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Rock garden and lab expanded at App State after Helene cleanup
Jul 2, 2025
BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State University’s Fred Webb Jr. Outdoor Lab and Rock Garden — a resource for geology students, researc...
Water Tracks: The Veins of Thawing Landscapes [faculty co-authored]
Jun 27, 2025
In the Arctic, one of the primary paths for water to flow is along water tracks, stream-like features that fill with and route water when the soil abo...
App State researchers uncover hidden history at Fort Defiance
Jun 23, 2025
BOONE, N.C. — In a newly discovered graveyard at Fort Defiance in Caldwell County, an interdisciplinary effort led by Appalachian State Un...
Jared Voris '16 identifies second new dinosaur species
Jun 18, 2025
BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State University alumnus Jared Voris '16 is the lead author of a new Nature study identifying a new sp...
Geology major Tucker Terrell receives award at Annual Celebration of Student Research and Creative Endeavors
May 8, 2025
Tucker Terrell, of Burlington, a senior geology-environmental geology major, used ground-penetrating radar to establish the location of burials of ens...
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