🫣 April Fools!

Join experts IN ONE WEEK for the 2026 Industry-Rice Earth Science Symposium (IRESS): "New Frontiers for Geothermal Energy" 📅 April 9th & 10th 📍James A. Baker Hall Register here: riceconnect.rice.edu/events/2026/... To learn more: eeps.rice.edu/iress-2026 #BakerInstitute #RiceEEPS

A $2.54M grant from NASA is supporting new lunar research at Rice University. Professor Bidong Zhang is developing more precise ways to date Moon rocks, advancing goals tied to NASA’s Artemis Program. Read More: news.rice.edu/news/2026/na... #RiceEEPS #NASA #Lunar #ArtemisProgram

Join experts for the 2026 Industry-Rice Earth Science Symposium (IRESS): "New Frontiers for Geothermal Energy: From Hot Rocks to a Future Low-Carbon Grid" 📅 April 9th & 10th 📍James A. Baker Hall Register here: riceconnect.rice.edu/events/2026/... To learn more: eeps.rice.edu/iress-2026

Join Dr. Stephan Kolzenburg, Assistant Professor for the Department of Earth Sciences at University at Buffalo, TODAY, for a talk titled "Recent advances in understanding the rheology of geological melts from lab and field measurements". 🗓️ March 26th @ 1 pm 📍KWGL, Room 100 #RiceEEPS #Seminar

Every once in a while EEPS staff step out of the office for teambuilding. This time, they stepped into the archery range at @x10Archery 🏹 Special thanks to archery teacher, Lynda, for making our staff feel confident at hitting their marks. #RiceEEPS #TeamBuilding #X10Archery

Happy Spring Break! EEPS students, faculty, and staff are celebrating the break by presenting at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Swipe to the end to see the full schedule of #RiceEEPS presenters. #LPSC2026 #Planetary Science #RiceU 📷️ Ellie Moreland & Kirsten Siebach

From trona frogs to the dome rocks of Mt. St. Helens, EEPS faculty brought fun facts and samples from their research area to the first #RiceEEPS Rock Tales and Mocktails social. Add your fun facts in the comments 👇️ #Rocks #StudentLife #RiceUniversity #Geoscience

More than 500 Houston-area kids came to explore activities galore, from the Earth's Core to the outer limits of our Solar System. Read more: news.rice.edu/news/2026/mo... #Outreach #RiceUniversity #RSTEM #Ricespaceinstitute #Astronomy #EarthScience #MarsExporation #Climate #K-12 #Earthquakes

Join Dr. Jinping Hu, Assistant Professor of Planetary Science at the University of Houston, TOMORROW, for a talk titled "Planetary Impact and Hydrothermal Events Revealed by Nano-mineralogy" 🗓️ Date March 12th @ 1 pm 📍Keith-Wiess Geological Laboratories, Room 100 #RiceEEPS #GeoscienceSeminar

I’ll end off with Zabriskie Point, a vista that gave us an amazing view of colorful lake beds and ashflows. With that, I’d love to thank you for following along this week during my takeover! We’ll see you on the next #JohnsonFieldTrip :) -Andy

Hearing that Death Valley was experiencing its first wildflower superbloom in 10 years, we simply had to stop along the side of the road and frolic! EEPS field trips are always full of hiking and rigorous geology with lots of laughs and even singing.

Everyone was super excited to visit Ubehebe Crater. This crater formed by an explosive eruption when magma encountered groundwater and the subsurface. We even said hello to a prairie hawk (thanks @CintyLee for always IDing geologic formations and birds). #UbehebeCrater

Welcome to Badwater Basin, the lowest point in North America! We chose just the right time to visit to walk through salty water after a rainstorm. The salty crust at Badwater Basin forms as a precipitate when water drains to the basin and evaporates. I even got to taste the salt!

Rice’s 24-Hour Challenge is LIVE! Make your gift now at: 🪨 EEPS Human Impacts on the Earth Fund: www.givecampus.com/s/imqfsm 🌎️ Rice Environmental Science Fund: www.givecampus.com/s/pcrx4n #1Day1Rice #RiceENVS #AnnualGiving

How many EEPle can fit into one pothole? That’s what we tried to find out at Fossil Falls! After accidentally going off trail, we found the site of a gorge carved through volcanic rocks by the Owens River, all with a grand backdrop of the Sierra Nevada behind us. #FossilFalls #JohnsonFieldTrip

