Dept. of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences @UTK_EEPS
The official Twitter account for the Department of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences at UTK. Follow us because we rock! eeps.utk.edu Knoxville, TN Joined January 2018-
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Dr. Alycia Stigall and colleagues are exploring "earth system engineering" and whether human activities are similar or different from impacts of organisms in the fossil record. artsci.utk.edu/earth-system-e…
EEPS Professor Dr. Linda Kah is a co-author on a new paper in the journal Nature that has garnered significant media attention due to its implications for life on Mars. artsci.utk.edu/ut-part-of-mar…
This week's EEPS seminar speaker is Dr. Mike Babechuk from Memorial University. Dr. Babechuk will be speaking on paleoweathering and paleoredox in Cambrian paleosols. Join us today (9/18) at 4:05pm in Strong B1. EEPS seminar is free and open to the public.
Last week Dr. Sarah Keenan spoke at the EEPS seminar about her work on taphonomy. Keenan, an EEPS alumna (PhD 2014), also received the EEPS Professional Promise Award for Early Career Excellence from EEPS Department Head Dr. Alycia Stigall.
I'm giving a virtual talk tomorrow on the relationship between the lunar crust and the magma ocean, highlighting work by @DianJi2 and @JesseScholpp. Thanks to casamoon.unm.edu for hosting. It'll be fun, join the party! @UTK_EEPS
EEPS Asst. Prof. Dr. Chelsea Mackaman-Lofland has received a generous software license donation from Petex, the proprietors of the MOVE software suite, a geomatic, kinematic, and dynamic modeling program that allows modeling of tectonic processes.
Looking to stay current on the awesome work coming from EEPS? Check the cover of the August edition of PALAIOS! Drew White (MS 2024) and Dr. Dan Hembree published a new paper describing the effects of burrowing arthropods on the sedimentary record of eolian environments.
Welcome to the first day Fall 2025 Volunteers! It has never been a better time to be a Vol!
Summer means field work for our researchers! Graduate student Shymah recently went out to collect Ordovician fossils for her research, with the help of one of our post docs Dr. Kat Jordan-Burmeister.
Congrats to all of our Spring 2025 grads! We are so proud of what you've accomplished. Tell us about where you're heading next in the comments :)
Graduate student Kaitlyn Gauvey and Dr. Linda Kah recently had a new paper come out about how chert forms and what it tells us about Precambrian life. Read it here: frontiersin.org/journals/earth… @ArtsSciencesUT
Our students celebrated the end of the semester recently with "Rock Prom!" We're proud of how far you all have come <3
Some of our students and faculty had the opportunity for inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES) training last week, an instrument that allows for elemental analyses of samples in geology and environmental science. @ArtsSciencesUT
Did you feel the 4.1 earthquake this morning? Our seismometer in Strong Hall did! While earthquakes aren't that uncommon here, we haven't had one that big since 2018. Let us know what you felt!#earthquake

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