Graduate Research Opportunities
The Department of Earth Sciences offers a variety of research opportunities for graduate students in:
- Global Climate and Environmental Change
- Earthquake Physics
- Paleontology, Paleobiology, Paleoecology
- Tectonic Geomorphology
- Sedimentary Geochemistry and Organic Geochemistry
- Neotectonics and Structural Geology
- Petrology, Geochemistry, Geothermics
- Stratigraphy
- Biogeography, Landscape Ecology andConservation Biology
Graduate education in the Geological Sciences emphasizes general geology combined with a number of specialties. The department prides itself on being collaborative and offers an interdisciplinary approach to a range of research specialties.