Our mission is to achieve excellence in education, research, and scholarship in the Geosciences.

We support Princeton’s commitment to diversity and strive to cultivate an inclusive learning and working environment.

We embrace Princeton’s robust support for free expression, and we seek to foster critical thinking, mutual respect, and intellectual diversity.

As a department, we do not engage in advocacy or activism or promote any institutional orthodoxy. Departmental statements are restricted only to matters that directly and significantly relate to our core academic mission of promoting excellence in education, research and scholarship in the Geosciences. This, however, does not in any way restrict individual members of the department from freely expressing or advocating for their own viewpoints.