The Department of Geological Sciences conducts high-impact, cutting edge research in a wide-range of subfields, including:
- Sedimentology
- Paleoseismology
- Paleoclimatology
- Geochemistry
- Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
- Computational Geophysics
- Marine Geophysics/Geology
- Planetary Geophysics
- Earthquake Physics
- Ingeous and Metamorphic Petrology
- Hydrogeology
- Structural Geology
- Geoscience Education
