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LAAS student Renzo Negrini has been named a recipient of the Hueg-Harrison Fellowship, a scholarship honoring the student-mentor relationship.

Students from two tribal colleges joined University of Minnesota students for SOIL 4511: Field Study of Soils, traveling the state and learning about Minnesota's diverse soils.

Congratulations to LAAS PhD student Lilly Hinkley on receiving honorable mention for her National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship proposal!

Jake Kundert presented his defense seminar on March 23, 2026.

A peek inside the work of Dr. Peter Neff and the Minnesota NICE (Neff Ice and Climate Exploration) Lab.

At the end of December, we’re saying goodbye to a project that has long been part of the work of many researchers in the Department of Soil, Water, and Climate: the SPRUCE experiment. Read on for more on this decade-long collaborative endeavor at the Marcell Experimental Forest.

SWAC Professor Fabian Fernandez reports from his visit to Kazakhstan during his sabbatical travels.

Established by SWAC faculty member Dr. Don Baker in 1960, the St. Paul Campus Climate Observatory has been an ongoing source of climate data for 65 years.

New research by SWAC professor Tim Griffis and colleagues shows that a palm swamp peatland in the Peruvian Amazon can shift from being a carbon sink to being carbon neutral after prolonged periods of higher light intensities and a lower water table. 

Congratulations to the SWAC Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee and Associate Extension Professor Anna Cates on their CFANS collegiate awards!