Earth and Environment
Three majors: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Geosciences
Thinking of studying the Earth?
What distinguishes our program from others?
- Excellent faculty, dedicated to undergraduate education
- Three interdisciplinary majors, administered within one department
- Student opportunities outside the classroom
- State-of-the-art scientific instrumentation
- A friendly environment, with available professors who know you personally
- Exotic travel, with extracurricular field trips during breaks at nominal cost
- Located in geologically and environmentally interesting Lancaster County
- Success. Our students are accepted into graduate schools and find employment
- Alumni support through membership in the Founders Society
Starting a green job search? See our handy guide on Launching an Environmental Career. Look for current job listings we get on the ENE facebook page.
Keck Geology Consortium projects to be run by Andy de Wet and Rob Sternberg in the summer of 2014.
See the Environmental Protection Agency and American Geological Institute web sites for career information, watch the AGI YouTube video, and read AGI's report about geosciences and critical needs of the 21st century. Read an article from Science, or listen to the podcast, about the excellent job market for geoscientists. Hear about the geosciences employment boom for graduates in this National Public Radio story. Or think about interdisciplinary careers at the interface between science and public policy.
We enjoy meeting with interested students. Tour our Department, sit in on a class, meet faculty and students! Contact Us.
Students and Faculty attend the National Conference on Science Policy Policy and the Environment in Washington, D.C.
Students gather at Badwater, the lowest elevation (-282 ft.) in the western hemisphere during the Department field trip to Death Valley.
