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.