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riceeeps.bsky.social @riceeeps.bsky.social · 2d

Join Dr. Taiyi Wang, O.K. Earl postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology, TOMORROW, for a talk titled "Cascading magmatic unrest and aseismic faulting in the Aegean Sea enabled by elastic stress relay".

🗓️ Oct. 9th @ 1 pm
📍KWGl, Room 100

#RiceEEPS #CalTech

"Cascading magmatic unrest and aseismic faulting in the Aegean Sea enabled by elastic stress relay" special guest: Dr. Taiyi Wang october 9th, 2025. Picture of wang with text: O. K. Earl postdoctoral fellow at Caltech division of geological and planetary science.

riceeeps.bsky.social @riceeeps.bsky.social · 3d

⏪ Throwback to welcoming the class of 2029 to EEPS

Join EEPS representatives this Friday, for the School of Natural Sciences Undergraduate Research fair. Swipe for details.

#RiceEEPS #RiceENVS #RiceUniversity

Students sitting at tables looking to the left and reading materials.

Undergraduate Research Fair, Friday, October 10th 12-1:30 pm Brockman Hall for Physics Patio, Lunch provided.

riceeeps.bsky.social @riceeeps.bsky.social · 8d

Congratulations Dr. Sylvia Dee!

Dr. Dee has received the Nanne Weber Early Career Award from AGU's Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Section

Please send her many congratulations in the comments 👇

Learn more: news.rice.edu/news/2025/ri...

riceeeps.bsky.social @riceeeps.bsky.social · 9d

Join Dr. Susan Bilek, TOMORROW, for a talk titled "Adventures in environmental seismology: Using geophysical, sedimentological, and hydrologic data analysis to explore flow & bedload transport during flood events ".

🗓️ October 2nd @ 1 pm
📍KWGL, Room 100

#RiceEEPS #Seismology

Says Rice Natural Science Earth, Environmental and PlanetarySciences Seminar, Adventures in environmental seismology: Using geophysical, sedimentological, and hydrologic data analysis to explore flow and bedload transport during flood events. Special Guest: Dr. Susan Bilek
Earth and Environmental Science Dept, New Mexico Tech. October 2nd 2025

riceeeps.bsky.social @riceeeps.bsky.social · 9d

Congratulations Dr. Richard Gordon!

Dr. Gordon has been awarded @AmericanGeophysicalUnion (AGU's) Walter H. Bucher Medal

Please send him many congratulations in the comments 👇

Learn more: news.rice.edu/news/2025/ri...

#AGU #PlateTectonics #Lithosphere #RiceUniversity

riceeeps.bsky.social @riceeeps.bsky.social · 10d

Dr. Masiello has been elected fellow of American Geophysical Union, an honor earned by fewer than 0.1% of all AGU members.

Please send her many congratulations in the comments 👇

Learn more: news.rice.edu/news/2025/ri...

#AGUFellow @AmericanGeophysicalUnion #CarbonCycling #ClimateSolutions

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riceeeps.bsky.social @riceeeps.bsky.social · 16d

Join Dr. Xiaowei Chen, #TAMU Associate Professor, TOMORROW for a talk titled "Probing fluid-faulting processes within complex fault systems during fluid-induced earthquake sequences".

🗓️ September 25th @ 1 pm
📍KWGl, Room 100

#Earthquake #FaultSystems #RiceEEPS

EEPS Seminar, Featuring: Dr. Xiaowei Chen “Probing fluid-faulting processes within complex fault systems during fluid-induced earthquake sequences.” 1 pm, September 25, 2025. In person: KWGL room 100, Virtually: Zoom Meeting. Enjoy a coffee break at 12:30 pm in the 2nd floor KWGL library.

riceeeps.bsky.social @riceeeps.bsky.social · 21d

Alt Text: Ellie Moreland holds a microphone and introduces herself and her research to the camera. She states she will be doing a social media takeover of the EEPS instagram next week and to put questions for her in the comments. She mentions she published a paper last week.

riceeeps.bsky.social @riceeeps.bsky.social · 21d

👋Meet Ellie Moreland, a 5th year PhD student studying planetary geochemistry and surface processes in the EEPS department at #RiceUniversity.

🔴Visit Rice News to learn more: news.rice.edu/news/2025/ne...

👇Put questions for her in the comments.

#JezeroCrater #RiceEEPS

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riceeeps.bsky.social @riceeeps.bsky.social · 23d

Join Dr. Jane W. Baldwin, Assistant Professor at UC - Irvine and Adjunct Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, for a talk titled "The Role of Mountains in Understanding and Simulating Earth's Climate ".

🗓️ September 18th @ 1 pm
📍KWGL, Room 100

Flyer that says "EEPS seminar, Featuring: Dr. Jane W. Baldwin "The Role of mountains in understanding and simulating Earth's climate" 1 pm, september 18th 2025. In person: KWGL room 100, Virtually: zoom. Enjoy a coffee break at 12:30 pm in the 2nd floor KWGL library.

riceeeps.bsky.social @riceeeps.bsky.social · 24d

🔎Check it out: EEPS has a Fall 2025 100-Level course zine. Special thanks to EEPS & ENVS undergraduates, Ainsley Ganti, Nyla Hartigan, Adam Leff, Nat Pujet, & Charlotte Raymond for volunteering their time this summer to make this happen. It was a hit!

