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.
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.
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.
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.
September 15, 2022
UC College of Arts and Sciences associate professor Amy Townsend-Small talks to the WFMP program Sustainability Now! and WOSU's the Ohio Statehouse about Kentucky's leaking oil and gas wells and a new federal initiative to cap them.
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.
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.
October 18, 2022
WVXU and Cincinnati Edition highlight UC's collaboration with Cincinnati area museums to use science shed light on artwork.
November 30, 2022
UC paleontologist Joshua Miller disputes timeline that uses environmental DNA to suggest mammoths died out more recently than we knew.