In the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, there are four broad areas of research, addressed through individual and group faculty endeavors.

CLIMATE AND LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION

Climate Modeling (Beadling)

Coastal Dynamics, Geomorphology (Buynevich) 

Energy (N. Davatzes, Ravi)

Sustainability and Land-Use Change (Kim, Ravi, Toran)

Natural Hazards (Buynevich, N. Davatzes, Nyquist, Ravi)

Polar Geophysics and Glaciology (Muto)

EARTH HISTORY

Paleontology-Fossil Provenance (Buynevich, Grandstaff, Terry, Tumarkin-Deratzian)

Planetary Geology (Chemtob, A. Davatzes)

Precambrian Geology (Chemtob, A. Davatzes)

Sedimentology-Stratigraphy (A. Davatzes, Buynevich, Terry, Thornburg)

Soils and Paleosols (Terry)

GEOCHEMISTRY

Environmental Geochemistry (Chemtob, Grandstaff, Kim, Toran)

Low Temperature Geochemistry (Chemtob, Grandstaff)

Mineralogy-Materials (Chemtob, Kim)

Nanomaterials (Kim)

Toxicology (Kim)

WATER

Ecohydrology (Ravi)

Hydrogeology and Groundwater Contamination (Ravi, Toran)

Urban hydrology (Nyquist, Toran)

EES is also active in the following research topics:

Environmental Geophysics and Remote Sensing (Muto, Nyquist)

Geoscience Education (A. Davatzes, Flynn)

Structural Geology and Geomechanics (N. Davatzes)