Research Facilities
The primary research facilities on Main Campus are housed in
- ٳ for the Biology Department;
- Beury Hall for the Chemistry and Earth and Environmental Science departments; and
- ٳ, CST’s most advanced facility completed in 2014, for portions of the Biology and Chemistry departments, as well as the Computer and Information Sciences and Physics departments.
The instrumentation housed in ٳBiology-Life Sciences Building, Beury Hall and SERC is available for use by graduate or postdoctoral researchers and is subject to proper training and supervision by faculty.
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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 ϲʹ as an R1 institution for “highest research activity,” placing it among the top 4% of all four-year institutions in the United States.