Hi, I'm Andy, a junior from Brown. Join me this week as I take over #RiceEEPS social media on the 2026 Undergraduate Johnson field trip. Can you guess where we chose this year? #JohnsonFieldTrip #FieldWork #FieldTrip #Geoscience #SocialMediaTakeover @RiceNatSci

🌍✨ Ready to explore Earth, space, and everything in between? Join us at @RiceUniversity for the Rice Earth & Planetary Open House! Free event — families welcome! 📅 Feb 28 | RSVP now: bit.ly/EEPSxOPENHouse #RiceEEPS #RiceU #OpenHouse #Space #Houston #FreeEventHTX #HTXFreeEvents #Science #STEM #HISD

Early giving is now open for this year’s 24-Hour Challenge. Help us get a strong start by making your gift now: 🪨 EEPS Human Impacts on the Earth Fund: www.givecampus.com/s/imqfsm 🌎️ Rice Environmental Science Fund: www.givecampus.com/s/pcrx4n #1Day1Rice #RiceENVS #AnnualGiving

Dr. Sylvia Dee is among an international team working on the Water Isotope Model Intercomparison Project (WisoMIP). This effort models 45 years of current climate data to trace the global water cycle. Read more at news.rice.edu/news/2026/mu... #ClimateScience #ClimateModels #EarthScience

🌍✨ Ready to explore Earth, space, and everything in between? Join us at @RiceUniversity for the Rice Earth & Planetary Open House! Free event — families welcome! 📅 Feb 28 | RSVP now: bit.ly/EEPSxOPENHouse #RiceEEPS #RiceU #OpenHouse #Space #Houston #FreeEventHTX #HTXFreeEvents #Science #STEM #HISD

Last month, EEPS & The Environmental Science Program hosted 38 organizations for the 2nd Annual Rice Green Career Forum. Rice students and beyond explored all the different ways you can work in a "Green" career. Thank you to all of our amazing exhibitors, speakers, & round table discussion leaders!

🌋 Igneous is Bliss will be returning to the Battle of the Bands THIS FRIDAY, and we want YOU there! See you this Friday, February 6th at 7:00 p.m. in Willy's Pub (RMC Basement). If you believe it's time that the 🪨ROCK is put back into ROCK MUSIC, be sure to come to the show!

Interested in how weather conditions during Olympic events may be impacted by Earth's evolving climate? EEPS climate Scientist Dr. Sylvia Dee is available to answer all of your questions. #WinterOlympics #RiceUniversity #RiceEEPS #RiceENVS #Climate #EnvironmentalScience

As the Artemis II mission approaches, #RiceEEPS own Kirsten Siebach is standing by to answer your questions about how robotic exploration of planets such as #Mars can aid upcoming human missions to the moon (Artemis II youtu.be/Ke6XX8FHOHM?...). 📷️ Artemis II mission. NASA

For Rice lecturer Tim Diedesch, the field is a dynamic classroom where Earth’s stories come alive. By revitalizing field methods with active learning, virtual technologies, and culturally informed partnerships, his work expands the accessibility and relevance of geological training. #RiceEEPS

#RiceEEPS PhD student Ellie Moreland, undergraduate Nyla Hartigan, and faculty Sylvia Dee and Kirsten Siebach highlighted after using #ClimateModel to help resolve long-standing puzzles about sustained liquid surface water on early #Mars. Read more here: news.rice.edu/news/2026/th...

Join Dr. Kerstin Lehnert, Senior Research Scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, TOMORROW, for a talk titled "The Billion $$$ Samples: Managing Data for #NASA's #SampleReturn Missions and Samples from Earth". 🗓️ Jan 22nd @ 1 pm 📍KWGL, Room 100 #RiceEEPS

Join #RiceContinuingStudies for a short, non-credit course: Gems, Dirt, and Oil: A Geologic Journey Through Civilization, this spring! This course is open to the public and delivered in person. Learn more here: continue.rice.edu/course?id=58... #GlasscockSchool #RiceEEPS #RiceU

What was #RiceEEPS...errr... Rice Earth Science doing in #2016? ✅ Excellent research ✅ Exciting field Work ✅ Amazing outreach ✅ Pointing at outcrops #2016 #nostalgia #2026 @rains_natsci

Join Dr. Emily Montgomery-Brown, Research Geophysicist for the #USGS, TOMORROW, for a talk titled “ Periodic dike intrusions in Kīlauea's middle East Rift Zone continue post-2018". 🗓️ January 15th @ 1 pm 📍Keith-Wiess Geological Laboratories, Room 100 #RiceEEPS #EarthScience

