Publications

For Undergraduate Students

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This brochure is meant to give comprehensive coverage of the academic requirements for GEO undergraduate students and provide information on individual courses offered.

For Graduate Students

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  • Graduate Student Handbook
    Last Update: 07/31/2023
    This guide comprehensively covers the academic requirements for attaining a Ph.D. in GEO. It focuses on the first and second years, as these have the most requirements. Information pertaining to subsequent years focuses on dissertation research and career services.

 

For Alumni

The Smilodon is the newsletter for the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University. Highlights from the publication are letters from the Chair, research timeline, department and alumni news, awards, books, and deaths. If you are interested in submitting a story write to [email protected].

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Featured article:

Rock Magnetism Lab is Exhumed

The Princeton campus is evolving — and not at a glacial pace. Twelve major construction projects are carving up the campus (https://facilities.princeton.edu/projects) and one of them that broke ground on Ivy Lane this summer will be the new home of Geosciences.

And as part of another project, that quirky underground Rock Magnetism Laboratory half-buried between Guyot and Eno Halls, which was the site of ground-breaking 20th century research, will become a part of Princeton history.

The Smilodon is the alumni newsletter for the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University. Highlights from the publication are letters from the Chair, research timeline, department and alumni news, awards, books, and deaths. If you are interested in submitting a story write to Laurel Goodell