#RiceEEPS #EEPSZine

Notebook paper with planets and the words "2025 Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences Fall 100- Level courses"

Table of contents page with text: 1. EEPS 101 - The Earth
2. EEPS 102 - History of the Earth
3. EEPS 103 - Field Trips for the Earth
4. EEPS 106 - Investigating Earth’s Surface
5. EEPS 111 - Inhabiting Planet Earth
6. EEPS 114 - Discoveries in EEPS
7.Get Involved with EEPS
8.EEPS Peer Mentor Program
9.Why we chose EEPS"

Peer mentor program with text: Need advice?
grad school
research
scholarships
classes
registration
organization
LIFE homesickness
internships
Join the EEPS
Peer Mentoring Program!
scan the QR code to let us
know you are interested!
Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences, Rice University

I love being in nature, & w EEPS, you get to both learn about the world & see it for yourself on field trips. If you’re curious about any aspect of Earth, the EEPS community is for you! ~Nyla Hartigan
I love how interdisciplinary EEPS is! There’s really
something for everyone no matter your interests. Also, the sense of community is great!~Nat Pujet I was interested in the applications of chemistry within
planetary sciences, but the more classes I took the more interested I became in EEPS as a whole! The community and the field trips are also a plus :)~Ainsley Ganti I decided to major in ENVS- EEPS bc
I find environmental science & geology interesting, I love the EEPS community! ~Sam Forman I’ve always been interested in the natural world, & I took a class in hs which transformed my interest from a general love of nature to a more scientific desire
to uncover how natural phenomena behave & interact.The
tight-knit & welcoming community at Rice cemented that
fascination.
~Adam Leff

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riceeeps.bsky.social @riceeeps.bsky.social · 25d

⏪ Flashback to O-Week :

EEPS & ENVS had a great time speaking with over 150 incoming ug students at the 2025 Department Orientation & Academic Fair. We are sure we met many future Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Scientists!

What helped you decide to study EEPS?

Two students smile at the camera holding EEPS stickers and wearing jones ufo-week shirts.

Eeps representatives stand at a table talking to students. The table is covered in flyers, candy, and has a lego rover.

An Eeps representatives stands at a table talking to a student with brochure in hand.

riceeeps.bsky.social @riceeeps.bsky.social · 28d

This could be you, smiling and eating BBQ!

🚨 Reminder: Come say hi to your friends and colleagues on September 12th (TODAY), between 4-6pm for the EEPS Welcome Back BBQ.

Hope to see you on the patio.

Full picnic table of people smiling at the camera with plates of BBQ.

riceeeps.bsky.social @riceeeps.bsky.social · Sep 10

Siebach lab was featured in multiple press releases thanks to their recent Nature paper (lnkd.in/g_fQCkGW) that highlights potential biosignatures found by the #Perserverance rover in #Jezero crater.

Read more wherever you consume news or here: wapo.st/4mapyHQ

#MarsSampleReturn #RiceUniversity

Picture of Dr. Siebach at desk centered between two globes and with a lego rover in front of her.

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riceeeps.bsky.social @riceeeps.bsky.social · Sep 10

🏅Congratulations to #RiceEEPS professor, Dr. Richard Gordon, on being named the 2025 recipient of the George P. Woollard Award!

This award from the GSA recognizes outstanding contributions to geology through geophysics applications.

Learn more: news.rice.edu/news/2025/ri...

#WoollardAward #GSA

Richard Gordon on a stairwell with a window behind him. Text: "It's gratifying to know that our collective efforts have advanced the way we understand our planet. - Dr. Richard Gordon"

riceeeps.bsky.social @riceeeps.bsky.social · Sep 10

Join Dr. Allegra Mayer, from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, TOMORROW, for a talk titled "The value of reversible carbon storage in a zero-emissions world".

🗓️ September 11th @ 1 pm
📍Keith-Wiess Geological Laboratories, Room 100

#RiceEEPS #EEPSSeminar

Blue flyer with text: "EEPS Seminar, Featuring: Dr. Allegra Mayer "The Value of reversible carbon storage in a zero-emission world" 1 pm, september 11th, 2025, In-Person: KWGL Room 100, Virtually: Zoom Meeting. Enjoy a coffee break at 12:30 pm in the 2nd floor KWGL library.

riceeeps.bsky.social @riceeeps.bsky.social · Sep 9

Students definitely saw many road cuts on this field trip! We love letting our students (undergraduate and graduate) plan their own adventures thanks to generous funding from our alumni.

riceeeps.bsky.social @riceeeps.bsky.social · Sep 9

We can neither confirm nor deny the student leader intentions 😂

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riceeeps.bsky.social @riceeeps.bsky.social · Sep 7

📆 Grad Student Field Trip Day 5 - Rock Hounding 👷

For the final day of the field trip, EEPS grad students got to hunt for their own mineral samples to bring home. They donned hardhats and safety gear...and looked pretty cool.

