News in 2020 - Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences - Purdue University Skip to main content

News in 2020

Q&A with Aaron Goldner: From climate researcher to senior policy advisor
12/18/2020

Asteroid explorer collects first samples thought to be rich in organic compounds; a Purdue scientist will be among the first to study
12/16/2020

EAPS professor makes unexpected changes in atmospheric class to maximize student experience during the pandemic
12/7/2020

As the Oceans Warm, Hurricanes Stay Stronger Longer
11/16/2020

New seismic research helps understand the volcanic activity in Alaska
11/12/2020

Warmer seas keep hurricanes stronger for longer, study says
11/12/2020

Clouds and Climate Change
11/6/2020

Intensive irrigation in India enhances deadly 'moist heat stress', study finds
11/4/2020

Purdue scientist reflects on her passion for studying Mars’ geology, landscape
11/4/2020

EAPS PhD student using earthly examples to explore Mars earns two awards
10/23/2020

Ask a Scientist: Dr. Michelle Thompson discusses NASA's OSIRIS-REx
10/20/2020

We could slow climate change by dimming the sun. But should we?
10/20/2020

Full Steam Ahead Podcast Episode 74 – Purdue’s Connection to NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Mission
10/16/2020

Remembering Jay Melosh, Planetary Scientist
10/15/2020

ISGC fellowship awarded to EAPS graduate student who works with Apollo Mission lunar samples
10/7/2020

A better understanding of how cirrus clouds form
10/2/2020

Water on Mars: Discovery of Three Buried Lakes Intrigues Scientists
09/30/2020

Is there other life in the universe? Purdue scientist is ready to search for the answers
09/29/2020

Purdue planetary scientists may have solved the mystery of our Moon's South Pole-Aitken Impact Basin
09/25/2020

Using engineering to strengthen human bones
09/24/2020

With A Wing And A Grant, SBU Researchers Set To Soar
09/24/2020

Remembering Barbara Gibson
09/16/2020

Scientists drove radars inside Hurricane Laura’s fiercest winds, hoping to unravel their mysteries
09/8/2020

Did life on Earth come from space? Chummy microbes offer clues.
08/27/2020

Meet the new faculty for the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University
08/27/2020

Purdue Faculty Funded in NSF Project to Examine Interfaces for Materials Transport in the Environment
08/26/2020

College of Science Outreach awarded grant for Geo STEM
08/19/2020

Graduate Students Laura Chaves and Adeene Denton awarded NASA FINESST Grants
08/7/2020

Meet the EAPS Faculty planting their scientific footprints on Mars
07/29/2020

NASA’s big move to search for life on Mars – and to bring rocks home
07/29/2020

NASA Mars Rover: How Perseverance will hunt for signs of past life
07/27/2020

Has life existed beyond Earth? Purdue professor going to great lengths to find out.
07/22/2020

Deadly combination of heat and humidity increasing worldwide
07/15/2020

Bubbling methane emissions caused by ice-free days in Arctic lakes
07/10/2020

How do you teach when everything changes world-wide at once? EAPS professors share how they managed teaching during a pandemic
07/9/2020

NASA Early Career Fellowship awarded to Dr. Michelle Thompson
07/7/2020

Bubbling methane emissions caused by ice-free days in Arctic lakes
07/7/2020

COSUAM de Puerto Rico’s Sustainable Schools Program receives 2020 National Energy Globe Award
07/6/2020

Tremblay awarded the GSA Doris M. Curtis Outstanding Woman in Science Award
07/1/2020

'Carbon Farming' Could Make US Agriculture Truly Green
06/24/2020

Graduate students awarded 2020 Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowships
06/5/2020

Evidence that Mars Used to Have a Ring
06/4/2020

Graduating during a pandemic: spotlight on Robert Wayne Swisher
05/29/2020

Meet Amanda Rudolph, NSF grant recipient
05/20/2020

Humidity and heat extremes are on the verge of exceeding limits of human survivability, study finds
05/12/2020

Laura Pyrak-Nolte selected to receive award from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists
05/12/2020

NASA's Perseverance Rover Will Look at Mars Through These 'Eyes'
05/6/2020

NASA's Mars 2020 Will Hunt for Microscopic Fossils
05/6/2020

Why NASA plans to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid
05/6/2020

Impacts on Asteroids Produce Regolith, Erase Small Craters
04/23/2020

Collision on one side of Pluto ripped up terrain on the other side; study suggests
04/21/2020

Xinyue Wang Awarded NCAR ASP Postdoctoral Fellowship
04/10/2020

EAPS Awards Banquet presented virtually this year due to COVID-19
04/10/2020

World Water Day 2020 podcast by Dr. Marty Frisbee
04/7/2020

Ancient Impact’s Seismic Waves Reveal Pluto’s Ocean, Core
04/6/2020

Briony H. Horgan is named Associate Professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
04/3/2020

Prof. Chavas receives NSF CAREER Award
02/27/2020

Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 550 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2051 • Phone: (765) 494-3258 • Fax: (765) 496-1210 • Contact Us

Copyright © 2024 Purdue University | An equal access/equal opportunity university | Copyright Complaints | DOE Degree Scorecards

Trouble with this page? Accessibility issues? Please contact the College of Science.