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.

Princeton University is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination. To maximize excellence, we seek talent from all segments of American society and the world, and we take steps to ensure that everyone at Princeton can thrive while they are here. That is the sole rationale and purpose of our diversity and inclusion programs, all of which are voluntary and open to all, and which comply with federal and state non-discrimination laws. Princeton does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, ethnicity, color, national origin, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic, and Princeton does not provide special benefits or preferential treatment on the basis of a protected characteristic.