Miami's Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science offers three programs for advanced study (Ph.D., M.S., and M.A.). Both the Ph.D. and the M.S. degrees require a substantial component of original research culminating in a dissertation or thesis, respectively. The M.A. is a non-thesis degree.

Research Emphases

• Geomicrobiology and life in extreme environments
• Geophysics, seismology and mantle dynamics
• Hydrogeology and contaminant transport
• Igneous petrology and volcanology
• Isotope Geochemistry
• Low-temperature and environmental geochemistry
• Mineralogy and crystallography
• Mineral surface geochemistry
• Paleobiology and paleoecology
• Paleoclimatology and geomorphology
• Sedimentology and stratigraphy
• Tectonics and structural geology
• Planetary geology