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.
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Please see our guidebook of information for prospective and current students, and stay tuned for updates as we transition our majors into Earth Science and Climate Science
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