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.

#RiceEEPS is so excited for #RiceAlumniWeekend! Join us for food, drinks, and celebration Friday, November 7th, from 3-4:30 pm on the KWGL patio before supporting EEPS Ph.D. candidate Valeria Sobolevskaia at her 'Science in a Flash' talk. See flyer for details. Will you join us? #EEPSAlumni

Join Dr. Rogerio Deienno, Lead Scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, TOMORROW, for a talk titled "Chondrite Parent Bodies as Escaped Satellites of Proto-Planetary Embryos." 🗓️ October 30th @ 1 pm 📍Keith-Wiess Geological Laboratories, Room 100 #RiceEEPS #Seminar #Geoscience

🎃 Happy Fall Y’all! 🍂 EEPS graduate students/Geounion celebrated fall by hosting a pumpkin painting event last Thursday on the patio. As the photos show, the nice weather is getting all of EEPS out of their offices and into the sunshine. #RiceEEPS #HalloEEPS #EEPSOween

We made it through midterms, thanks to a much needed fall recess. Current & prospective EEPS and ENVS students enjoyed it by exploring a regional town center and a nature center. Students: ✅ Saw pretty minerals ✅ Learned about nocturnal animals ✅ Saw an Egret in the wild

Want to join the next EEPS 417/617 field trip? Look for the course next fall and swipe to see what else you might find looking for meteorites in the desert... 😅 📷 Linda Welzenbach Fries #RiceEEPS #EEPS417 #FieldTrip #Nevada #GeoScience

The main mission of the EEPS 417/617 field trip was to find Meteorites, or space rocks that make it through Earth's atmosphere and hit the ground (NASA). Students were armed with magnets and, as you can see, many were successful! #RiceEEPS #EEPS417 #Meteorites #Nevada #GeoScienceFieldTrip

Come explore other worlds🪐as you join a field trip for EEPS 417/617 - Cosmochemistry and Meteoritics to Nevada! We will: ✅ Search for meteorites ✅Learn about gypsum formation ✅Get some ASMR from the field trip But first, check out our itinerary. What was/has been your favorite field trip?

Join Dr. Jeff Vervoort, Director of #RadiogenicIsotope & Geochronology Laboratory, TOMORROW, for a talk titled "The Growth of Earth’s Earliest Crust—Unraveling the Isotope Record." 🗓️ October 16th @ 1 pm 📍KWGL, 100 ⚠️ Note: Seminar will no longer be available via zoom.

👋 Hey EEPS, ENVS-EEPS, ENVS-EEB, and prospective undergraduate students! Join EEPS & @rice.rugs THIS FRIDAY for free boba & an information session followed by cloud watching with Dr. Sylvia Dee. We're cirrus 😂 ...it'll be fun ☁️. #RiceEEPS #RiceENVS #InfoSession #RiceUndergrad

Join Dr. Taiyi Wang, O.K. Earl postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology, TOMORROW, for a talk titled "Cascading magmatic unrest and aseismic faulting in the Aegean Sea enabled by elastic stress relay". 🗓️ Oct. 9th @ 1 pm 📍KWGl, Room 100 #RiceEEPS #CalTech

⏪ Throwback to welcoming the class of 2029 to EEPS Join EEPS representatives this Friday, for the School of Natural Sciences Undergraduate Research fair. Swipe for details. #RiceEEPS #RiceENVS #RiceUniversity

Congratulations Dr. Sylvia Dee! Dr. Dee has received the Nanne Weber Early Career Award from AGU's Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Section Please send her many congratulations in the comments 👇 Learn more: news.rice.edu/news/2025/ri...

Join Dr. Susan Bilek, TOMORROW, for a talk titled "Adventures in environmental seismology: Using geophysical, sedimentological, and hydrologic data analysis to explore flow & bedload transport during flood events ". 🗓️ October 2nd @ 1 pm 📍KWGL, Room 100 #RiceEEPS #Seismology

Congratulations Dr. Richard Gordon! Dr. Gordon has been awarded @AmericanGeophysicalUnion (AGU's) Walter H. Bucher Medal Please send him many congratulations in the comments 👇 Learn more: news.rice.edu/news/2025/ri... #AGU #PlateTectonics #Lithosphere #RiceUniversity

Dr. Masiello has been elected fellow of American Geophysical Union, an honor earned by fewer than 0.1% of all AGU members. Please send her many congratulations in the comments 👇 Learn more: news.rice.edu/news/2025/ri... #AGUFellow @AmericanGeophysicalUnion #CarbonCycling #ClimateSolutions

Join Dr. Xiaowei Chen, #TAMU Associate Professor, TOMORROW for a talk titled "Probing fluid-faulting processes within complex fault systems during fluid-induced earthquake sequences". 🗓️ September 25th @ 1 pm 📍KWGl, Room 100 #Earthquake #FaultSystems #RiceEEPS

👋Meet Ellie Moreland, a 5th year PhD student studying planetary geochemistry and surface processes in the EEPS department at #RiceUniversity. 🔴Visit Rice News to learn more: news.rice.edu/news/2025/ne... 👇Put questions for her in the comments. #JezeroCrater #RiceEEPS

