Our moon has been slowly drifting away from Earth over the past 2.5 billion years
Looking up at the moon in the night sky, you would never imagine that it is slowly moving away from Earth. But we know otherwise.
Margriet Lantink
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison
I am a geologist specializing in cyclostratigraphy, the study of astronomically induced climate changes recorded in sedimentary rocks. My research focuses on Precambrian cyclostratigraphy – i.e., cycles in rocks older than ~540 million years – offering potential insights into the early Earth's climate and solar system's dynamical evolution. Currently a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Geoscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.