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Geology's Selby Hearth Elected to Intl. Commission on History of Geo Sciences

October 31, 2023

Associate Professor of Geology Selby Hearth has been elected to the International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences.

Hearth studies human histories of geology, particularly the ways that geology has interacted with colonialism. She also studies the mineralogy of Mars, using satellite data, and does field research on acid mine drainage sites, which often produce minerals in similar environments to past environments on Mars.

Hearth is the curator of the  Bryn Mawr Mineral Collection,

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