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Mount Holyoke professors have won Guggenheim awards, NASA grants and Carnegie Fellowships.

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Mark McMenamin

Honor

Forced by the pandemic to conduct his geological fieldwork closer to campus, Mark McMenamin discovered a new Jurassic dinosaur (Amherst) and a new pterosaur (South Hadley).

Publication

Moradi, S., Morse, A. C., Murphy, A. B., Pakru, D., & Shehabad, H. (2022). Geographies of precarity and violence in the Kurdish kolberi underground economy. Political Geography, 95, 102562.

Shaina Sadai

Publication

Gomez, N., Sadai, S., et al., (2024) The influence of realistic 3D mantle viscosity on Antarctica’s contribution to future global sea levels. Sci. Adv.10, eadn1470. DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adn1470

Alan Werner

Publication

Edward Elling Berg *, Darrell S Kaufman, R Scott Anderson, Gregory C Wiles, Thomas V Lowell, Edaward A. D. Mitchell, Feng Sheng Hu, Alan Werner, (in press), Late-Glacial and Holocene lake level fluctuations on the Kenai Lowland, reconstructed from satellite-fen peat deposits and ice-shoved ramparts, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Quaternary, 5(23). https://www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/5/2/23

Tuttle, S.E.; Roof, S.R.; Retelle, M.J.; Werner, A.; Gunn, G.E.; Bunting, E.L. (2022) Evaluation of Satellite-Derived Estimates of Lake Ice Cover Timing on Linnévatnet, Kapp Linné, Svalbard Using In-Situ Data. Remote Sensing, 14, 1311.