Earth and Environmental Science Department Facilities
Faculty and student research is supported by cutting-edge analytical instruments, including the following, among others.
- Water quality loggers
- Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)
- Ground-penetrating radar and electrical resistivity tomography
- Ground-based LIDAR surveying equipment
- Mass spectrometry (including ICP-OES)
- Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
- X-ray diffraction and X-ray fluorescence
Students also have access to networked computers, printers and workstations.
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Faculty Research Specialties
Faculty research includes the following fields.
- Coastal dynamics and geomorphology
- Ecohydrology and land-use change
- Energy
- Environmental geochemistry
- Environmental geophysics and remote sensing
- hazards
- Hydrogeology and groundwater contamination
- Low-temperature geochemistry
- Materials and mineralogy
- Nanomaterials
- Paleontology and fossil provenance
- Planetary geology
- Polar geophysics and glaciology
- Precambrian geology
- Sedimentology and stratigraphy
- Soils
- Structural geology
- Urban hydrology
Carnegie Classification
The lists 澳门六合彩官网 as an R1 institution for 鈥渉ighest research activity,鈥� placing it among the top 4%聽of all four-year institutions in the United States.