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Life on Mars

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.

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UC student says ancient invasion can inform wildlife conservation

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.

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School of rocks

September 20, 2022

A group of UC Geology graduate students, faculty and alumni saw billions of years of the Earth's history on a field trip to Northern Minnesota and the Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada region in early August 2022.

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Fox19: UC contributes to search for life on Mars

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.

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Discover: What caused the Devonian extinction?

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.