Central Washington University offers a Masters program in Geological Sciences that aims to prepare students for professional employment in geoscience careers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond or for continuing graduate studies at the doctoral level. We specialize in active and regional tectonics, structural geology, and geodynamics, climate change, paleoflood studies, and environmental geochemistry, geochronology, petrology, and volcanology, and seismic risk and GPS geodesy. This program normally leads to employment in consulting firms, in local, state, or federal government resource-based or planning agencies, in teaching at community colleges or at a secondary level, and to serve as a foundation for graduate studies beyond the M.S. level. It is also good high-level technical background for those interested in following related careers, such as environmental law, natural resource management, or teaching at the secondary level. The Department encourages an integrative, multi-disciplinary approach.