Marble is one of the plainest rocks on Earth. A Rice geoscientist and his collaborators found that it also keeps one of the most detailed diaries....

The Carey Croneis Professor of Earth, Environmental or Planetary Sciences, Alan Levander, has retired from Rice. Yet from his new home in the Pacific ...

EEPS Student Spotlight series highlights 2026 Rice University graduate Nyla Hartigan. Nyla recently received a National Science Foundation Graduate Re...

Brandon Schmandt, a professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, is the co-author of a recent article in the journal Geology with Wenkai ...

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Hot Science at Cordón Caulle Friday, Aug. 12, 2022


EEPS and Rice PSM adjunct faculty Faruk Omer Alpak, Ph.D.

EEPS Omer Alpak honored by the Society of Petroleum Engineers 2021 International Award Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021


Sylvia Dee

Sylvia Dee wins fellowship to launch Gulf of Mexico study Tuesday, Sep. 28, 2021

National Academies back ‘bold’ research projects by early-career scientists


Postdoctoral fellow Elizabeth Wallace

Nature’s archive reveals Atlantic tempests through time Tuesday, Sep. 7, 2021

Paleo storm hunters at Rice need data to refine the record of history’s hurricanes


Plume during an eruption of Raikoke Volcano in the Kuril Islands. Credit: ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center

Helge Gonnermann in EOS article about the impacts of volcanic eruptions on climate Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021


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