Join Rice University's Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences in partnership with the Rice Sustainability Institute and the #BakerInstitute Center for Energy Studies for #IRESS2026, April 9 and 10th. #EEPS #EnergyStudies #EarthScience #RiceU, #RiceNatSci

Welcome back EEPS! 🥂 Here's to a spring semester filled with smiles, exemplary research, and quality time with our fantastic community. #RiceEEPS #RiceU #WelcomeBackOwls

Are you looking for a ♻️ "Green" career after graduation? Come to the 2nd Rice U Green Career Forum, NEXT WEEK, on Thursday, January 15th in the Rice Memorial Center from 2-5 PM. For details visit: events.rice.edu/event/416084...

Dear EEPS, we miss you... #RiceEEPS #WinterRecess #ComeBackToSchool

Holiday break time! 🎄 EEPS offices will be closed from December 24, 2025 to January 2nd, 2026 for the winter recess. We will return to our normal business hours January 5th, 2026. Happy Holidays! #RiceEEPS #HappyHolidays

#RiceEEPS is at #AGU2025! (And almost all of our eyes were open for this photo) #RiceUniversity

EEPS EXPLORE supports undergraduate research for all majors. Learn about the program and two EEPS Explorers (Evan Gebhart & Lindsay White) by swiping. ➡️ #RiceUniversity #RiceEEPS #EEPSExplore #UndergraduateResearch

Are you looking for entertainment after enlightenment (3-5 pm on the KWGL patio) this Friday? Look no further - @Igneous.Is_Bliss is performing an end of year show with all new songs! Be there or...are you even their biggest fan? 📍 Lyle's (Lovett Basement) 🕐 6:00 PM #RiceEEPS #IgneousIsBliss

For Rice Associate Professor, Dr. Mark Torres, rivers are natural laboratories holding the secrets to Earth's enduring habitability. His work traces how glaciers, rocks, and rivers control the essential global cycles of carbon and nutrients.

Join Dr. Huilin Gao, Professor - Texas A & M University, TODAY, for a talk titled “Satellite Remote Sensing of Reservoirs: From Science to Application”. 🗓️ December 4th @ 1 pm 📍Keith-Wiess Geological Laboratories, Room 100 #RiceEEPS #Hydrology #GeoScience #ClimateData

Rice offices will be closed in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. Office will reopen on December 1st. #Thanksgiving #RiceU #Holiday

🎷🎶 It's that time of year again— we are creating an #AGU25 Music Playlist! What songs remind you of science, the #AGU25 theme: Where Science Connects Us, or New Orleans? 🎧👉 Submit your song suggestion for the #AGU25 Music Playlist today: buff.ly/i5Tz3et

The department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences (#RiceEEPS) hosted an alumni reception on the KWGL patio, Friday, November 7th for #RiceAlumniWeekend. We asked EEPS alumni what advice they had for current students. What advice do you have for current students?

Join Jeffrey G. Catalano, Professor - Washington University in St. Louis, TOMORROW, for a talk titled “Follow the Electrons: Mineralogical Controls and Signatures of Planetary Habitability.” 🗓️ November 20th @ 1 pm 📍KWGL, Room 100 #RiceEEPS #TectonicProcesses #GeoScience

🚨 News Flash 🚨 Four EEPS Faculty, one graduate student, and one undergraduate student were highlighted in this months "Milestones in Science Newsletter." Read more here: t.co/1430XJEqGF

A view of the mid-Tertiary andesitic porphyry of Cristo Rey in El Paso, straddling the Mexican-US border. The laccolith intruded into Cretaceous sediments, pushing them apart. @riceeeps.bsky.social @riceuniversity.bsky.social geology field trip to west texas

In search of pegmatites in the Precambrian Arabian shield. These dikes show the more fine-grained nature of the dike margins and the coarse-grained nature of the dike core due to differential cooling rates. Saudi Arabia.

Hi, I'm Valeriia Sobolevskaia, an EEPS PhD student, that listens to rain with the buried fiber optic cables that transmit the telecom data we access every day. Learn more about my research by swiping through these photos. Learn more: 11/7, Science in a Flash talk, 5 pm, Brockman 101

Attention #RiceEEPS & Environmental Science undergraduates: Next week is #Advisingweek! Come to one of our advising events or visit our new & improved centralized advising page. Check it out (EEPS.Rice.edu/undergraduate-advising) for clarity on who you should reach out to if you need help.