The Department of Environmental, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences offers programs of study which provide a firm base in science and mathematics and a broad understanding of the natural environment. The programs are multidisciplinary in approach, and the composition of the faculty, geologists, geophysicists, chemists and meteorolgists, reflects this multidisciplinary character. All the concentrations were founded more than 20 years ago and graduates of the program have achieved considerable success in the environmental and meteorological fields.
Internships are available with many private and governmental organizations.
These provide the student with practical experience and potential entry into the job market. Undergraduate research is also encouraged and students in the department are active participants in the University's Honors Program. Geographic Information Systems, word processing, spread sheets and databases are available. Also housed in the department is a weather center with satellite links and remote observation platforms, an air pollution laboratory, a chemistry laboratory for environmental analysis, an instrumental neutron activation analysis laboratory used to measure trace constitutents in natural samples, and a fission-track geochronology laboratory. In addition, faculty in the department are affiliated with the Center for Atmospheric Research, the Center for Environmental Engineering and Science, and the Radiation Laboratory, and maintain active collaborations with other universities and research facilities.