About Geosciences
Our department focuses on research and education in the nature, genesis, and history of the Earth and its crust, and the evolution of the environment and biota at the Earth's surface.
Our faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students are active in biogeochemistry; climate dynamics; geoarchaeology; geochemistry; geochronology; geomorphology; geophysics; mineral resources; mineralogy; paleolimnology; palynology; paleontology; petrology; sedimentology and stratigraphy; structure; tectonics and volcanology.
Who We Are
The Department of Geosciences is a member of The School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, a federation of units that produces knowledge about earth and environmental processes and human-environment interactions at all geographic and temporal scales. We encourage interdisciplinary approaches to research in the geosciences, both within the department and through interdepartmental programs.
We...
- Explore, discover, and train students in integrative and interdisciplinary Geoscience: tectonics, geophysics, climate & surface dynamics, earth materials & geochemistry. Our graduates pursue careers in research and education, energy and mineral resources, environmental policy, and many other areas.
- Maintain active research projects and student training opportunities with our partners at ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Chevron, Freeport-McMoRan, Newmont, BHP among others.
- Work together in research, teaching, and outreach with UA and international collaborators.
Highlights
Our faculty members include severy GSA, AGU, AAAS, Guggenheim and Packard Foundation Fellows. Additionally, as a top 10 graduate program, our graduate students include several NSF, EPA, NASA, NSAS, ARCS fellows and Philanthropic Educational Organization (PEO) Scholars. Together, our faculty and students have received several million dollars of funding.
We also have some of the best laboratories in the world. Our geochronologic facilities focus on Re-Os, Rb-Sr and Sm-Nd (by ID-TIMS), U-Th-Pb (by LA-ICPMS), Ar-Ar, (U-Th)/He, fission track, cosmogenic isotopes, and dendrochronology and we have considerable strengths in stable isotope and organic geochemistry. We have a state-of-the-art organic geochemistry lab dedicated to paleoclimate studies and active laboratories in climate modeling and physical oceanography.
