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.

#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.