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- The Geosciences department is a dynamic and growing department within the
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Massachusetts
Amherst. Amherst is the main campus of the University of Massachusetts, which
is a Research 1 University. Currently, the Department has around 25 professors
dedicated to research and teaching, 15 adjunct faculty and post-docs, over 50
graduate students, and an active undergraduate population of approximately 100
majors.
Research expertise in the Department of Geosciences spans the full range of
geology and geography, and provides a fundamental basis for the integrated,
global-scale study of earth systems.
Website: http://www.geo.umass.edu/
[Summary provided by the University of Massachusetts.]
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