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A river reef on Tetiaroa.

Island rivers carve passageways through coral reefs

June 20, 2025

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Research, Students + Postdocs

Pictures of Taylor and Lisa Perron next to each other, with the cover of the children’s picture book “All the Rocks We Love” superimposed on top.

Q&A: Helping young readers explore curiosity about rocks through discovery and play

July 15, 2024

Categories: Faculty

The surface of Titan, containing lake-shaped crevices.

Study: Titan’s lakes may be shaped by waves

June 19, 2024

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Planets, Research

An Amazonian village with about 20 huts that form a large a ring around an empty, brown, circular area. Lots of trees are around the village.

Ancient Amazonians intentionally created fertile “dark earth”

September 20, 2023

Categories: Faculty, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

Radar image of a lake taken from high above Titan's surface shows liquid areas as dark blue and land areas as dark yellow.

Studying rivers from worlds away

July 10, 2023

Categories: Faculty, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

Illustration has a black, rocky background, a large river forks off. A large greenfin darter is overlayed on the large river. The 3 forks each have smaller greenfin darters, each with a unique colorful glow.

River erosion can shape fish evolution, study suggests

May 25, 2023

Categories: Faculty, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

5 vertical photos show granular objects: marbles, glass beads, seaglass, rocks, and plastic beads.

Moving water and earth

January 11, 2023

Categories: Faculty, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Research, Students + Postdocs

Perron appointed to named chair; Bosak receives Fundamental Science Investigator Award

October 18, 2022

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty

Topographies that talk

April 27, 2022

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Profile

Taylor Perron receives 2021 MacArthur Fellowship

September 28, 2021

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty

Students in the Surface Processes Group on learning the lay of the land

April 28, 2021

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Life + Environments, Profile, Research, Students + Postdocs

EAPS summer UROPs hit the 90s

July 13, 2020

Categories: Community, Research, Students + Postdocs

3 Questions: Harnessing wave power to rebuild islands

May 11, 2020

Categories: Life + Environments, Research

Titan’s missing river deltas and an Earthly climate connection

March 26, 2020

Categories: Climate, Community, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Planets, Profile, Students + Postdocs

Scientists quantify how wave power drives coastal erosion

March 16, 2020

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Research

How Long will a Volcanic Island Live?

January 1, 2020

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Hazards, Research