Earth Science

Dartmouth Alums With This Major

• GIS Analyst, County of Chester, Pennsylvania
  (PA, Dartmouth '02)
• Exploration Manager, Ammex Gold Mining Corporation
  (NV, Dartmouth '70)
• Manager, Jet Propulsion Lab
  (CA, Dartmouth '75)
• Managing Director, Attitash Grand Summit Hotel
  (NH, Dartmouth '75)
• Compliance Branch Chief, US Army Garrison
  (AZ, Dartmouth '76)
• Senior Investigative Counsel, U.S. Senate Comm. on Homeland Security
  (MD, Dartmouth '85)
• Marketing Director, U.S. Biathlon Association
  (VT, Dartmouth '87)
• Associate Hydrogeologist, Brown and Caldwell
  (AZ, Dartmouth '93)
• Assistant Prof. of Volcanology, University of Hawaii
  (HI, Dartmouth '93)
• Water Resources Manager, Swinomish Tribal Community
  (WA, Dartmouth '93)
• Architect, Camp Cedar Design
  (MT, Dartmouth '61)

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Major Description

The Department includes all disciplines devoted to the study of the Earth. At the advanced level, research and teaching emphasize watershed processes, environmental geochemistry, advanced structural geology and geophysics, sedimentology, paleontology, and remote sensing, combining field research, both here and abroad, with laboratory and theoretical studies to understand the fundamental processes affecting applied earth sciences.

Skills Acquired

What is this?

• Critical Thinking
• Research and Quantitative Skills
• Writing skills
• Team work and collaboration

Possible Career Paths

• Resources (Energy & Minerals)
• Landscape (Environmental Geology, Geological Mapping, Astro-geology & Space Sciences)
• Hazards (Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Landslides, Floods)
• Education
• Business
• Law
• Healthcare

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