The Earth and Climate Sciences are key to addressing scientific issues relating to energy, mineral, and water resource security, ecosystem and environmental stewardship, hazards risk assessment, adaptation and mitigation, and climate variability and change.
In the Department of Earth and Climate Sciences (EACS, formerly Geology), students acquire in-depth knowledge of earth materials, Earth’s climate system, geologic time, surface processes, field relationships, tectonics, geochemical cycles and cycling, and the earth system. The department stresses the importance of communication, collaboration, and hands-on experiential learning in the field, the laboratory, and the classroom. Students work with their peers and faculty and community partners to answer fundamental questions and to solve real-world problems.