地质学和地球物理学的互补领域合并在一个跨学科的部门中，两个学科都提供研究生学位。本科学位是地质和地球物理学。在自然地球现象的研究中，地质学提供了不同的机会来融合许多学科的知识。那些喜欢将各种信息集成到统一解释中的挑战者，会发现地质特别令人满意。大多数地质学生都喜欢旅行，并且对当今和过去45亿年的自然环境产生了浓厚的兴趣。具有历史和顺序思维，归纳推理和三维感知的自然能力是有帮助的，这些技能将得到发展。地质调查正变得越来越具有定量性和实验性，因此需要一定的计算机经验，并在化学，物理和数学方面有扎实的基础。
The interdisciplinary department of Geoscience offers an undergraduate degree in geology and geophysics, with graduate degrees offered in both disciplines.<br><br>The Geology and Geophysics major offers unusual opportunities to integrate knowledge and technology from chemistry, biology, physics, engineering, space science, and other disciplines to understand processes that have shaped the Earth, its environments, and the life that it has sustained over billions of years. Geoscientists provide insight on surface and ground water resources and how to protect and preserve them. They probe the causes and potential risks associated with natural hazards including earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, hurricanes, landslides, climate change, and sea level rise. Sustainable exploration and extraction of key mineral resources needed to build and power a resilient and green society depends on well-trained geoscientists.<br><br>To explore Earth history, develop materials and energy resources, and to take the pulse of a dynamic planet, geoscientists use an extraordinary array of tools including satellites to measure changes of Earth's surface, sensitive instruments to detect seismic waves for exploring resources underground, cutting-edge instrumentation to measure the composition of minerals and rocks at microscopic scales, and computational approaches to assemble and interrogate enormous sets of data acquired from rocks and fossils across the globe.