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The Department of Earth Sciences at UNH aims to improve our understanding of the Earth, and the processes that affect it, through excellence in teaching, research, and service. We offer undergraduate and graduate degrees encompassing a broad spectrum of disciplines including geology, hydrology, oceanography, ocean mapping, geochemistry, climate science, and geophysics. Our location on the Great Bay Estuary near the White Mountains provides an ideal backdrop for hands-on learning opportunities. Join us in our journey of discovery!

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    Professor Joel Johnson provides perspective for AGU EOS Article
    The Influence of Tidal Forces Extends to the Arctic’s Deep Sea
    The Moon’s gravitational pull creates the tides, but its influence extends hundreds of meters below the sea surface too, influencing sensitive methane seeps in the seabed.
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    Professor Joel Johnson provides perspective for AGU EOS Article
    The Influence of Tidal Forces Extends to the Arctic’s Deep Sea
    The Moon’s gravitational pull creates the tides, but its influence extends hundreds of meters below the sea surface too, influencing sensitive methane seeps in the seabed.
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  • Alia Lesnek and Allison Cluett
    Earth Sciences PostDoc Alia Lesnek Co-Authored a Study Published in Nature
    “Rate of mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet will exceed Holocene values this century"
    An interdisciplinary team of scientists used reconstructions of climate & former ice sheet extent to model the past, present, & future of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Future ice loss will be more extreme than any time in the past 12,000 years unless global carbon emissions are curbed.  
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    Earth Sciences PostDoc Alia Lesnek Co-Authored a Study Published in Nature
    “Rate of mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet will exceed Holocene values this century"
    An interdisciplinary team of scientists used reconstructions of climate & former ice sheet extent to model the past, present, & future of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Future ice loss will be more extreme than any time in the past 12,000 years unless global carbon emissions are curbed.  
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  • Larry Mayer
    Larry Mayer
    Named Chair the U.S. National Committee for the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development
    The National Academies is introducing a national committee that will serve as the voice of the U.S. scientific community during the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, which will run from 2021 to 2030. The U.S. National Committee for the Decade is comprised of the experts who...
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    Larry Mayer
    Named Chair the U.S. National Committee for the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development
    The National Academies is introducing a national committee that will serve as the voice of the U.S. scientific community during the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, which will run from 2021 to 2030. The U.S. National Committee for the Decade is comprised of the experts who...
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  • Tamara Marcus holds one side of BLM banner
    A Movement Not A Moment
    Working to have Black voices heard
    Tamara Marcus, NRESS Ph.D. candidate, helped cofound the Advocates for Social Justice in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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    A Movement Not A Moment
    Working to have Black voices heard
    Tamara Marcus, NRESS Ph.D. candidate, helped cofound the Advocates for Social Justice in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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  • Peter Haber
    Wildcat Spotlight
    Peter Haber '21
    Using Magnetostratigraphy to Find the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary in La Colonia Formation, Patagonia, Argentina
    Peter Haber's research is featured in UNH Inquiry on the asteroid that collided with the Yucatan Peninsula approximately 66 million years ago, marking the end of the Cretaceous period.
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    Wildcat Spotlight
    Peter Haber '21
    Using Magnetostratigraphy to Find the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary in La Colonia Formation, Patagonia, Argentina
    Peter Haber's research is featured in UNH Inquiry on the asteroid that collided with the Yucatan Peninsula approximately 66 million years ago, marking the end of the Cretaceous period.
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