Department of Geosciences
What is Geosciences?
Geosciences is the study of the Earth.
The FAU Department of Geosciences at Florida Atlantic University conducts transformative environmental and management-oriented research centered on Earth Systems Science, Human-Environmental Interactions, and Geospatial Information Sciences.
Our world-class faculty has expertise and research specialties in hydrogeology, paleontology and paleo-environments, near-surface geophysics, coastal geology, biogeography, climate science, environmental change, human-environmental modeling, remote sensing, and GIS.
The Department has demonstrated excellence incorporating research into high-quality scientific education, and strives to service the university, local, regional, national, and global communities through its research, degree programs, certificates, course offerings, professional training, mentoring, and outreach.
Pursue a Degree in Geosciences
Students that study Geosciences have the opportunity to experience all that nature has to offer. And at FAU, the world becomes your classroom - with a strong field-based research component that includes study areas throughout South Florida and across the globe.
NEW: Online Programs
MS in Geosciences, BA in Geosciences, BS in Geosciences and GIS Certificate
Geosciences now offers online M.S. in Geosciences, B.S. in Geosciences with a Geography focus and B.A. in Geosciences with a Geography focus degrees that will give students an understanding of not only where phenomena are located upon the Earth’s surface, but how they came to be there. Geographic Information Sciences (GIS) is emphasized to analyze these spatial relationships.
Also available to all students are fully online GIS Certificates.
Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) mapping
Geosciences' faculty use a Drone to map coastal environmental change
Highlights
Outside the Classroom
Fieldwork
