About the Department

Welcome to the Web Site from the Chair Our Advisory Board Professional geologists that help guide the department's mission. Graduate Students Graduate student listing, web pages. Our Academic Research Programs: Descriptions of each program, research facilities, and department faculty:

Economic Resources / Stratigraphic Sciences / Paleontology:
Petroleum Geology, Reservoir Geology and Geophysics, Economic Geology and Mineral Deposits, Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, Basin Analysis, Diagenesis, and Vertebrate and Invertebrate Paleontology.

 

Geodynamics / Geophysics / Geochemistry / Mineral Physics / Petrology:
Seismology, Contemporary Deformation and Tectonics, Regional and Global Tectonics, Mineral Physics, Paleomagnetism, Mineralogy and Crystallography, Igneous & Metamorphic Petrology and Isotope Geochemistry.

 

Global Change / Surficial Processes / Quaternary Science:
Glaciology, Soils & Quaternary Stratigraphy, Paleoclimates & Paleoceanography, Quaternary Geochronology, and Remote Sensing.

 

Hydrogeosciences

Hydrogeology, Surface Hydrology, Biogeochemistry, Astrobiology, and Planetary Geology.

Associated Institutes and Centers Overviews of EMARC, INSTAAR, CIRES, CSES, LASP and the Museum. Research Facilities State-of-the-art analytical facilities and resources. LEGS - The Laboratory for Environmental and Geological Studies Astrobiology Materials Research Laboratory Additional Information:

Graduate research in earth sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder is guided by the principle that education should prepare individuals to deal with a broad array of geologic problems, bringing to bear whatever analytical approaches and facilities may be appropriate to those problems, but emphasizing "field relationships" in the broadest sense as the main template for synthesis and interpretation. Study in the Department of Geological Sciences has traditionally involved a strong emphasis on field relationships and field geologic methods. In recent years, a major component of laboratory and theoretical earth and planetary sciences has been added. Research in the earth sciences capitalizes on the proximity of the University to the vast natural laboratory of the western U.S. as well as other regions.

About 30 Ph.D.-level faculty, 130 graduate students, and 120 undergraduate majors are currently in residence. Many of the faculty hold joint appointments between the Department and one of several affiliated research institutes and/or the University Museum. Faculty, research associates, graduate students, and undergraduates in these institutes interact both informally and through joint research programs.

Faculty have been highly successful in attracting federal and other funding for research programs based at CU-Boulder. In recent years, for example, CU-Boulder has been in the top ten universities in institutional funding from the Earth Sciences Program of the National Science Foundation.

Interdepartmental Geophysics Graduate Program

Benson Earth Sciences Building Rules

Geologic Displays in Benson Earth Sciences Building

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