
Outside the Sherman Fairchild Physical Sciences Center on the first day of fall term classes. (photo: Joseph Mehling '69)
The Department of Earth Sciences (EARS) is devoted to the study of the natural world in which we live. Working with a tightknit faculty, our students take courses and pursue research under the broad category of 'environmental geosciences'. In our research, we combine field studies with laboratory-based and theoretical studies of fundamental processes affecting the Earth's surface through geologic time.
Department of Earth Sciences
Dartmouth College
6105 Fairchild Hall
Hanover, NH 03755