Miami University

The department offers exciting student and faculty research possibilities in the fields of geomicrobiology and life in extreme environments, geophysics, seismology, mantle dynamics, igneous petrology, volcanology, low-temperature geochemistry, mineral surface geochemistry, mineralogy and crystallography, sedimentology and stratigraphy, tectonics and structural geology, paleoclimatology and geomorphology, hydrogeology and contaminant transport, stable and radiogenic isotope geochemistry and paleobotany.

Many of our research areas include areas beyond Ohio/Indiana/Kentucky. Recent and ongoing opportunities include field-oriented studies in Alaska, Albania, Argentina, the Bahama Islands, Canada, China, Ethiopia, India, Japan, Mexico, Nepal, Norway, the Oregon Plateau, Pakistan, Portugal (Azores), the Snake River Plain, Chile, Turkey, Yemen and the Rocky Mountains.