July 19, 2022
University of Cincinnati geologist Thomas Algeo tells Discover Magazine that global cooling and the depletion of oxygen in the oceans could have led to a mass extinction more than 360 million years ago.
August 2, 2022
Spectrum News talks to UC students and their professor about their participation on the NASA science team exploring Mars with the Perseverance rover. UC geologists are helping to look for evidence of ancient life on Mars.
January 24, 2023
UC paleontologist Joshua Miller tells Forbes that environmental DNA can persist for centuries or even millennia, making it unreliable as a barometer for dating extinction events.
February 21, 2023
UC assistant professor Joshua Miller tells Cabin Radio that caribou have been using the same calving grounds in Alaska and Canada for 3,000 years.
June 24, 2022
UC College of Arts and Sciences associate professor Andy Czaja and his students are on NASA's science team using the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter to look for evidence of ancient life on Mars.
August 26, 2022
University of Cincinnati geologists reconstructed a massive landslide in Nevada that wiped out an area the size of a small city more than 5 million years ago.
October 14, 2022
Ian Forsythe studies geology in UC’s College of Arts and Sciences. He examined the fossil record to examine how one well-known invasion of animals that impacted surrounding flora and fauna in the vast shallow seas that covered the Midwestern United States during the Ordovician Period. He presented his findings to the annual conference of the Geological Society of America.
September 6, 2022
UC assistant professor Daniel Sturmer talks to Cincinnati Edition about what we can learn about landslides from a disaster that occurred millions of years ago.
July 11, 2022
The first year of the Perseverance rover mission on Mars captured the imaginations of scientists and the public alike with an interplanetary helicopter flight and the first chance to hear the sounds of the red planet. But two students at the University of Cincinnati say the best is yet to come in year two as the rover and their NASA science team begin in earnest to look for ancient life on another planet.
April 5, 2023
Scientists say the Marinoan Ice Age was one of the most extreme in the planet’s history, creating glacial ice that persisted for 15 million years. But new evidence collected in China suggests the Earth was not completely frozen — at least not toward the end of the ice age.