Students gain advanced knowledge of plate tectonics, structural geology, geophysics, geochemistry, petrology, rheology, stratigraphy, and geomorphology, in relation to evolution of the earth and planets; paleoecology, phylogeny reconstruction, and functional morphology in relation to biological evolution and paleoenvironments; environmental geology, geomorphology, ocean chemistry, paleoclimatology, and sedimentology in relation to modern/paleo climate change. Students graduate with the qualitative and quantitative skills necessary for professional research and teaching of earth structure and evolution; resource geology; paleobiology; paleoenvironments; modern/paleo climate change.
The campus is well situated to provide access to field areas exhibiting diverse geologic and tectonic phenomena, to the Bodega Marine Laboratory, and to other UC research stations.
Information
Program Address
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
2119 Earth & Physical Sciences
One Shields Ave
Davis, CA 95616
Phone:
(530) 752-0350
Fax:
(530) 752-0951
Program Type
Departmentally-Based Graduate Program
Lead Dean:
College of Letters and Science
Major Code:
GGEL
Administrative ByLaws
Application Deadlines
Priority:
Dec 15, 2020
General:
Jan 15, 2021
Space Available:
May 1, 2021
Prospective Student Fellowship:
Dec 15, 2020
Continuing Student Fellowship:
Jan 15, 2021
Degrees Offered
M.S. Plan I
Ph.D. Plan C