Chair’s Welcome
Greetings and welcome to the Fall 2023 department newsletter! It’s been a very busy time of year with new faculty onboarding and with many faculty and student successes and experiences to show. Please see below information about our new faculty and recent department updates, awards, and events. Check out our website for how to get involved with EAS.
Take care!
Tom Lapen
Chair, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
In This Issue
Awards & Honors
- University of Houston Research Professor Flynn Awarded $1.2M Grant to Assess Impacts of Biomass Burning on Texas Air Quality
- Three Students Win UH Student Research Grants in 5th Semester of Program
- Geophysics Ph.D. Student Larkin Spires Named Inaugural UH-Chevron Energy Graduate Fellow
- Geophysics Ph.D. Student Sharmila Appini Receives Student Presentation Award at Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting
- Ph.D. Students Ramos and Beltran Win Student Poster Awards at GeoGulf Conference
- UH Faculty Receive $1 Million from NSF to Fund Field Investigations and Experiences Leading to Degrees in Geoscience (FIELDGeo)
Student Spotlight
Journey to the Smithsonian: Flynn Earns Prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowship
Flynn among handful chosen to further research at National Museum of Natural History.
International Summer School in Brazil Gives Ph.D. Student Ali Raza Rare Research Opportunity in Caves
Program offers collaborative research experience for international group of speleothem scientists.
EAS Geology Major Appointed as Student Councilor-at-Large for AIPG-Texas Section
Bailey Hodakievic to serve on AIPG-TX Board and as President of Texas Statewide Student Chapter.
NASA Program Gives Two EAS Students a New Perspective on Environmental Science Research
Environmental and atmospheric sciences students collaborate with NASA experts during Student Airborne Research Program.
UH Geology Students and Professors Study Sedimentary Facies in Washington
Students study regional differences in deposition: Glaciation and catastrophism in Whidbey Island, Channeled Scablands, and Willapa Bay, WA.