Geophysicist at NM Bureau of Geology Has Research Published
By George Zamora
Marshall Reiter, principal senior geophysicist at the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (NMBGMR), is the author of two recently published research papers focusing on extended studies of subsurface temperature measurements taken at field sites at Tom?, N.M. and Arroyo del Coyote near Socorro. View Entire Article »
The Rio Grande Rift: A Continent "Stretched Like Taffy"
By Karl Hill
Using a vast array of seismic instruments reaching nearly 600 miles across the desert Southwest, scientists from New Mexico, Texas and Arizona have produced the most detailed images yet of the geology up to hundreds of miles beneath the Rio Grande Rift. View Entire Article »
Geochronology Lab Dates 4.5 Million-Year-Old Hominid Fossils
By George Zamora
A recent article published in the prestigious science journal Nature that reports on new Early Pliocene hominid discoveries in Gona, Ethiopia, has a strong connection to a research lab based in Socorro, New Mexico. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Professors Co-Author Chapters in Rio Chagres Book
By George Zamora
A hydrologist and geologist at New Mexico Tech are co-authors of several chapters included in a newly published book that focuses on one of the most important and complex tropical rainforest regions in the world?the greater Panama Canal Watershed. View Entire Article »
CRONUS-Earth Project Seeks To Improve Accuracy of Geo-Dating
By George Zamora
A New Mexico Tech geoscientist who developed an accurate method of dating geological landforms by measuring localized accumulations of radioactive elements on the Earth's surface is now spearheading a national effort to improve the accuracy and reliability of the widespread applications of these types of geochronology methods. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Geochem Professor Presents Mantle Plume Research
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech geochemistry professor Kent Condie recently gave a technical presentation on a global mantle plume event he is currently studying at Earth System Processes 2, an international convention for about 350 geoscientists which was held this week in Calgary, Canada. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech Math Faculty and Students Attend MathFest
By George Zamora
Several faculty and students from the New Mexico Tech Department of Mathematics recently gave technical presentations on their current research at the Mathematical Association of America's annual "MathFest" national convention, which was held earlier this month in the Albuquerque Convention Center. View Entire Article »
Taber of PRRC Granted New Patent
By Liz Bustamante
The appearance of US Patent Number 6,905,504 on June 14, 2005, "Method of Converting Feed Water to Fresh Water," marked a special occasion at the PRRC, representing the culmination of several years of research and study by Dr. Joseph J. Taber, PRRC Director Emeritus. View Entire Article »
NMT geoscientists present research at GSA annual meeting
By George Zamora
Several New Mexico Tech geoscientists are in Salt Lake City, Utah, presenting talks and posters about their current research at the 117th annual meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA), which is being held October 16-19 at the Salt Palace Convention Center. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Undergrad To Assist with Field Study in Antarctica
By Shawna Carter
New Mexico Tech undergrad Kyle Jones will soon be packing his luggage with some of his warmest clothes, since he will be assisting Tech geology professors Philip Kyle and Bill McIntosh later this fall semester in a National Science Foundation-sponsored geologic field study of Mount Erebus in Antarctica. View Entire Article »
French school teachers come to Tech to study Rio Grande Rift
By George Zamora
A contingent of teachers from French schools from throughout the United States and Canada recently traveled to the New Mexico Tech campus in Socorro to attend a weeklong workshop on geologic topics concerning the Rio Grande rift. View Entire Article »
NMT's PRRC Receives DOE Research Grant
By Shawna Carter
New Mexico Tech's Petroleum Recovery Research Center (PRRC) was recently awarded a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) research grant to assist in the creation of a database system that compiles accumulated data from northwestern New Mexico's San Juan Basin gas and oil wells. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Students Help Study Questa Mine
By Shawna Carter
For the past two years, New Mexico Tech undergraduate and graduate students have been assisting in an ongoing Molycorp-sponsored research project that focuses on the effects of weathering on the physical stability of the Questa Mine rock piles in northern New Mexico. View Entire Article »
NM Tech undergrad takes second at AMP research competition
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech student researcher Henry Jauregui earned second place in the oral presentation competition at the New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation's (AMP) Annual Undergraduate Student Research Conference, which was held recently on the New Mexico State University campus. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Professor Garners DOE Research Grant
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech mechanical engineering professor Sayavur Bakhtiyarov is the latest researcher at the state-supported research university to be awarded a major U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) research grant. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Grad Student Studies Water Decontamination Process
By Shawna Carter
New Mexico Tech graduate student Craig Altare recently presented his research findings concerning the removal of organic contaminants from produced water at the annual convention of the Geological Society of America. View Entire Article »
NM Tech's PRRC uses Nanotechnology to Monitor Gases
By Shawna Carter
New Mexico Tech researchers Hai Xiao, assistant professor of electrical engineering, and Junhang Dong, assistant professor of chemical engineering, recently teamed up with scientists at Arizona State University (ASU) to start a research project titled "Development of Nanocrystalline Doped-Ceramic Enabled Fiber Sensors for High-Temperature In-Situ Monitoring of Fossil Fuel Gases." View Entire Article »
Fred Phillips Receives GSA's Kirk Bryan Award
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech hydrology professor Fred M. Phillips recently was named the co-recipient of the Geological Society of America's (GSA) 2005 Kirk Bryan Award for Research Excellence. View Entire Article »
NM Bureau of Geology Staffer Makes Presentation on Research
By George Zamora
Virginia T. "Ginger" McLemore, senior economic geologist at the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (NMBGMR), recently gave a technical presentation on her current research at the 39th annual meeting of the South-Central Section of the Geological Society of America (GSA), which was held last week at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. View Entire Article »
