News & Updates

CPCL team members are on the move!

In the land of the rising sun

Left: Backscatter SEM micrograph (left) and SEM-EDS false color map for sulfur (right) showing needle-like anhydrite crystals extending...

All work and no play, make CPCL researchers dull and boring…

CPCL team members do a lot more than produce top-notch research. We also like to have fun by getting out of the lab! On one of our team...

Can you spot the dolomite crystals?

This SE-SEM micrograph shows small dolomite rhombohedra in a section of core harvested from the Brown-Snowplow 1-5 well in the Michigan...

DOE-Funded CCS Research Assistantship, Western Michigan University

The Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences at Western Michigan University is currently recruiting a M.S. or Ph.D. student to...

We couldn’t be prouder!

A huge congratulations to CPCL star researcher, Mohammed Al-Musawi, for recently defending his Ph.D. dissertation. Throughout his time at...

These clays stand tall

This SE-SEM micrograph shows an example of the rare diagenetic, illite clays that occur in a core sample from the Brown-Snowplow 1-5 well...

The CPCL crosses the Atlantic!

CPCL team members, Steve Kaczmarek, Ariel Martin, and Ashley Scott, traveled to Dubrovnik, Croatia in June 2023 for the 36th...

Course-based scientific research is publishable!?

A typical graduate course involves lectures and laboratory activities covering a wide range of high-level scientific topics. We’ve...

Undergraduate researchers to shine at the NC-GSA conference, May 4-5!

A number of the undergraduate researchers who completed the Advanced Earth Materials (GEOS 5100) course last fall will be presenting...

CPCL researchers to invade the NC-GSA Meeting, May 4-5!

CPCL researchers look to make their presence known at the upcoming regional North-Central Geological Society of America meeting, which...