The Geosciences Department, together with its affiliated inter-departmental programs and institutes, serves as the central focus for the Earth, atmospheric and oceanographic sciences at Princeton. As such we encompass a rich diversity of scientific expertise and initiative that ranges, for example, from the measurement and modeling of biogeochemical cycles and global climatic change, to high-pressure mineral physics, to seismic tomographic imaging of the Earth's interior and the analysis of terrestrial and planetary tectonics.

Bess Ward, Department Chair
Frederik Simons, Associate Chair
Nora Zelizer, Department Manager

Undergraduate Work Committee

Adam Maloof, Undergraduate Department Representative
Jessica Irving, Satish Myneni, Allan Rubin and Laure Resplandy

Graduate Work Committee

Blair Schoene, Director of Graduate Studies
Stephan Fueglistaler, John Higgins, Jeroen Tromp and Gabriel Vecchi

Diversity Committee

Frederik Simons, Chair
Bess Ward and John A. Higgins