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602 South College Avenue
Greencastle, IN 46135
P: 765.658.4654
F: 765.658.4732
E: jmills@depauw.edu

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New Google Earth book by Dr. Scott Wilkerson (Geosciences), Beth Wilkerson (DePauw GIS Center), and Dr. Stephen Marshak (University of Illinois)

Department of Geosciences

Not Your Ordinary Classrooms... Not Your Ordinary Majors...

Highlights

Interested In The Environment?

As part of their coursework and/or student-faculty research, students develop skills to acquire and analyze data to ADDRESS APPLIED ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS.

Want To Do Research?

Geoscience majors have the opportunity to work on COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH with departmental faculty and PRESENT THE RESULTS AT NATIONAL MEETINGS.

Like Being Outdoors?

Students EXPERIENCE GEOLOGY through departmental field trips to places like the Western US, the Appalachian Mountains, Hawaii, China, & New Zealand.

Want To Be On The Cutting Edge of Technology?

Geoscience students acquire data in the field using INDUSTRY-STANDARD INSTRUMENTATION and then visualize data using various software packages in the DEPARTMENT OF GEOSCIENCES COMPUTER LAB.

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Geoscientists study the Earth, including the materials that compose it, the processes that continuously change it, and its evolution over time. Geoscientists address increasingly challenging problems that confront a growing human population: climate change, dwindling natural resources, earthquake prediction and natural hazard identification, human environmental impact, and safe disposal of toxic and radioactive waste materials. Because these studies involve investigations of relationships between Earth’s systems, the geosciences are inherently interdisciplinary and include aspects of chemistry, biology and physics.  

MAJORS AND MINORS OFFERED:

Geology, Environmental Geoscience, Earth Science, and Geography (minor only).  
Please note that an Environmental Geoscience minor provides an environmental concentration in concert with other majors.

 WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH A GEOSCIENCE MAJOR?

Geoscience Career or Graduate School...Your Choice
Department of Geosciences’ graduates have been very successful both in pursuing careers in environmental consulting, mining & energy industries, education, and government direct from DePauw, and in being admitted to prestigious graduate programs nationwide (with stipends of $10,000-$18,000 per year with full tuition waivers).  A partial list of recent post-graduation activities include: 

Petroleum/Mining Environmental Consulting Government Graduate Schools

• ExxonMobil Expl
• Gunn Oil Co.
• Marsten & Marsten
• Murvin Oil
• Samson Oil
• Yates Petroleum Corp.

• ENSR International
• ENVIRON International
• HDR International
• Patriot Eng & Environmental

 • National Park Service
• US Geological Survey
• MT Dept of Land Resources
 • Colorado State Univ
• Univ of California
• Univ of Wyoming
• Univ of Tennessee
• Univ of Kentucky
• Univ of Hawaii
• Univ of Illinois
• Indiana Univ
• Duke Univ