It was her first time trying out the sport. McCarthy's day at Whitehorse's Mount Sima was possible thanks to the ski hill's adaptive snowsport program. Now in its third year, the program ...

Richard Sima is a neuroscientist turned science journalist who writes the Brain Matters column for The Washington Post's Well+Being desk. After more than a decade of research, Sima transitioned ...

The Earth Sciences contribute to answers on a wide range of societal and economic questions in areas such as: the natural means of existence (water, raw materials, the energy transition), the ...

Structural geology is the study of the deformation of the surface and subsurface of the Earth and other planetary bodies. This deformation reflects past changes in local and regional stress and ...

The incoming Biogeosciences (BG) Division President will be unable to take their position in April 2025 for unforeseen health reasons, as such EGU are holding an extraordinary election for a new ...

Fossils from Sima de los Huesos and Krapina showed high variation in canal shape, suggesting a larger, more genetically diverse population. “The development of the inner ear structures is known ...

Hydrothermal fluids can transport suspended metal-rich melt droplets (nano-to-micron-sized) that are precursors to polymineral inclusions and potentially a key process in noble metal ...

A view of Ukinrek Maars in Alaska. The eastern maar (front) is typical of volcanic maars in that it is a deep, round crater filled with water. (Image credit: Nye, C. via USGS) However, there are ...

“The Neanderthal lineage differentiated soon thereafter, as testified by the genetic and morphological evidence from the Middle Pleistocene Sima de los Huesos humans, previously considered to ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around ...

Southern California is frequently shaken by earthquakes. How they feel to people living in Los Angeles has a lot to do with the sediment-filled basin the city sits upon. Jack Wonfor spotted a ...

Students can earn Degrees, Minors, and Certificates in Geology, Geophysics, Hydrology, Geoscience Education, and Geographic Information Systems. In all programs we enable students to discover and ...