G-EOS-PHD - Earth and Climate Sciences - PhD

The Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences offers research opportunities in three broad areas of geoscience: earth-surface processes, oceans and climate, and earth resources. Earth-surface processes in EOS focus on the interactions between life, water, and landscapes, including coastal ecomorphodynamics and remote sensing, watershed ecohydrology, and landscape evolution, including that of coupled human-landscape systems. Oceans and climate research in EOS includes ocean circulation, atmospheric dynamics, paleoclimatic/ paleoenvironment reconstruction, marine biogeochemistry, and ocean/atmosphere interactions, particularly as they relate to global climate change. In addition, research in earth resources addresses the geologic formation and human use of mineral, energy, water, and land resources, including mineral formation, life-cycle analysis, energy consumption/emissions, water quality as it relates human health, and the role of technology in the Anthropocene.

Laboratory facilities available in the department are described in this bulletin under the chapter “Resources for Study”. 

Up-to-date information about the division and the faculty can be found at nicholas.duke.edu/academics/doctoral-programs/earth-climate-sciences-ecs.