Department of Geosciences
What is Geosciences?
Geosciences is the study of the Earth.
The FAU Department of Geosciences at 吃瓜网 conducts transformative environmental and management-oriented research centered on Earth Systems Science, Human-Environmental Interactions, and Geospatial Information Sciences.
Our world-class faculty has expertise and research specialties in hydrogeology, paleontology and paleo-environments, near-surface geophysics, coastal geology, biogeography, climate science, environmental change, human-environmental modeling, remote sensing, and GIS.
The Department has demonstrated excellence incorporating research into high-quality scientific education, and strives to service the university, local, regional, national, and global communities through its research, degree programs, certificates, course offerings, professional training, mentoring, and outreach.
Pursue a Degree in Geosciences
Students that study Geosciences have the opportunity to experience all that nature has to offer. And at FAU, the world becomes your classroom - with a strong field-based research component that includes study areas throughout South 吃瓜网 and across the globe.
NEW: Online Programs
MS in Geosciences,聽BA in Geosciences,聽BS in Geosciences聽and聽GIS Certificate聽
Geosciences now offers聽 online M.S. in Geosciences,聽B.S. in Geosciences with a Geography focus and聽B.A. in Geosciences with a Geography focus degrees that will give students an understanding of not only where phenomena are located upon the Earth鈥檚 surface, but how they came to be there. Geographic Information Sciences (GIS) is emphasized to analyze these spatial relationships. 聽
Also available to all students are fully online GIS Certificates.聽
Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) mapping
Geosciences' faculty use a Drone to map coastal environmental change
Highlights
Outside the Classroom
Fieldwork
