Our curriculum emphasizes the sociocultural facets, or social geology, inherent specifically in hazards-related work and broadly in the fields of geological sciences and engineering. Unique opportunities for global study are available in Italy and France through INVOGE, our international dual-degree program.
Our graduate program is flexible, accommodating students’ individual goals and affording specialization for myriad careers in the earth sciences, geophysics, and geological engineering.
The majority of our graduate students are involved in international field-oriented research, but some focus on laboratory or computer studies. The department’s research activities cross disciplinary and national borders, spanning the following areas:
- Development of complex computational models of earth systems
- Laboratory experiments analyzing earth material phenomena
- Analysis of remote-sensing data of the Earth’s surface and atmosphere
- Properties of the Earth’s deep interior and its ancient past
- Field measurements of volcanologic, hydrologic, and atmospheric systems
- Seismic imaging of underground oil and gas reservoirs and their properties
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