Earth Science

The Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) strives for excellence in research, education, and outreach related to Earth System Science and Global Change in high-latitude, alpine, and other environments. INSTAAR is located at the University of Colorado within the Graduate School and affiliated with departments of Anthropology, CEA Engineering, Environmental Studies, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Geography, Geological Sciences, and Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ATOC). INSTAAR also participates in interdepartmental graduate education programs such as Hydrologic Sciences.

Our group seeks simple theories of complex natural systems, tied as closely as possible to experimental and observational data. Problems of interest range from geobiological evolution to the dynamics of fluids, rocks, and sand.

The Environmental And Remote TecHnologies Laboratory provides support to Brown University's research and academic activities as they relate to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS).

The institute's mandate is to advance the study of the North American and circumpolar Arctic through the natural and social sciences, the arts and humanities and to acquire, preserve and disseminate information on physical, environmental and social conditions in the North.

he Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO) was created as a partnership among the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Yellowstone National Park, and University of Utah to strengthen the long-term monitoring of volcanic and earthquake unrest in the Yellowstone National Park region. Yellowstone is the site of the largest and most diverse collection of natural thermal features in the world and the first National Park. YVO is one of the five USGS Volcano Observatories that monitor volcanoes within the United States for science and public safety.

The Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI) is one of the leading earth and environmental sciences research institutes in the United States. It is located in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State, on the University Park Campus. Dr. Susan L. Brantley, Professor of Geosciences, is the Institute Director. EESI is one of the Penn State Institutes of the Environment (PSIE), the central structure for environmental research, education, and outreach at Penn State.

PEIs interdisciplinary research program is currently focused chiefly in the sciences, with particular strengths in global change, biogeochemical cycles, molecular geochemistry, biodiversity and conservation, and environmental science and policy. It is organized principally through its four centers: the Carbon Mitigation Initiative, the Princeton Climate Center, a unit of the Cooperative Institute for Climate Science, the Center for Environmental BioInorganic Chemistry, and the Center for Biocomplexity.

Earthquake early warning can provide a few seconds to tens of seconds warning prior to ground shaking during an earthquake. ElarmS, short for Earthquake Alarms Systems, is a methodology designed to provide warnings in California and other earthquake prone regions around the world. The warning messages provided by ElarmS can be used to reduce the damage, costs and casualties in an earthquake.

The USGS serves the Nation by providing reliable scientific information to describe and understand the Earth; minimize loss of life and property from natural disasters; manage water, biological, energy, and mineral resources; and enhance and protect our quality of life.

SCCOOS brings together coastal observations along the Southern California Bight to provide information necessary to address issues in coastal water quality, marine life resources, and coastal hazards.
Working interactively with local, state and federal agencies, resource managers, policy makers, educators, scientists and the general public, SCCOOS will improve our understanding and delivery of coastal observations, and will allow us to better manage our coastal ocean environment. Access realtime and archived SCCOOS data collected within the Southern California Bight (SCB). Find related data products, information on metadata, database schema and data flow charts. SCCOOS modeling efforts include ROMS-based Integrated Modeling of the Southern California Coastal Ocean, Coastal Ocean Data Assimilation System (CODAS), ocean swell propagation modeling, sediment transport modeling, and wind-wave generation modeling. OurOcean Portal provides access to many of these products.

On February 16, 2005, 61 countries agreed to a plan that, over the next 10 years, will revolutionize the understanding of Earth and how it works. Agreement for a 10-year implementation plan for a Global Earth Observation System of Systems, known as GEOSS, was reached by member countries of the Group on Earth Observations at the Third Observation Summit held in Brussels. Nearly 40 international organizations also support the emerging global network. The GEOSS project will help all nations involved produce and manage their information in a way that benefits the environment as well as humanity by taking a pulse of the planet. GEOSS is envisioned as a large national and international cooperative effort to bring together existing and new hardware and software, making it all compatible in order to supply data and information at no cost. The U.S. and developed nations have a unique role in developing and maintaining the system, collecting data, enhancing data distribution, and providing models to help all of the world's nations. EPA has a strong commitment to the GEOSS initiative.

This year the University of California, San Diego established the Center for Earth Observations and Applications (CEOA). Led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, CEOA will provide an integrating vision for our work across the spectrum of natural, physical, and social sciences, engineering, and information technology related to Earth observations and applications. CEOA will stimulate support and coordinate sustained research and applications in Earth observations at UCSD.

The U.S. National Ocean Bottom Seismograph Instrument Pool provides instrumentation to support research to further our understanding of marine geology, seismology, and geodynamics. Funded through the NSF, the Pool makes ocean bottom seismic equipment available to all interested researchers, to private and public organizations, and to industry.

The goal of GEON is to advance the field of geoinformatics to prepare and train current and future generations of geoscience researchers, educators, and practitioners in the use of cyberinfrastructure to further their research, education, and professional goals. Geoinformatics will foster new interdisciplinary research, for example, the gravity modeling of 3D geological features, such as plutons; study of active tectonics by integrating LiDAR data and geodynamics models; and, study of lithospheric structure and properties across diverse tectonic environments.

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The School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences prepares students for professional careers in environmental science and meteorology, and research careers in climate dynamics, atmospheric chemistry and air quality, oceanography, aqueous geochemistry and biogeochemistry, paleoclimatology, geophysics and geohydrology.

The Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) has broad intellectual horizons that encompass the solid Earth, its fluid envelopes, and its diverse neighbors throughout the solar system and beyond. The Department seeks to understand the fundamental processes defining the origin, evolution and current state of these systems and to use this understanding to predict future states. EAPS is notable for emphasis on interdisciplinary problems. The Earth System Initiative (ESI) was formed in 2002 to encourage and coordinate multidisciplinary research efforts in the earth sciences and engineering at MIT. The Earth Resources Laboratory is broadening its base to include a wider range of geophysical, geological, and environmental topics. The Center for Global Change Science (including the Climate Modeling Initiative) and the Program in Atmospheric, Oceans and Climate continue to foster cross-fertilization among all areas of the earth sciences that control the climate system. Research activities are gradually broadening so that geologists are now working with oceanographers and atmospheric scientists, and models of the climate system have been constructed both for the modern system and for times deep in the geological past. Department faculty also continue to play leading roles in the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. EAPS has vigorous graduate educational programs in geology and geochemistry, geophysics, atmospheres, oceans, climate, and planetary science. The EAPS graduate program includes students in the MIT/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Joint Program.

Welcome to the Earth Sciences Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz! The past five years has seen the expansion of our program into planetary and atmospheric sciences. The most recent faculty addition is Assistant Professor Patrick Chuang who joined the faculty in July of 2001. Prof. Chuang is an atmospheric chemist with particular interests in observational constraints on aerosols and atmospheric pollutants. I hope you will find our website useful in learning about our research and degree-granting programs: please contact our faculty directly for more information about specific research areas.

Welcome to the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. The department offers undergraduate and graduate degrees and has facilities located on the Morningside Heights campus in Manhattan and at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York.

Founded by Lester Brown in 1974, the Worldwatch Institute offers a unique blend of interdisciplinary research, global focus, and accessible writing that has made it a leading source of information on the interactions among key environmental, social, and economic trends. Our work revolves around the transition to an environmentally sustainable and socially just societyand how to achieve it.