Edited by S.C. Pryor
geological sciences
Rituparna Bose, who studied geological sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington, is carrying out groundbreaking research in ecology, evolution, and biodiversity.
Years of work by Indiana University geologists David Bish and Juergen Schieber reached a critical juncture when NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission reached Mars in early August. Bish, the Haydn Murray Chair of Applied Clay Mineralogy, and Schieber, professor of geological sciences, helped develop and will analyze data from two of the 10 instruments included [...]
{ 0 comments }
Stone tools or biting animals? Researchers studying human origins should develop standards for determining whether markings on fossil bones were made by tools or animals, says Indiana University faculty member Jackson Njau in an article in the journal Science. Njau, a co-director of field research at paleontological sites in eastern Africa’s Olduvai Gorge, notes that [...]
{ 0 comments }
