The department offers programs leading to the M.S. in Earth Science and Ph.D. degrees in a variety of areas of specialization, including biogeology, geochemistry, geochronology, geomorphology, geophysics, marine geophysics, paleo-climatology, paleo-oceanography, paleobiology, petrology, Quaternary geology, sedimentology and stratigraphy, seismoacoustics, seismotectonics, structural geology and crustal evolution, and tectonics.