Earth and Environmental Geoscience Department

��Ƶ Earth and Environmental Geoscience Department

Earth and Environmental Geoscience offers a highly relevant, integrative, scientific avenue of study for managing our interactions with the environment, providing adequate resources, ensuring the safety of the built environment in the face of natural hazards, and solving the complex history of earth and its continuing evolution. We make extensive use of the extraordinary geology of the Appalachians and other locales around the globe, including Iceland, the Colorado Plateau, Hawai’i, Utah, Belize, New Zealand, and Greece. We offer many research opportunities using scientific computing, field programs, laboratory analyses, and GIS mapping.

Feature Stories

Gray’s funded research will focus on autonomous oceanographic systems and materials science.

Marvelli’s funded research will focus on patterns of groundwater erosion.

Schwab taught geology at ��Ƶ for 36 years.

The Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science from the University of Pennsylvania will discuss his new book, “Science Under Siege,” on March 4.

The Exchange connects the university community with free supplies while reducing waste.

The group presented their research at the 2025 GSA Connects Annual Meeting.

W&L students studied samples of moon rocks from NASA to better understand the geological history of Earth, discovering new ways to view the world around them.

The funding will be used to purchase a confocal Raman imaging microscope for geoscientific investigations.

At the 2025 undergraduate Commencement, Barbara Jenkins ’92L, Kate Jenkins Howard ’99 and Kylie Therrien ’25 became the first female triple generation legacy at ��Ƶ.

Denby’s funded research will focus on erosional river processes.

Howard Capito ’68 established the Christopher D. Connors Endowment for Earth and Environmental Geoscience to honor the “living legend” and support student internships in geology and related fields.