Earth and Environmental Sciences-Twin Cities

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The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences is involved in scientific research, education, and community service. For more than 125 years, the department has made major contributions toward understanding the Earth's physical and chemical evolution. It has worked to discover solutions to the planet's environmental problems by combining the geosciences with engineering, other physical and biological sciences, and public policy.

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In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Our work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

Jake Bailey
- baileyjumnedu
- Earth and Environmental Sciences-Twin Cities - Professor
Person: Faculty
20052025
Joel D Barker
- barke269umnedu
- Earth and Environmental Sciences-Twin Cities - Research Assistant Professor
Person: Research Faculty
20052024
Emily J Beverly
- ebeverlyumnedu
- Earth and Environmental Sciences-Twin Cities - Assistant Professor
Person: Faculty
20132025

68 Active
397 Finished

Collaborative Research: Teaching data analysis through solid-Earth investigations
Hansen, L. N. (PI)
THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
10/1/25 → 9/30/28
Project: Research project
Resolving ambiguities in Late Pleistocene-Holocene paleoenvironmental records in the Levant using mineral magnetic proxies and paleomagnetic dating
Feinberg, J. M. (PI)
US-ISRAEL BINATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
10/1/25 → 9/30/29
Project: Research project
Support for NOAA's GAIA Satellite Imagery Processing
Porter, C. (PI)
USDOC NAT'L OCEANIC & ATMOSPHERIC ADMIN
9/26/25 → 9/25/26
Project: Research project

¹⁷O_excess in Devils Hole calcite: an indicator of equilibrium fractionation and paleo moisture sources
Affek, H. P., Barkan, E., Tal, Y., Steidle, S. D., Wendt, K. A., Spötl, C., Edwards, R. L., Fishman, E. & Dublyansky, Y., Oct 1 2025, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 667, 119528.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1 Scopus citations
A 12,000-year dinoflagellate cyst record on the Vancouver Island margin, Canada: tracing past climatic, primary productivity and oceanographic conditions
Li, Z., Pospelova, V., Mertens, K. N., Chang, A. S. & Wu, Y., Jun 1 2025, In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 667, 112876.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
A Compact, Low-Cost Sensing System to Enable Distributed Measurements of Urban Tree Transpiration
Chen, X., Schulz, B., Davitt-Liu, I., Wickert, A. D. & Feng, X., May 2025, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 130, 5, e2024JG008653.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
1 Scopus citations

Data for the journal article "Simulation of natural alteration of iron oxides in soil: conversion of synthetic ferrihydrite to hematite without artificial dopants, observed with magnetic methods"
Bilardello, D., Banerjee, S. K., Volk, M. W., Soltis, J. A. & Penn, L. (., Data Repository for the University of Minnesota, 2020
DOI: 10.13020/z44b-2491, http://hdl.handle.net/11299/212031
Dataset
Data for "Late Paleozoic depositional environments and sediment transport directions of the Itararé Group rocks from the state of São Paulo, Brazil, determined from rock magnetism and magnetic anisotropy" collected at the University of Sao Paulo and the U
Bilardello, D., Data Repository for the University of Minnesota, 2020
DOI: 10.13020/jjdx-1m95, http://hdl.handle.net/11299/217532
Dataset
Data for the manuscript: The effect of spatial and temporal variability in plant functional traits on ecohydrological processes in a desert shrubland: a model-data fusion approach.
Liu, S. & Ng, G.-H. C., Data Repository for the University of Minnesota, 2019
DOI: 10.13020/mc6r-kv62, http://hdl.handle.net/11299/204777
Dataset

1 Submitted presentation or panel

Characterizing Bitumen Residues on Paleolithic Stone Tools using SEM, Vibrational Spectroscopy and X-ray Diffraction
Monnier, G. F. (Speaker), Luo, B. (Speaker) & Feinberg, J. M. (Speaker)
Jan 17 2013
Activity: Talk types › Submitted presentation or panel

Electron Microprobe Laboratory
von der Handt, A. (Manager)
Earth and Environmental Sciences-Twin Cities
Equipment/facility: Facility
Energy-dispersive Spectrometry system (EDS)
Earth and Environmental Sciences-Twin Cities
Equipment/facility: Component
JEOL JXA-8530FPlus Electron Probe Microanalyzer
Earth and Environmental Sciences-Twin Cities
Equipment/facility: Equipment

How mud shaped life on Earth
Paola, C.
8/21/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment or Interview
Climate Change Threatens the Ancient Wild Rice Traditions of the Ojibwe
Dockry, M. & Ng, G.-H. C.
6/1/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment or Interview
'Ancient Caves' shows off Science Museum's new movie technology
Edwards, L.
3/12/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment or Interview

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Jake Bailey

Joel D Barker

Emily J Beverly

Collaborative Research: Teaching data analysis through solid-Earth investigations

Resolving ambiguities in Late Pleistocene-Holocene paleoenvironmental records in the Levant using mineral magnetic proxies and paleomagnetic dating

Support for NOAA's GAIA Satellite Imagery Processing

¹⁷O_excess in Devils Hole calcite: an indicator of equilibrium fractionation and paleo moisture sources

A 12,000-year dinoflagellate cyst record on the Vancouver Island margin, Canada: tracing past climatic, primary productivity and oceanographic conditions

A Compact, Low-Cost Sensing System to Enable Distributed Measurements of Urban Tree Transpiration

Data for the journal article "Simulation of natural alteration of iron oxides in soil: conversion of synthetic ferrihydrite to hematite without artificial dopants, observed with magnetic methods"

Data for "Late Paleozoic depositional environments and sediment transport directions of the Itararé Group rocks from the state of São Paulo, Brazil, determined from rock magnetism and magnetic anisotropy" collected at the University of Sao Paulo and the U

Data for the manuscript: The effect of spatial and temporal variability in plant functional traits on ecohydrological processes in a desert shrubland: a model-data fusion approach.

Characterizing Bitumen Residues on Paleolithic Stone Tools using SEM, Vibrational Spectroscopy and X-ray Diffraction

Electron Microprobe Laboratory

Energy-dispersive Spectrometry system (EDS)

JEOL JXA-8530FPlus Electron Probe Microanalyzer

How mud shaped life on Earth

Climate Change Threatens the Ancient Wild Rice Traditions of the Ojibwe

'Ancient Caves' shows off Science Museum's new movie technology

Earth and Environmental Sciences-Twin Cities

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