Research Areas

• Research funding averages nearly $3 million per year.
• With $2.3 million from the National Science Foundation, students in the Master’s International program in Natural Hazards apply remote sensing to hazard mitigation and resource development in Central America and are building a new educational system of applied research and engineering.
• Students and faculty use seismic methods to better image underground reservoirs, often working in close cooperation with industry.
• Researchers in our Subsurface Visualization Lab help companies extract oil from abandoned or nearly abandoned fields, enhancing US energy independence.
The Geological Engineering and Sciences programs have a wide variety of research strengths. These include:


• Atmospheric Remote Sensing
• Environmental/Aqueous Geochemistry
• Geochemistry and Ore Deposits
• Geologic Hazards Mitigation
• Mineralogy and Petrology
• Paleomagnetism/Environmental Magnetism
• Physical, Environmental, & Social Hydrology
• Subsurface Remediation and Contaminant Transport
• Reflection Seismic Iimaging & Petrophysics
• Stratigraphy and Basin Analysis
• Subsurface Visualization
• Volcanology
• Water Resources Management
• Watershed Modeling & Analysis

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