#RiceEEPS #GeoScience #FieldTrip #RockHounding

Collage of 5 photos of students rock hounding with dirty hands, tools such as pix axes, and smiles.

Two eeps grad students sit near the site smiling in hard hats.

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riceeeps.bsky.social @riceeeps.bsky.social · Sep 6

📆 Grad Student Field Trip Day 4 - Garden of the Gods, Florissant National Monument & Fossil Quary

In this video, students got to search for fossils in the Florissant Fossil Quarry.

#RiceEEPS #GeoScience #FieldTrip #GardenOfTheGods #FlorissantNationalMonument #FossilQuarry

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riceeeps.bsky.social @riceeeps.bsky.social · Sep 5

📆 Grad Student Field Trip Day 3 - #ChasmLake Trail & #RockyMountainNationalPark

Day 3 was very eventful with an 8 mile hike at chasm lake and a visit to Rocky Mountain National Park. Students saw beautiful geology, scenery and even some furry friends!

#RiceEEPS #GeoScience #FieldTrip

Anindita Dash takes a selfie with the rest of the EEPS grad students with mountains in the background.

A rice hat is next to an EEPS hand lens on a mossy rock with mountains in the background.

A few alpaca's walk the trail with mountains in the background.

Text: Stop 5 Chasm Lake Trail
Hiking is a fundamental skill for geologists. At this stop we will hike for 8-mile to Chasm Lake, glacial lake located at the base of Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park. As a glacier formed and flowed down the face of Longs Peak, it plucked and scoured away the rock, creating the steep, amphitheater-like walls that surround the lake. The lake is dammed by a moraine, a mound of rock and debris that the glacier deposited as it melted. This terminal moraine is what created the natural basin for the lake.

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riceeeps.bsky.social @riceeeps.bsky.social · Sep 4

📆 Grad Student Field Trip Day 2 - Colorado School of Mines Geology Trail, Red Rock, & Dinosaur Ridge

On day 2, #RiceEEPS visited colleagues at the Colorado school of Mines to examine the Mine's Field Trail and see 🦕 dinosaur tracks, 🍃 fossilized leaves and 🪵log impression

Students stand and squat around an interesting rock with mountains behind them.

Student walk away from camera on road towards an outcrop.

student touch a red/orange rock feature.

Text: Stop 2 Colorado School of Mines and Mine’s Field Trail

We will see rock between 69 and 66 million years ago on CSM campus, including layers of the Pierre, Fox Hills, Laramie, and Arapahoe formations, all of which were tilted to a near-vertical angle by the uplift of the Front Range during the Laramide Orogeny. We will also see dinosaur tracks, as well as fossilized leaf and log impressions, which provide a glimpse into the ancient terrestrial environments that existed before the mountains rose. The path winds through old clay mining pits, which highlights the economic history of the area, as the clays were used to make bricks and tiles. The trail also includes a rock garden where rock samples typical of the geologic formations in the north Golden area are aligned according to their age, from the oldest Precambrian rocks to the east to the youngest Cenozoic lava flows on the west.

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riceeeps.bsky.social @riceeeps.bsky.social · Sep 4

Join Dr. Dev Niyogi, from the Jackson School of Geosciences at UT-Austin, TODAY, for a talk titled "Rainfall Extremes and Building Local Resilience".

🗓️ September 4th @ 1 pm
📍Keith-Wiess Geological Laboratories, Room 100

#RiceEEPS #EEPSSeminar

Text: EEPS Seminar Featuring: Dr. Dev Niyogi "Rainfall Extremes and Building local resilience" 1 pm, September 4th, 2025. In person: KWGL room 100, Virtually: zoom meeting. Enjoy a coffee break at 12:30 pm in the 2nd floor KWGL library.

riceeeps.bsky.social @riceeeps.bsky.social · Sep 3

📆 Grad Student Field Trip Day 1 - Mineral Cleaning Lab

Students were all smiles while examining beautifully cleaned minerals at a mineral lab in Denver, Colorado. They learned techniques to transform field specimens into ones fit for display.

#RiceEEPS #GeoScience #Minerals

EEPS graduate student smiling while taking pictures of minerals.

selfie with EEPS students and mineral lab staff.

Text reads: Day 1 - Stop 1 Mineral Cleaning Lab: We will visit a mineral cleaning lab near the Denver airport as our first stop. The work performed in these labs goes far beyond a simple wash and scrub. They employ a range of techniques to transform rough, often unattractive, specimens from the field into museum-quality display pieces or samples ready for scientific analysis. Text is next to two pictures of minerals labeled "Tom Zhang"

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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · Sep 2

🚨 Registration & housing are NOW OPEN for #AGU25!

🗓️ Key dates:

🔹 6 Nov – Early Bird Registration + Join/Renew membership for discounts

🔹 11 Nov – Housing deadline

🌎 Join us 15–19 Dec in New Orleans: buff.ly/4hT3mJe

#WhereScienceConnectsUs

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