Geological Sciences Department

With a Geology Degree...

Show Your Cave Face

Will your journey include getting your serious caver face on and crawling through craters and caves with classmates?
Dig up the Past

Geology students find answers to why--like why snails put on evolutionary speed when they had to.
Start a Great Career

Find your passion--and your future--in energy, the environment, paleontology and more.

Geological Sciences

Students explore yesterday, today and tomorrow--whether they're uncovering fossils in Africa or Cincinnati, pursuing careers in energy all over the world, or solving environmental issues of the future such as water quality.

Geological Sciences 2021 Alumni Symposium

Glyptorthis, one of the species of brachiopods studied. Image: David Wright.

Deep Time

Geological Sciences researchers at Ohio University study fossils and much more.

Energy

Geology researchers at Ohio University study various energy resources.

Rodinia, a supercontinent whose breakup might have led to the assembly of Gondwana and Pannotia.

Supercontinents

Researchers tell Earth’s radical story of birth and destruction through supercontinents.

Alumni & Careers

Alumni stay involved and are key to 100 percent career placement.

Water

Researchers at Ohio University study restoring biology in acid mine drainage streams.