The Department of Earth Sciences at Dartmouth College supports graduate students in a wide variety of research fields, including, but not limited to, Earth Surface and Environmental Processes, Climate and Cryospheric Sciences, Earth and Planetary History. We recruit students at both the MSc and PhD levels. The MSc degree is intended to train students for professional careers in the Earth and Planetary Sciences, or as preparation for further graduate study. The PhD is conferred upon candidates who have demonstrated scholarship and expertise in their chosen specialty, and who have conducted novel and extensive independent research. To this end, the doctoral program is designed to develop the skills and perspectives needed to conduct, interpret, present, and publish original research in the Earth and Planetary Sciences.