So we're raising 💲to support experiential learning opportunities for our students....

...and to unlock a $50,000 gift if we reach 55 donations!
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Geology Department Fund - Gator Nation Giving Day Do you ever wish you could have attended a Hydro field camp or learned to code in Python over the summer? Maybe a shorter, local field experience would have been practical for you? Many of our alumni ...

Donate to the UF Geology General fund and help us unlock our $50,000 donation here: givingday.ufl.edu/campaigns/ge...

🚨UF Giving Day 2026 is almost here!🚨

And we have a $50,000 donation that will be unlocked ONLY when we reach 55 donations!!! Those can be of ANY SIZE, $1, $25, anything!

Help support our students getting valuable learning experiences outside the classroom with a donation!

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Two UF faculty members, including UF Geology's Dr. Amy Williams, recently played key leadership roles in a major report that will help guide U.S. science priorities for future human missions to Mars.

Visit the UF News website to learn more: news.ufl.edu/2026/02/facu...

🎉 Welcome to Day 1 of #AGU25 in New Orleans!

We’re thrilled to welcome the global Earth and space science community to New Orleans for a week of connection, discovery, and impact.

Here’s what’s happening today 👇

Don’t miss this #AGU25 oral session on the future of geoscience TOMORROW!

AGU CEO Janice Lachance, #MIT’s Maria Zuber & @nasonline.org President Marcia McNutt discuss challenges, blind spots & restoring public trust—moderated by Gordon E. Grant.

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What happens when NASA science meets one of the most iconic voices in music? 🎤✨

Come see how Jewel and NASA collaborators are using creativity to make the universe feel closer than ever. 🌌

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Graphic for "Call to Action: Announcing the Guidelines for Indigenous Data Governance in Scholarly Publishing"

Join our #AGU25 town hall tomorrow to learn about the "Guidelines for Indigenous Data Governance in Scholarly Publishing" and how you can help drive collective impact.🌎

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#AGUPubs #Publishing

Reminder! My fantastic Department is hiring an Instructional Faculty position in Earth Surface Processes!!!
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🚨 We are Hiring!!! 🚨

UF Geology is searching for a Teaching Faculty (Lecturer or Senior Lecturer) in Earth Surface Processes.

Lecturer positions at UF are faculty positions with promotion potential, the ability to advise students, & apply for funding if desired.

Apply by Jan. 5th! Link Below ⚒️🧪

Full details on the position and the link to apply can be found here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

Graphic ad for the lecturer position.

🚨 We are Hiring!!! 🚨

UF Geology is searching for a Teaching Faculty (Lecturer or Senior Lecturer) in Earth Surface Processes.

Lecturer positions at UF are faculty positions with promotion potential, the ability to advise students, & apply for funding if desired.

Apply by Jan. 5th! Link Below ⚒️🧪

explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

🚨 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! ⚒️🧪🌊

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.

🎉🏆🥳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 ⚒️🧪🔭

5 students from the University of Florida do the "gator chomp" at Sunset Point Arizona during the 2025 field course.

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! ⚒️

When dinosaurs vanished, forests flourished and rivers calmed down The sudden disappearance of large herbivores transformed landscapes after the asteroid impact.

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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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...

🦖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...

And you thought Florida was scary TODAY!!!
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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...

🚨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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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.

🚨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:

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.

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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🚨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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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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Sediments exposed by glacier melt begin emitting greenhouse gases over time Glacial environments initially absorb greenhouse gases, but eventually emit them.

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. ⚒️🧪🌊

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!
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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...

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.
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10 students gathered around a life-sized statue of an astronaut in a courtyard with desert a vista in the background

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 🚀👩‍🚀

Happy Earth Day, y'all!
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