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On Friday, 29 November 2024, the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences celebrated this year's Master's degree graduation ceremony. Congratulations to our successful graduates!

The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences has nominated the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Susan Trumbore, for an honorary doctorate from ETH Zurich. She received the award on the occasion of this year's ETH Day on 16 November 2024.

Valentina Espitia Mendoza – Master's student in the Structural Geology and Tectonics group – received an ESOP scholarship.

The Tibetan Plateau, known as the "Roof of the World", spans 2.5 million square kilometers with an average elevation over 4000 meters. A new study in Nature Geoscience suggests that mantle delamination of the overriding plate may explain the mysterious formation of this vast region.

Researchers have precisely dated zircon crystals from the Moon and found that most of the analysed crystals are around 4.338 billion years old. They bear witness to a huge impact at the South Pole of the Moon and shed new light on the early phase of our solar system.

Madeleine Santos and Ali Ahmed Shaikhsulaiman were honoured with the ETH-Medal for their outstanding Master's theses. The prizes were awarded at this year's Master's degree graduation ceremony. Congratulations! 

The rockslide that occured during the night from 15 to 16 June 2023 above the village of Brienz was one of the largest in the Swiss Alps in recent years, displacing more than 1 million cubic meters of material.

Luca Dal Zilio will be presented with the AGU Jason Morgan Early Career Award. The award is presented annually to an early career scientist for outstanding and significant contributions to tectonophysics through a combination of research, education, and outreach activities.

The Grand Départ is scheduled for 1 July, but the preparations for this year's Tour de France and the Tour de France Femmes started more than 400 million years ago, when the rocks of the Central Massif and the Vosges Mountains were formed.

More than 200 visitors came to Bedretto and toured the BedrettoLab.

Eighty outstanding researchers and innovators from around the world have been elected as the newest Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science and one of the oldest science academies worldwide.

SNSF project: ROOTS - Reconstructing soil fertility across time and space

Congratulations to our successful graduates!

The Department of Earth Sciences has successfully nominated NASA'S Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen, for an honorary doctorate. He received the award on the occasion of this year's ETH Day on 19 November 2022.

ETH Zurich remains the best place in the world to study earth & climate sciences, according to this year's ranking.