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Carnegie Alum Awarded Geological Society of America’s MGPV Early Career Award

Xiao-Ming Liu presents a poster at the 2014 AGU conference when she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Carnegie Science Geophysical Lab, now Earth and Planets Laboratory.

The Geological Society of America has announced that they will present their Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Division’s Early Career Award to Carnegie alum Xiao-Ming Liu in 2021.

Carnegie Alum Linda Schweizer explores newborn galaxies and icy worlds in her new book, Cosmic Odyssey. Odyssey is a behind-the-scenes look at the past century of astronomical discovery at the Palomar Observatory starting with its opening in 1936.

Carnegie’s Diana Roman collecting samples from Alaska’s Cleveland volcano, one of the most-active volcanoes in the Aleutians. Tana Volcano on Chuginadak Island isn in the background. Photo is courtesy of Anna Barth of Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory

EPL volcanologist Diana Roman discusses why it's important to study volcanoes, how a volcano's "voice" changes over time, her career path, and what it's like being a high-profile woman in the sciences on a recent PlanetGeo Podcast.

Diana Roman talks volcanos, career on PlanetGeo podcast

After spending the summer of 2019 at the Earth and Planets Laboratory (EPL) studying space dust, Samantha “Sammy” Howell has been accepted into a Ph.D. program at Duke University, where she will study civil and environmental engineering.

AAAS and Carnegie announce 2020 fellows

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Richard Carlson, Director of Carnegie’s Earth and Planets Laboratory, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was selected for his “outstanding research, leadership, innovation and service to the community in geochemistry and geology.”

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