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Graduate Program Summary

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Graduate Degrees Offered

M.S.; Ph.D.
Areas of Study
  • Climatology
  • Hydrologic Sciences
  • Meteorology
  • Sedimentary Geology
Specializations - what's a specialization?
  • Hydrogeology
  • Environmental Studies
  • Geology
  • Great Plains Studies
  • Meteorology/Climatology
  • Water Resources Planning and Management (M.S.)



  

Geosciences

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Application Deadline

For Financial Consideration
   Fall: January 15
Otherwise
   Fall: March 1   Spring: September 1   Summer: February 1

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Description of Program

Researchers in the Department of Geosciences examine a wide variety of issues relevant to Earth systems and Earth system history. The primary emphasis is on Earth's atmospheric and hydrological systems and the interaction of these systems with the sedimentary cycle.

Recent graduates have performed research in physical and chemical hydrogeology, hydrogeologic modeling, surficial processes, geomorphology, sedimentology, vertebrate paleontology, micropaleontology, geochemistry, petrology, structure and tectonics, climate change, land/surface atmosphere interactions, physical climatology and meteorology, severe storms, snow and ice studies, surface energy balance modeling, and synoptic meteorology.

Departmental researchers have obtained large grants supporting multidisciplinary research efforts in areas as disparate as Antarctica and the Nebraska Sand Hills. They encourage collaborative work with the University of Nebraska State Museum, the Center for Advanced Land Management and Information Technologies, the School of Natural Resources, and other related University of Nebraska-Lincoln departments.

Recent graduates are employed as faculty by research universities and liberal arts colleges, and as weather forecasters, petroleum geologists, consulting geologists and scientific staff by various governmental agencies.



  

Graduate Bulletin

The Graduate Bulletin provides course descriptions, program requirements, and more:

Faculty and Research

Mark Anderson Polar Weather and Climate; Weather Analysis and Forecasting; Climate Change and Variability; Remote Sensing; Severe Weather
Christopher Fielding Sedimentology; Stratigraphy; Paleoclimatology; Petroleum Geology; Marine Geology
Tracy Frank Carbonate Sedimentology; Paleoclimatology; Marine Geology; Diagenesis; Stratigraphy
Sherilyn Fritz Quaternary Environments; Paleoclimatology; Limnology; Climate Change and Variability; Micropaleontology
Ronald Goble Optical Geochronology; Mineralogy; Geochemistry; Economic Geology
Priscilla Grew Biodiversity
John Griffin Regional Geologic Problems; Structural Geology
     Adjunct Faculty
David Harwood Micropaleontology; Stratigraphy; Paleoclimatology; Glacial Geology; Marine Geology
Mary Anne Holmes Clay Mineralogy; Sedimentology; Diagenesis; Stratigraphy
Adam Houston Atmospheric Convection; Mesoscale Processes; Severe Weather; Instrumentation; Climate Diagnostics
Q. Steve Hu Precipitation Variations; Climatology
Robert Hunt Vertebrate Paleontology; Stratigraphy
Erkan Istanbulluoglu Surface Hydrology; Ecohydrology Modeling; Surficial Processes; Landscape Evolution
R. Matthew Joeckel Paleozoic and Mesozoic Fossils; Environmental Geology; Mineral Resources; Sedimentology; Stratigraphy
Richard Kettler Organic Geochemistry; Aqueous Geochemistry; Mineral Deposits; Diagenesis
Merlin Lawson Climate Change and Reconstruction; Pleistocene and Historical Environments; Dendroclimatology; Remote Sensing
John Lenters Climate Change and Variability; Hydrometeorology; Land-Atmosphere Interactions; Limnology
Nancy Lindsley-Griffin Modern and Ancient Convergent Margins
David Loope Sedimentology; Paleoclimatology; Quaternary Environments
Robert Oglesby Climate Modeling; Climate Change and Variability; Paleoclimatology; Land-Atmosphere Interactions; Climate Diagnostics
Daryll Pederson Chemical and Physical Hydrogeology; Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions; Fluvial Geomorphology
Frank Rack Marine Geology; Sedimentology; Stratigraphy; Paleoclimatology; Land-Atmosphere Interactions
Clinton Rowe Boundary Layer Dynamics; Mesoscale Processes; Paleoclimatology; Land-Atmosphere Interactions
Norman Smith Sedimentology; Geomorphology; Physical Sedimentation
Jim Swinehart Sedimentology; Stratigraphy; Petrology
Sam Treves Igneous Petrology
     Emeritus
Michael Voorhies Vertebrate Paleontology
     Emeritus
Jun Wang Atmospheric Chemistry; Radiative Energy Budget; Remote Sensing; Data Assimilation
David Watkins Micropaleontology; Marine Geology; Stratigraphy; Paleoclimatology
Vitaly Zlotnik Physical and Chemical Hydrogeology; Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions; Hydrology; Aquifer Hydraulics
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