Join Dr. Jane W. Baldwin, Assistant Professor at UC - Irvine and Adjunct Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, for a talk titled "The Role of Mountains in Understanding and Simulating Earth's Climate ". 🗓️ September 18th @ 1 pm 📍KWGL, Room 100

🔎Check it out: EEPS has a Fall 2025 100-Level course zine. Special thanks to EEPS & ENVS undergraduates, Ainsley Ganti, Nyla Hartigan, Adam Leff, Nat Pujet, & Charlotte Raymond for volunteering their time this summer to make this happen. It was a hit! #RiceEEPS #EEPSZine

⏪ Flashback to O-Week : EEPS & ENVS had a great time speaking with over 150 incoming ug students at the 2025 Department Orientation & Academic Fair. We are sure we met many future Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Scientists! What helped you decide to study EEPS?

This could be you, smiling and eating BBQ! 🚨 Reminder: Come say hi to your friends and colleagues on September 12th (TODAY), between 4-6pm for the EEPS Welcome Back BBQ. Hope to see you on the patio.

Siebach lab was featured in multiple press releases thanks to their recent Nature paper (lnkd.in/g_fQCkGW) that highlights potential biosignatures found by the #Perserverance rover in #Jezero crater. Read more wherever you consume news or here: wapo.st/4mapyHQ #MarsSampleReturn #RiceUniversity

🏅Congratulations to #RiceEEPS professor, Dr. Richard Gordon, on being named the 2025 recipient of the George P. Woollard Award! This award from the GSA recognizes outstanding contributions to geology through geophysics applications. Learn more: news.rice.edu/news/2025/ri... #WoollardAward #GSA

Join Dr. Allegra Mayer, from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, TOMORROW, for a talk titled "The value of reversible carbon storage in a zero-emissions world". 🗓️ September 11th @ 1 pm 📍Keith-Wiess Geological Laboratories, Room 100 #RiceEEPS #EEPSSeminar

📆 Grad Student Field Trip Day 5 - Rock Hounding 👷 For the final day of the field trip, EEPS grad students got to hunt for their own mineral samples to bring home. They donned hardhats and safety gear...and looked pretty cool. #RiceEEPS #GeoScience #FieldTrip #RockHounding

📆 Grad Student Field Trip Day 4 - Garden of the Gods, Florissant National Monument & Fossil Quary In this video, students got to search for fossils in the Florissant Fossil Quarry. #RiceEEPS #GeoScience #FieldTrip #GardenOfTheGods #FlorissantNationalMonument #FossilQuarry

📆 Grad Student Field Trip Day 3 - #ChasmLake Trail & #RockyMountainNationalPark Day 3 was very eventful with an 8 mile hike at chasm lake and a visit to Rocky Mountain National Park. Students saw beautiful geology, scenery and even some furry friends! #RiceEEPS #GeoScience #FieldTrip

📆 Grad Student Field Trip Day 2 - Colorado School of Mines Geology Trail, Red Rock, & Dinosaur Ridge On day 2, #RiceEEPS visited colleagues at the Colorado school of Mines to examine the Mine's Field Trail and see 🦕 dinosaur tracks, 🍃 fossilized leaves and 🪵log impression

Join Dr. Dev Niyogi, from the Jackson School of Geosciences at UT-Austin, TODAY, for a talk titled "Rainfall Extremes and Building Local Resilience". 🗓️ September 4th @ 1 pm 📍Keith-Wiess Geological Laboratories, Room 100 #RiceEEPS #EEPSSeminar

📆 Grad Student Field Trip Day 1 - Mineral Cleaning Lab Students were all smiles while examining beautifully cleaned minerals at a mineral lab in Denver, Colorado. They learned techniques to transform field specimens into ones fit for display. #RiceEEPS #GeoScience #Minerals

🚨 Registration & housing are NOW OPEN for #AGU25! 🗓️ Key dates: 🔹 6 Nov – Early Bird Registration + Join/Renew membership for discounts 🔹 11 Nov – Housing deadline 🌎 Join us 15–19 Dec in New Orleans: buff.ly/4hT3mJe #WhereScienceConnectsUs

Rice offices will be closed September 1st in observance of labor day. See you on Tuesday, September 2nd. #LaborDay #RiceU #Holiday

👋 Hey current & incoming undergrads, join EEPS and ENVS for snowcones. 🗓️ Friday, September 5th, from 3-4 pm 📍 KWGL patio Any & all undergrads are welcome at the EEPS Welcome (Back) event. Hope to see you there! #RiceEEPS #RiceENVS #WelcomeBack

⁉️ Are you our next faculty member? The Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Rice University, seeks applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position. Learn more or apply by October 15th: eeps.rice.edu/eeps-job-opp...

EEPS is back and so is our weekly seminar! Join Dr. Bijaya B. Karki, visiting professor from the Comp Sci & Engineering Division @LSU for a talk titled "Comp. Simulations of Silicate & Metallic Melts for Structural & Dynamical Insights". 🗓️ August 28th @ 1 pm 📍KWGL, Room 100