UF Geology
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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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🎉🏆🥳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 ⚒️🧪🔭
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.
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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! ⚒️
5 students from the University of Florida do the "gator chomp" at Sunset Point Arizona during the 2025 field course.
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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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When dinosaurs vanished, forests flourished and rivers calmed down
The sudden disappearance of large herbivores transformed landscapes after the asteroid impact.
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And you thought Florida was scary TODAY!!!
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#FossilFriday Skeleton of the terror bird Titanis walleri at the Florida Museum of Natural History 🧪⚒️🦖

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🚨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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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...
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🚨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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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.
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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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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.
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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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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. ⚒️🧪🌊
Sediments exposed by glacier melt begin emitting greenhouse gases over time
Glacial environments initially absorb greenhouse gases, but eventually emit them.
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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 🚀👩‍🚀
10 students gathered around a life-sized statue of an astronaut in a courtyard with desert a vista in the background
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Happy Earth Day, y'all!
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AGU joins partners around the world this #EarthDay in reaffirming our shared commitment to science that informs decisions, strengthens communities and protects our planet.
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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!
⚒️🧪🔭🌊
Link below:
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We made a seismograph for our open house using an old darkroom clock. Thanks to everyone who came out!
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The full ad and details on how to apply can be found at this link. Please share widely! ⚒️🧪🔭
University of Florida - Details - Thompson Chair of Geological Sciences - Associate or Full Professor
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NASA is looking into what a mission to bring back samples from the Moon's farside would need to look like.

UF Geology Prof. Steve Elardo is on the team that is helping them figure that out.
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UF geologist to help plan potential NASA mission
Assistant Professor of Geology Stephen Elardo will help NASA with plans for a potential landing in the moon's South Pole-Aitken Basin Crater.
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Congrats, Gators!!! NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!! Let’s go!!! 🏀🏆
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Congratulations to Prof. Mark Brenner! Mark was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow for "outstanding paleoenvironmental change research and publishing, multidisciplinary contributions and collaborations across geology, geography, and archaeology"
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We're hiring a Warehouse Coordinator to support safe and effective operations at the EarthScope Primary Instrument Center in Socorro, NM. This role helps maintain a well-functioning warehouse to support geophysical field operations.

Learn more & apply: www.earthscope.org/careers
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The JOIDES Resolution has long been an essential fixture of ocean drilling and science. As the JR went on its final expeditions, @eos.org spoke to some early-career researchers who sailed on those voyages, including our Alum Dr. Nicole Greco @greco-glacial.bsky.social.
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Expedition 403: Sailing the Last Expedition of the JOIDES Resolution - Eos
Early-career geoscientists share melancholy memories about hard science and intangible networks of collaboration.
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