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.
Thomas S. Duffy, Department Chair
Frederik J. Simons, Associate Chair
Nora K. Zelizer, Department Manager
Undergraduate Work Committee
Satish Myneni, Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS), Chair
Laure Resplandy, Director of the Minor (DoM)
Committee Members: Elizabeth Niespolo and Curtis A. Deutsch
Graduate Work Committee
John A. Higgins, Director of Graduate Studies (DGS), Chair
Committee Members: Jie Deng, JeroenTromp, and Bess Ward
Diversity Committee
Frederik J Simons, Chair
Linhan Shen and Julia Wilcots, Postdoctoral Representatives
Jenna A. Lee, Rilla McKeegan, and Naomi Intrator, Graduate Student Representatives
Farah Azmi and Isabel Rodrigues, Undergraduate Student Representatives
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Associated Research Programs
Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS)
The High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI)
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (NOAA/GFDL)
Princeton Materials Institute (PMI)
Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering (PICSciE)
Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP)
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