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)

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

Polar Geophysics and Glaciology (Muto)

Surface Processes and Landscape Evolution (Litwin)

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

EARTH HISTORY

Paleontology-Fossil Provenance (Buynevich, 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, Kim, Toran)

Low Temperature Geochemistry (Chemtob)

Mineralogy-Materials (Chemtob, Kim)

Nanomaterials (Kim)

Toxicology (Kim)

WATER

Ecohydrology (Ravi)

Hydrogeology and Groundwater Contamination (Ravi, Litwin, Toran)

Landscape Hydrology (Litwin)

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)