Department of Geology
Welcome to the Department of Geology at Bryn Mawr College. In these pages you will find information about our courses and research, our students and faculty, our undergraduate and graduate programs, our history, our facilities, and our special events.
Recent Department Highlights
Two Bryn Mawr students will have the chance to join Geology Lecturer Lynne Elkins on a trip to the waters north of Iceland next summer as Elkins and her fellow researchers try to better understand volcanic activity in the area. The researchers plan to explore the mechanisms driving the production of new ocean crust occurring at volcanic mid-ocean ridges like the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the Arctic Ocean, and also to help explain anomalous volcanic activity occurring in the region.
The trip is funded by a National Science Foundation grant that Elkins and colleagues from the University of Wyoming received this summer to explore volcanic activity in a segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge known as the Eggvin Bank. Read more...
Geology Students Compete for Microgravity Research Grant
The Bryn Mawr Microgravity Research Team - a group of seven Geology Majors - has submitted a proposal to NASA to fly on the "Vomit Comet", an astronaut training aircraft that simulates zero gravity. If selected, they will be simulating the effect of Mars gravity on Martian soil porosity. Read their blog here!
Geology Assistant Professor and the Search for Water on Mars
New Assistant Professor of Geology Selby Cull is among the researchers making headlines for a just-released article in the journal Scienceon the possibility of water on Mars. The news has been reported by most major media outlets world-wide.
Department and Alumni Activity :
- Student Summer Research Projects
- Senior Sarah Christian co-authors Nature paper on Mars
- A future Forensic Geoscientist at work
- Geology grad Alexi Ernstoff in the news: Flying Cars
- Student Research, Internships, and Field Camp Opportunities
Department Travel:
Department Spring trip to Costa Rica is being planned for the Spring of 2012