Dickinson College Department of Geosciences

04/17/2026

Budding geoscientists visited our department today!

04/04/2026

Cassa field trip to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. The new bronze bisons were unveiled yesterday!

03/31/2026

https://youtu.be/dwUnAdOnfvw?si=Q8MYLh7bjS0SM8nd

For more than 50 years, Dickinson students have been studying the same small creek and tracking how it bends, shifts, and evolves over time.What began as an ...

07/10/2024

New at online: “Pleistocene to recent evolution of Mocho-Choshuenco volcano during growth and retreat of the Patagonian Ice Sheet” by Moreno-Yaeger et al.

Read this Open Access article at https://doi.org/10.1130/B37514.1.

Photo by Sergio on Unsplash. Mocho-Choshuenco, Panguipulli, Chile.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Dickinson College Department of Earth Sciences Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)

04/05/2024

Cape Henlopin

02/28/2024

Join us tomorrow evening for the 20th Annual Potter Lecture. Our guest lecturer this year is Dr Scott St George, who will also be giving a second talk on Thursday afternoon as a part of our regular lunch and learn seminar series. Hope to see you there!

04/05/2023

10/07/2022

The next edition of the Earth Sciences Lunch and Learn Seminar series is planned for Tuesday, October 11th at 12:05 p.m. in Kaufman 179.

Join us to hear from Professor and Moraine Chair of Arctic Studies, Ben Edwards, Earth Sciences Department, Dickinson College, as he presents, “Arctic and Alpine Expeditions”.

If you are unable to join in person, you may join us at this link via YouTube. https://youtu.be/lbHnESqbVVw

10/05/2022

Join internationally known climate scientists, policymakers and other experts on climate change for the International Climate Symposium hosted by Dickinson College Oct. 24-26. They will be discussing findings from the assessment, why they matter and how they can be used to mobilize more ambitious and equitable actions on climate change.
https://dson.co/3dL9cHW

09/26/2022

The next edition of the Earth Sciences Lunch and Learn Seminar Series will be held on Tuesday, September 27th at 12:05 p.m. in Kaufman 179 and Live Streamed at https://youtu.be/JwmmJEKDdtw


Please join us to hear from Dr. Steven Jasinski, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology as he presents, “Recent work in San Juan Basin and what it means for Late Cretaceous dinosaurs and ecosystems”.

Steven Jasinski from the Department of Environmental Sciences at Harrisburg University will deliver a talk entitled "Recent work in the San Juan Basin and wh...