The Department has an active undergraduate research mentoring program in which undergraduate students work on a research project with a faculty member and are mentored by one of that faculty member’s graduate students.

Hydrology is the study of the waters of the earth on and below the surface of the planet. Hydrology also involves the study of the various properties of water and its relationship with the living and nonliving environment. Areas of specialization within the Department include: surface and groundwater hydrology; watershed dynamics; hydrogeology; and ecosystem hydrology. Fields of application with hydrology include groundwater management and consulting; water pollution research and regulation; and hydrologic modeling and analysis.

Within the Department, geosciences research focuses on the physical, chemical, and biological processes that converge near Earth’s surface. This varied work connects the solid Earth with the hydrosphere, cryosphere, atmosphere and biosphere.