News
A selection of news articles from the SEE group, the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and ETH Zurich.
How ocean sediments shape Earth’s oxygen and climate balance
A new study identifies the key environmental factors that control how the mineral pyrite forms and is buried in ocean sediments, revealing its outsized role in regulating Earth’s oxygen and climate.
Minute witnesses from the primordial sea
Researchers at ETH Zurich have been able to measure - for the first time - how the amount of dissolved organic carbon in the sea has changed over geological time. The results reveal that our explanations of how the ice ages and complex life forms came about are incomplete.
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14 new professors appointed
At its meeting of 9 and 10 December 2020 and upon application of Joël Mesot, President of ETH Zurich, the ETH Board appointed 14 professors. They will work in a total of ten departments in a wide range of research areas. In addition, an ecotoxicologist was awarded the title of professor.
Twelve ERC Starting Grants for ETH Zurich
ETH has once again been highly successful in the awarding of this year’s ERC Starting Grants for young researchers, with the European Research Council (ERC) approving a total of CHF 21.4 million in funding for 12 ETH project submissions.