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
• Cooperation with other departments to encourage travel and field research
• 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

Prof. Stan Mertzman publishes maps on Oregon geology.
Prof. James Strick's book on astrobiology.
Prof. Suzanna Richter's tree research featured on National Public Radio.
In the blogosphere: environment, climate change, evolution, and seismology.

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 21^st 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 gather at Badwater, the lowest elevation (-282 ft.) in the western hemisphere during the Department field trip to Death Valley.	Students and Faculty attend the National Conference on Science Policy Policy and the Environment in Washington, D.C.