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- - Geological Society of America honors Sterling Nesbitt with Young Scientist Award
    Nesbitt's research focuses on the evolution of Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrate fossils through major Earth events, such as climate change, and extinction events, with a keen interest in reptile evolution.
- - Steve Holbrook named head of Department of Geosciences in College of Science
    Holbrook previously was a professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming, where he also co-directed the Wyoming Center for Environmental Hydrology and Geophysics.
- - Virginia Tech researchers discover hottest lavas that erupted in past 2.5 billion years from Earth’s core-mantle boundary
    Researchers led by the Virginia Tech College of Science discovered that deep portions of Earth’s mantle might be as hot as they were more than 2.5 billion years ago.
- - Virginia Tech students present at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research
    The Office of Undergraduate Research sent eight students to the University of Memphis for the national conference earlier this month.
- - Virginia Tech scientists discover early dinosaur cousin had a surprising croc-like look
    The finding fills a critical gap in the fossil record. Teleocrater, living more than 245 million years ago during the Triassic Period, pre-dated dinosaurs.
- - Virginia Tech researchers fill critical gap in fossil record of Chinese phytosaurs
    The team re-evaluated and re-classified the animal, Diandongosuchus fuyuanensis, which had previously been labeled as a poposauroid, a group of animals more closely related to crocodiles.
- - Undergraduate researchers represent Virginia Tech at the ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference
    Funded by ACC athletics, the conference demonstrates both the collaborative relationship that exists between athletics and academics and the conference’s commitment to excellence in education. The annual meeting was held March 21 to April 2.
- - Global Change Center researchers help water authority create ‘best water possible,’ prepare for warmer temperatures
    A Virginia Tech team has installed oxygenation systems in three reservoirs that serve Roanoke and surrounding county residents and are monitoring them to see how increased oxygen levels affect the amount of metals in the water.
- - Virginia Tech teams with Colorado School of Mines to help success rates of minerals explorations
    Virginia Tech researchers are working with the Colorado School of Mines to use earth science and mining expertise to create data sets and 3-D software models that better locate, categorize, and visualize mineral resources.
- - Marc Edwards and Shuhai Xiao named as Virginia Outstanding Scientists for 2017
    The Science Museum of Virginia and Gov. Terry McAuliffe have named Marc Edwards, of the College of Engineering, and Shuhai Xiao, of the College of Science, as Outstanding Scientists for 2017.
- - Patricia Dove awarded Thomas Jefferson Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Natural Science
    The C.P. Miles Professor of Science in the Virginia Tech Department of Geosciences, Dove is considered an international leader in the field of biomineralization, the processes by which animals grow skeletons and other functional structures.
- - Virginia Tech geoscientists size-up early dinosaurs, find surprising variation
    The study focused on the skeletal changes that occurred during growth in the small carnivorous dinosaur Coelophysis.
- - Virginia Tech researchers explore gigantic volcanic eruptions that caused worldwide mass extinctions
    Esteban Gazel, an assistant professor in the Department of Geosciences, leads research that confirms massive volcanic eruptions that triggered environmental catastrophes and mass extinctions.
- - Unusual new species of extinct reptile shows dinosaurs copied body, skull shapes of distant relatives
    Iconic dinosaur shapes were present in animals for at least 100 million years before the dinosaurs themselves actually appeared, according to discoveries by a Virginia Tech scientist.
- - Undergraduate researcher leads study naming a new species of reptile from 212 million years ago
    College of Science undergraduate researcher Emily Lessner has named a new subspecies of archosaur, to be called Vivaron haydeni, in a scientific paper published this week.
- - Geological Society of America elects Nancy Ross as Fellow
    Ross' research focuses on mineral physics and crystal chemistry. She also serves as co-director of the X-ray Crystallography Laboratory.
- - American Geophysical Union honors Geosciences’ Esteban Gazel with 2016 Hisashi Kuno Award
    Gazel joined the College of Science faculty in 2011. His group’s research focuses on processes that produce magmas and volcanoes, and contribute to the planet’s evolution, including mantle melting and the origin of continents.
- - Well-preserved fossils show ostrich relatives lived in North America 50 million years ago
    Completely intact with bones, feathers, and soft tissues, the fossils are a previously unknown relative of the modern-day ostrich. The artifacts were named and studied by Sterling Nesbitt of Virginia Tech’s College of Science.
- - Esteban Gazel joins GeoPRISMS Distinguished Lectureship Program for 2016-17
    Gazel and three academic experts in geosciences will visit U.S. colleges and universities to present lectures on subjects related to earth sciences.
- - Geosciences team to place GPS sensors around Tanzanian volcano in effort to predict eruptions
    Assistant Professor D. Sarah Stamps of geosciences is launching an observatory in Tanzania to track activity of the famed volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai, the Mountain of God.

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