April

Geoscience Senior Wins Research Award on Scotia Sea Temperature and Ice

Garrett Strittmatter, senior in the Department of Geoscience, won the Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists (Greater Pittsburgh Chapter) Best Poster Award at the Pittsburgh Geological Society annual student research night. Strittmatter presented his senior research project, a microfossil-based assessment of temperature and sea ice conditions in the Scotia Sea from the present to the last glacial.

February

Warnock and Colleagues Publish on Oceanographic Changes in Southern Ocean

Working in a team of international scientists as a result of participation in International Ocean Discovery Project Expedition 382, “Iceberg Alley and SubAntarctic Ocean Dynamics,” Jonathan Warnock helped to assess the timing of past climatic shifts in the Antarctic relative to the rest of the globe. The study shows Antarctica changing simultaneously to the global record for only the last million years.