Statistics:
| 14 active faculty |
| 41 graduate students |
EAS has two locations, Snee Hall (C6) and the 11th floor of Bradfield Hall (E5). The department administers two graduate fields, Geological Sciences and Atmospheric Sciences, both of which offer M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. The department also plays a major role in the graduate program in Biogeochemistry.
The department's research facilities, housed in Snee Hall (C6) and Bard Hall (C6), include the Cornell Center for Materials Research, the X-ray Diffraction Facility, and the Electron & Optical Microscopy Laboratory.
The following research projects are currently being funded:
| High Pressure Mineral Physics Laboratory |
| W. M. Keck Foundation Isotope Laboratory |
| Cornell Andes Project (CAP) |
| Earth Observing System (EOS) |
| Geological and Geophysical Information for the |
| Middle East, North Africa, and Eurasia |
| Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling |
| (COCORP) |
| URSEIS - Urals Deep Seismic |
| Global Basins Research Network (GBRN) |
| Modeling of Fault Propogation Folds |
| Biological Oceanography |
| Evironmental Geophysics |
| Space Science in EAS |
The department is unusual in that it is both a part of the College of Engineering and the College of Arts and Sciences. Faculty members of the department are drawn from many different majors at Cornell, including Civil and Environmental Engineering, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Astronomy, and Materials Science. This enables EAS majors to easily study many different subjects and broaden their education far beyond the standard graduate program. Their research interests cover over 10 aspects, such as economic geology, engineering geology, environmental geophysics, geobiology, geochemistry and isotope geology, geohydrology, geomorphology, geotectonics, mineralogy, paleontology, petroleum geology, petrology, planetary geology, Precambrian geology, Quaternary geology, rock mechanics, sedimentology, seismology, stratigraphy, and structural geology.