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.
As of 9/1/22, we renamed ourselves from the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences (EOS) to the Department of Earth and Climate Sciences (ECS). For years, we have incorporated climate science and paleoclimate topics into our courses, and we are now in the process of expanding our faculty lines and modifying our curriculum to include both earth and climate science fields. As we complete this transition, any reference to EOS is synonymous with ECS.
We have a new guidebook to provide information to prospective and current students
Visit our Department Highlights for recent field trip photos and stay tuned for future news!
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.
Noel Heim, lecturer in the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, is consulting with Mass. State Rep. Jack Lewis on a bill to designate a state dinosaur
