Environmental and Engineering Geology and Geophysics

Environmental & Engineering Geology and Geophysics

The Environmental Geosciences program at TAMU offers students opportunities to apply advanced geologic techniques to study a variety of environmental and water resources problems including the transport, availability and quality of groundwater, the fate and transport of pollutants in soils and groundwaters, biogeochemical cycling, environmental sustainability and land-use planning.

Hydrogeology, low-temperature geochemistry, near-surface geophysics, and geomorphology form the foundation in the application of geologic principles to the solution of environmental problems. Much research and teaching in this program concentrates on geological and geophysical aspects of engineered works, water resources, natural hazards, and disturbed land reclamation.

Research in these topics can incorporate field work, laboratory studies and theoretical modeling/computer simulation. In addition, interdisciplinary projects are encouraged; graduate students commonly engage in multidisciplinary research linking environmental geology, sedimentology, structural geology, civil and electrical engineering, and other Earth science and engineering disciplines. Opportunities also exist to perform research at several outside agencies including the U.S. DOE Savannah River Ecology Laboratory and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station.

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