The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences explores the processes that shape our evolving planet. Our faculty are committed to education and outreach with an active, cutting-edge research program that addresses a broad array of topics in the Earth and Environmental Sciences spanning climate and environmental change, tectonics and dynamics of Earth鈥檚 interior, and the science of water throughout the Earth.
Earth and Environmental Sciences by the Numbers
30
Graduate students (12 Ph.D., 18 master's)
2020
Year Ph.D. program was launched
15
Full-time faculty members
50/71
Undergraduate majors/minors
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Learning by Doing
Students studying stream processes and history in Pennsylvania.
Students collecting water samples at the Charles River.
Sam Dow collecting a sample of glacial till in western Massachusetts.
Two graduate students canoeing on Ossipee Lake.
Students looking at Roxbury Conglomerate on Earth Materials field trip.
Sand ripples in a glacial lake deposit in western Massachusetts.
Robin Gross collecting Odonata larvae in bog ditches.
Boston College and Franklin and Marshall students doing fieldwork in PA.
Students measuring a stream bank in Maryland.
Students investigating a glacial deposit in southern New Hampshire.
Students doing field work at Mountain Creek in PA.
Undergraduate students examine dunes, inlets, and overwash fans at Nauset Beach on Cape Cod.