Choose the track in environmental geoscience

Students in the environmental geoscience track focus on understanding earth surface processes, the materials at the surface, including rock, soil, water, and how these materials behave under various conditions. By harnessing this knowledge, environmental geologists assess and address surface and groundwater conditions, evaluate natural hazards, and manage land use and land degradation problems. Their expertise is often crucial to environmental protection, ensuring that human activities do not adversely impact geological and hydrological systems, that may, in turn, degrade biological systems.

With major environmental challenges such as climate change, urbanization, and the need for sustainable resource extraction, the role of environmental geoscientists has never been more critical. Their unique blend of skills allows them to pursue graduate studies or work across disciplines as disparate as biology, engineering, policy and planning, agriculture, and others. They can be found in government regulatory agencies, stream restoration companies, groundwater consulting groups, bridge and tunnel engineering companies, county wetland monitors, to name just a few.