SLU offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in geoscience and has long boasted a strength in seismology and geophysics. The program recently expanded its research expertise to include the interdisciplinary area of environmental science and remote sensing.
Concentrations are available in geology, geophysics and environmental geoscience in the master?s program and geophysics and environmental geoscience in the Ph.D. program.?
Active research areas include tectonics, Precambrian crustal evolution, remote sensing, sedimentary geology and sedimentation, igneous and metamorphic petrology, geochemistry, geochronology, structural geology and fluid-rock interaction.
The M.S. program prepares students for careers in private industry and government agencies or for further advanced studies. The non-thesis option requires 30 credit hours to complete; the thesis option requires 24 credit hours to complete, plus six credit hours of thesis credit.
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