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GEOSCIENCES

Geology

Auburn University
The master's program offers a broad-based curriculum that takes advantage of Auburn's location on the boundary between the Appalachian front and the Gulf Coastal Plain. The low student-faculty ratio results in small class size, close relationships between students and faculty members, and a relaxed and informal atmosphere. Research opportunities include hydrology and aqueous and hydrothermal geochemistry; economic geology, petrochemistry, and tectonics of the southern Appalachians; environmental geophysics; coastal-plain stratigraphy/sedimentology; and taphonomy and paleoecology of invertebrate assemblages. Current investigations extend beyond the region to other areas in the US as well as the Bahamas, Scandinavia, and Himalayan foreland basins. For additional information, visit the Web site: http://www.auburn.edu/cosam/departments/geology_geography.

Sul Ross State University
Program stresses integrated field and laboratory research. The University is situated in an area of diverse and well-exposed geology. Research equipment includes GIS/GPS lab, XRD, and a rock prep lab. Current faculty research in environmental geology, volcanology, trace-element geochemistry, paleontology, carbonate depositional environments, arid-region hydrogeology, and remote sensing. URL: http://www.sulross.edu.

University of California, Riverside
The geological sciences program offers research opportunities with a strong field-based curriculum in astrobiology, paleobiology, paleoecology and global climate change, Neoproterozoic geobiology, sedimentary geochemistry, stable-isotope geochemistry, biogeochemistry, quantitative stratigraphy, experimental tectonophysics, heat flow, earthquake processes, active tectonics, InSAR, earthquake physics and modeling, and mineral deposits and hydrothermal geochemistry. Deadline for funding: January 5.

Geosciences

Stony Brook University, State University of New York
We depend upon the Earth’s resources, and we are subject to its natural and man-made hazards. Using diverse experimental and observational tools, the Department of Geosciences is very active in improving our understanding of the processes that shape this and the other solid planets—from surface to core.