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SES geochemist Laura Wasylenki on a new study confirming the cause of end-Permian mass extinction

Posted by SiteSteward on June 27, 2021

New evidence from nickel isotopes analyzed in Dr. Wasylenki’s lab helps confirm the role of volcanic activity in causing extinctions of both marine and terrestrial species 250 million years ago. Read all about it in the new Nature Communications paper or at NAU News!

Filed Under: Environmental Geochemistry, Publications, Research in the News

SES PhD student awarded Mineralogical Society of America research grant

Posted by SiteSteward on May 27, 2021

PhD student Eva Baransky (Earth & Environmental Science) is one of two awardees nationwide of a Mineralogical Society of America Research Grant. Baransky applied for the grant in order to study what controls the amount of nickel dissolved in the world’s oceans. Nickel is an essential trace metal nutrient for organisms from the bottom to the top of the marine… Read more

Filed Under: Environmental Geochemistry, Research Grants, Student Awards

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