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  1. A global competition to combine AI with climate solutions has named a project led by Elizabeth Yankovsky, Assistant Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences, as one of two Yale-related projects among its winning ideas.

    Yale’s Luke Gloege (left) and Elizabeth Yankovsky are part of a team developing a highly advanced forecasting system for marine carbon dioxide removal strategies.
  2. An international team including David Evans, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, may have solved a magnetic field mystery contained in 565-million-year-old rocks.

    David Evans, left, and James Pierce in the Yale Paleomagnetic Laboratory.  (Photo by Allie Barton)
  3. A research partnership between Yale and the University of São Paulo (USP), led by Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences David Evans, is advancing new understanding of Earth’s early geological history.

    Photo from the Namibia expedition, courtesy of David Evans
  4. A new study led by Damanveer Singh Grewal, an assistant professor of Earth and planetary science in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, suggests that planetesimals in the early solar system emerged from a succession of high-energy collisions.

    Image of two asteroids colliding in space (Illustration by Michael S. Helfenbein with AI-generated images).
  5. In a Q&A, geochemist Gabby Kitch talks about an innovative Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture project—based in part on science conducted by faculty in the Department for Earth and Planetary Sciences—that will accelerate the oceans’ natural ability to store carbon dioxide.

    Gabby Kitch. Photo credit: Allie Barton
  6. Lidya Tarhan, Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, speaks to Yale News about her new study that tracks the evolution of marine sediment layers across hundreds of millions of years.

    Lidya Tarhan examines a rock specimen under a bright light.
  7. Skinner, a prominent figure in the field of medical geology, was also among the first women to lead a residential college at Yale.

    H. Catherine Skinner
  8. FAS chemists, evolutionary biologists, and geochemists make waves with their latest research and collaborations.

    Illustration of molecules on top of a background of numbers. Image credit: Michael Helfenbein.
  9. The evolutionary path from dinosaurs to birds included the development of a tiny wrist bone that ultimately proved crucial for stabilizing wings in flight.

    A life reconstruction of the specimen of Citipati, a dinosaur closely related to birds, analyzed with an x-ray cutaway of the specimen’s wrist. The small and rounded pisiform is highlighted in blue. Image credit: Henry S. Sharpe/University of Alberta.
  10. In the latest “Rose Walk and Talk,” Yale paleontologist Bhart-Anjan Bhullar shares his thoughts — just in time for the next “Jurassic World” movie — on which dinosaurs would have been most aggressive around humans.

    Still image of a tyrannosaurus rex model, captured from the 1925 movie, "The Lost World."