Earth and Planetary Sciences - Harvard University

Earth and Planetary Sciences from Harvard University is a Campus Master Geology degree that prepares you for a Science career. Understanding our planet will be a fundamental challenge for the scientific community over the next century. Almost every practical aspect of society, population, environment, economics, and politics is and will be increasingly impacted by our relationship with the Earth . Facing these challenges requires approaches that transcend the boundaries of a traditional " geology " department: The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS) uses an integrative scientific approach that encompasses and includes many aspects of physics, chemistry, astronomy, and biology. In addition to the collaborative exchange with other Harvard departments such as astronomy, chemistry and chemical biology, organismic and evolutionary biology, and the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, EPS has reciprocal arrangements with Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for graduate students to take and receive credit for courses. The laboratories, libraries, and lecture rooms of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences are housed in the University Museum and in the David and Arnold Hoffman Laboratory of Experimental Geology . The Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences is housed in Pierce Hall, across Oxford Street from the Hoffman Laboratory. The seismograph station is at the George R. Agassiz Station of the Astronomical Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts, about 25 miles west of Cambridge. Laboratory facilities are available for radiogenic and stable isotope geochemistry, trace element geochemistry, geophysics, X-ray diffraction analysis, mineral analysis with an automated electron microprobe, spectroscopy, scanning and transmission electron microscopy, and sedimentology. The specimen collections in mineralogy, petrology, paleontology, and mining geology are among the best in the world. View more details on Harvard University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Geology courses.