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Year-Long Exploration Aims to Add Gravity to the Volcano Monitoring Toolkit

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Hélène Le Mével prepares for a year-long study in Chile to study Villarrica volcano, one of the most active volcanoes in the world. The study will include one of the most-extensive monitoring plans to date for the volcano, which is a popular tourist destination. It will also present an opportunity to pioneer the use of gravity as a monitoring tool.

Carnegie Science Earth and Planets Director Richard Carlson receives Geochemical Society's highest honor

Richard Carlson, director of Carnegie’s Earth and Planets division, has been chosen to receive the Geochemical Society’s highest honor, the Victor Moritz Goldschmidt Award, in recognition of his forefront research into the formation of the Solar System and the geologic history of the Earth, the society announced Tuesday.

An artist’s concept of GJ180d, which is the nearest temperate super-Earth to us that is not tidally locked to its star, making it more likely to be able to host and sustain life. Illustration is by Robin Dienel, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Sc

A “cold Neptune” and two potentially habitable worlds are part of a cache of five newly discovered exoplanets and eight exoplanet candidates found orbiting nearby red dwarf stars, which are reported in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series by a team led by Carnegie’s Fabo Feng and Paul Butler.

Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Renamed In Honor Of Vera Rubin

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and its joint funding agencies, the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy, announced Monday that it will be renamed the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in honor of the late Carnegie astronomer whose research confirmed the existence of dark matter.

Carnegie Science had a commanding presence at the 2019 annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, which celebrated the 100th anniversary of AGU this year. Scientists from the Geophysical Laboratory, DTM, and the Department of Global Ecology presented more than 40 talks and posters on groundbreaking research in the fields of ecology, planetary science, geochemistry, geophysics, and cosmochemistry.

2019 Year in Review

It's been an exciting year of discovery and innovation here on the Broad Branch Road campus! Use this interactive timeline to explore the events of 2019.

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