Deep within the bowels of the University of Minnesota, a plastic tube filled with mud from an Indonesian lake bed inches its way through a machine. By the time the sediment completes its pass through ...

In 2012, an 85-year-old scientist and his son-in-law pulled a cylinder of muck from a faraway island. They carried it home like a newborn baby, froze it, and mailed it to a researcher across the ...

Core samples taken in the African Rift Valley could help to clarify how past climate change is connected to human history and evolution. An international collaboration of researchers led by several UA ...

First surveyed in 1998, the Sur Pockmark Fields stretch along California’s central coastline and lie in an area ripe for future wind energy installations. Using a fleet of underwater robots to gather ...

Researchers supported by FAPESP proposed a procedure based on analyses of quartz and feldspar grains transported to the Atlantic Ocean by the Parnaíba River in Brazil's Northeast region. Mendes and ...

Our two labs help process and analyze sediment samples and sediment cores collected from terrestrial, lake, and marine environments. We perform chemical and physical analyses on sediments and other ...