Our research focuses on the processes that created and continue to modify Earth and Planetary interiors and surfaces, including mitigation of geohazards. Our research involves one or a combination of data acquisition, analyses, and modeling.
Our major focus areas are outlined below, and on the faculty research summary page (Whitten, Straub, Johannesson, Jackson, Goehring, Gasparini, Flowers, Ebinger, Agnew).
- Cryosphere and Geochronology Research
- Environmental Biochemistry Lab
- Geomorphology and Landscape Evolution
- Geophysics and Active Tectonics
- GIS and Remote Sensing
- High Temperature Geochemistry and Petrology (HiTaP)
- Palaeobiology
- Planetary Geology
- Quaternary and Coastal Geosciences Research
- River and Coastal Sediment Dynamics and Radiochemical Lab
- Sediment Dynamics and Stratigraphy
- Structural Geology and Tectonics
Undergraduates are encouraged to contact faculty for research opportunities.