Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Faculty Honors

EAS Professor Simon Brassell has been elected a Fellow of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry. This award recognizes Simon’s role in developing the fieldof molecular biogeochemistry.

Ed Herrmann, EAS Research Scientist and Executive Director of the IU Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The Society for American Archaeology, the leading archaeological association in North America, has awarded its highest honor for archaeological curation to the IU Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

EAS Senior Lecturer Cody Kirkpatrick and Associate Professor Jackson Njau received Trustees’ Teaching Awards (TTA). The TTA is awarded to the top 6 % of tenured and tenure-track faculty members and to the top 6 % of full-time lecturer rank faculty, clinical faculty, or professors of practice who have demonstrated that they are the best teachers in their unit.

EAS Professor David Polly has been named an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow for distinguished contributions to the field of vertebrate paleontology, particularly for original studies in morphometrics, for quantitative analyses in paleobiology, and for innovative studies on mammalian evolution.

EAS Professor Juergen Schieber received the Sorby Medal in recognition “of his extensive research that has revolutionized our understanding of mud and shale sedimentology.”

EAS Professor Juergen Schieber has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for 2022-2023 for his work with the Institute of Marine Science, Italian National Research Council at Bologna University.

Student Honors

EAS Graduate Student Danielle Peltier has received a prestigious grant from the Leakey Foundation for her dissertation work. The grant provides $12,000 for her project titled “The drivers of faunal community dynamics and its implications on hominin occupation during Bed II times, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.”

EAS PhD Candidate Anne Kort has received a McCormick Science Grant. Anne is doing research on the evolution of Cenozoic mammals using a combination of 3D analysis, artificial intelligence algorithms, and primary description of fossils and their geological context.

Anne has a podcast! The Virtual Paleontologist

Watch the podcast here