The Department of Earth and Climate Sciences provides our students with an education in both the science of Geology as well as more general skills in scientific reasoning and expression.
ECS 191 Special Topics/UEP 194-09 – Intro to Python, a 1-credit course taught only on the first 4 Fridays of the semester
Our new majors of Earth Science, Climate Science, and the minor of Earth and Climate Sciences, were approved to go into effect by fall 2025 – stay tuned for more information on switching to and declaring these majors!
Please see our guidebook of information for previous students, there will be future updates as we complete the curriculum transition.
In a Tell Me More podcast episode, faculty and alumni plumb the depths to better know our watery planet, from sea-level rise to shipwrecks to giant squid
Tufts Professor Jack Ridge explains what happened when the last ice sheets retreated and what’s going on now with the rapid retreat of glaciers around the world.
Andrew Kemp, assistant professor, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, is among the experts quoted in this piece about the risks to buildings along the New York and New Jersey coastline including erosion and rising sea-levels.
