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Mining For Ideas – Reflections on WMGIC VIII
On June 11, 2024
By: Elisabeth Nielsen ’27 and Dorothy Gao ’24 In April, 20+ teams with over 85 participants from 5 countries participated in the eighth annual
Traipsing across the Piedmont: A Day Trip thru Geology and History
On March 3, 2024
The W&M Geology Departmental Spring field trip left the Atlantic Coastal Plain last Sunday morning for a quick dash westward into the Piedmont: a
From Ideas to Impact: GRI’s Founding Research Labs Celebrate 20 Years
On June 23, 2023
By Martha Reilly Good ideas can come from anywhere. Twenty years ago, they came from the Green Leafe Cafe, where Brad Parks’s honors thesis
Clear as Mud: W&M geologists use Lake Matoaka sediment to refine charcoal classification system
On March 1, 2023
A group of William & Mary researchers from the Department of Geology and the Environment & Sustainability program have found that microscopic charcoal pieces
Let’s Date Rocks! A Geochronological Journey from the Outcrop to a Numeric Age
On February 13, 2023
By Nailah Johnson ’24 Last summer I worked with a team of William & Mary undergraduate students to study the geology of central Virginia. In particular,
William & Mary Returns to Oman
On January 17, 2023
In January 2020, I co-led the William & Mary study abroad program to Oman (commonly known as Rock Music Oman). As we returned home
Crabtree Falls and Landscape Disequilibrium in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains
On November 29, 2022
Back in October, early on a Saturday morning my Earth’s Surface Processes students loaded into vans and we headed west to the Blue Ridge
Your Guide to Finals Season (from a Transfer Student!)
On November 15, 2022
Hello! My name is Katarina, and I’m a senior studying History and minoring in Hispanic Studies here at William & Mary. I’m also a
What’s WMÜTTS?
On November 4, 2022
By Chuck Bailey Scientists like their acronyms, and in some fields the more acronyms the better. Earlier this year I received a GSA AGeS-DiGS