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Penn team led by MES student Heather Kostick blitzes the Rushton Woods nature reserve for data on living species

EES staff and faculty receive Penn LGBT Safe Space training to promote a more welcoming department community

EES '15 graduate Vanessa Eni explores magnetic and gravity imaging of Kopjeskraal Farm in South Africa

Congratulations to Arlene Mand of EES for winning a 2015 SAS Staff Program Silver Award!

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Congratulations to David Goldsby and Christopher Thom on their Science Advances paper

EES PhD Candidate Chris Thom and Associate Professor David Goldsby coauthored a Science Advances paper demonstrating via nanoindentation testing that the strength of olivine, the primary mineral in the Earth’s upper mantle, depends on the length scale of deformation, with experiments on smaller volumes of material exhibiting larger yield stresses.
EES and the Eclipse

Click above to see EES folks checking out the eclipse from Monday, 8/21/17.
Interesting News: Lightning can beat up rocks like an asteroid strike, casting doubt on past impacts

Click this link http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/lightning-can-beat-rocks-asteroid-strike-casting-doubt-past-impacts to read some interesting new information found by Reto Gierè and his colleagues who set out to show that the bolts from the blue could also generate the extreme pressures needed to shock quartz.

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