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EAS students are engaged in field research on seven continents and across the world oceans. Photo credit: Mary Hambrick

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Research by EAS Graduate Students Recognized in the Mining Sessions at 2020 SEG Annual Meeting

Students received Best Student Presentation and Best Poster Awards.
The Power of Limestone Caves to Store Information about its Environment

Anjohibe Cave site of monitoring study in Madagascar.
Subsurface Geophysics is Key to Geological Carbon Dioxide Storage

Using unique 3D imaging technology to find a negative carbon solution.
Takashita-Bynum, Ph.D. Student, Awarded Grants for Paleoenvironmental Research

Adjunct Faculty Leads Team to Develop Successful Hybrid Geology Field Camp During Initial COVID-19 Outbreak

UH Students Excel at Best Student Poster Presentations at the 2020 AAPG Annual Convention & Exhibition

Seminar Video: The Modes of Transmission of SARS-COV-2: What We Know Now & How To Protect Ourselves (Dr. Jose Jimenez)

In The Spotlight

Hauptvogel and Sisson Release Open Access Lab Manual on Historical Geology

Lab manual titled - The Story of Earth: An Observational Guide.
34th Annual EAS Student Research Conference Held as Virtual Meeting April 30

Event student-led since its founding in 1988.
EAS Student Honored with Provost’s Teaching Excellence Award

Shelby Johnston received highest teaching award to a graduate student.
Two NSM Undergraduates Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Both students graduated from Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.

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198Undergraduate Students
195Graduate Students
4Undergraduate Degree Options
8M.S./Ph.D. Degree Options