October 19, 2021

UC associate professor Amy Townsend-Small explains the environmental risk of uncapped natural gas wells in Appalachia.

October 21, 2021

UC professor Brooke Crowley uses isotopic analysis of feathers to track the origins of wide-ranging hawks and falcons. The technique could help identify important habitat for conservation.

December 9, 2021

The University of Cincinnati has been awarded a $25,000 grant from Duke Energy to buy and install a system to monitor water quality in the Great Miami River, an area that affects the drinking water of 2.5 million residents.  The grant, which was awarded in early October, has provided the remaining financial support needed after grants from the Miami Conservancy District, University of Cincinnati Dept. Of Geology, and a matched $25,000 grant from the UC Office of Research. Targeted Compound Monitoring is the company which will provide the needed equipment.

October 27, 2021

University of Cincinnati interdisciplinary research reveals ancestral puebloans in ancient Chaco Canyon interacted with local ecosystem to thrive for more than a millennium, but unsustainable deforestation practices likely contributed to destabilizing environmental impact prior to their final exodus.

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 27, 2022

The New York Times highlighted research by geologists and anthropologists at the University of Cincinnati who used isotopic analysis to track the seasonal migration of a mastodon across the Midwest more than 13,000 years ago.

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.