Graduate study in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences offers students opportunities for field, laboratory, and computational geological and geophysical research spanning the Earth’s deep interior, lithosphere and surface on a host of timescales. Several of our faculty lead collaborative domestic and international research programs that afford our graduate students opportunities to work in diverse parts of the world with teams of internationally recognized scholars. State-of-the-art analytical and computational facilities provide opportunities for cutting-edge research in the fields of Earth Sciences. Diverse, interdisciplinary research opportunities leading to M.S. and Ph.D. degrees include:
- Tectonics
- Geomorphology
- Hydrogeology & Hydrology
- Sedimentology
- Thermochronology
- Environmental Geology