Mathieu Lapôtre

Stanford planetary scientists have uncovered how sandy waves form on our sister planet at a scale that previously seemed incompatible with the physics of how ripples and dunes arise on Earth. (Source: Stanford News)

The students’ projects aim to explore the carbon-climate feedback in boreal landscapes and analyze sedimentary deposits of Mars-like environments in Chile.

The award encourages student engagement in the American Institute of Professional Geologists, the largest organization committed to promoting geology as a profession. 

A new hypothesis reveals that a global sedimentary cycle driven by seasons could explain the formation of landscapes on Saturn’s moon Titan. The research shows the alien world may be more Earth-like than previously thought.