Our undergraduate and graduate students gain a strong foundation across the geosciences. Areas of specialization may include environmental and isotope geochemistry, applied geophysics and tectonics, paleoclimatology, planetary science, remote sensing and GIS, volcanology, and human-environmental interactions.
Check out the new virtual Pitt Sustainability tour highlighting spots around campus that showcase Pitt's sustainability efforts. From rain gardens to academic spaces, take the tour to see some of the places that help make campus more sustainable.
Claire Mock has been selected to receive the ARCS Foundation – Pittsburgh Chapter Scholar Award! The Pittsburgh Chapter of ARCS Foundation aims to sustain the best emerging scientists, by providing financial support to the most promising graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.
Congratulations to Camille Butkus on being awarded GSA graduate student research grant! this grant will support her work investigating how using liposomes as carriers for agrochemicals will impact carbon and nitrogen cycling in agricultural soils.
Congratulations to Hailey Sinon who was awarded a GSA Graduate Student Research Grant to carry out her current research on paleo-permafrost thaw in Arctic Alaska to the next step. With this grant, she will apply various radiocarbon dating techniques to a lake in interior Alaska to study patterns of organic carbon erosion that occurred as the region underwent significant permafrost degradation thousands of years ago, with the hope that it can be used as a potential analog for the future of Arctic permafrost.
