Understanding Planetary Evolution and Environments, Starting at Earth

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Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences encompass a range of interrelated disciplines focused on understanding the origin of Earth and planetary systems, the processes that operate within them, and their evolution through time. We study the physics and chemistry of the solid Earth and its planetary neighbors, the causes and consequences of plate tectonics, and the origin and importance of the oceans and atmosphere. This knowledge is applied to understanding the causes and consequences of climate change, interactions between Earth processes and biosphere, preparing for natural hazards, locating, managing and utilizing Earth’s natural resources, and exploring our solar system and beyond. Faculty, students and researchers work all over the world, on all continents, in all of the oceans, and on four planets. All members of our community contribute to our department’s mission (click HERE for EEPS DEI statement) to pursue excellence in research, education and outreach in the fields of Earth, environmental, energy, and planetary sciences.

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Helge Gonnermann and his research group are part of a collaboration to study how the Cordón Caulle volcano is changing and what risks might arise in t...

EEPS graduate student Jack Henry has been awarded a prestigious NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) gra...

Martha Lou Broussard looks at her Distinguished Alumni award

Monday, Nov. 4, 2024

EEPS Homecoming 2024

EEPS 2024 Homecoming features Distinguished Alumni awardee Martha Lou Broussard and Science in a Flash talk given by graduate student Eleanor Moreland...

EEPS Ph.D. candidate Miriam Gammerman awarded Rice Chevron Energy Graduate Fellowship ...

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