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Recent news from the Mackay School
Chris Kratt travels to Antarctic to set up temperature sensing devices and retrieve data
How old are the Sierra Nevada mountains, really?
Researchers in the Deparment of Geological Sciences and Engineering weigh in on a hotly debated topic in tectonics and geomorphology: the age of the Sierra Nevada mountain range
Faces of the Pack: Isabel Peñaloza Araujo
As a first-generation Latina in mining, Isabel Peñaloza Araujo feels proud of her accomplishments, especially as an international student in the U.S. She is well on her way to accomplishing plenty more
Yellowstone flooding response includes geotechnical surveys
Assistant geological engineering professor Michael Gardner visited the sites of flooding in Yellowstone National Park to determine how geostructure integrity was compromised
