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We are a leading Earth Science Department with researchers and teachers of the highest international calibre housed in a new, state-of-the-art building with bespoke facilities. We teach a cohort of very well-qualified students in 5 undergraduate Honours degree programmes: Geology BSc; Geoscience MSci; Earth Sciences BSc; Environmental Geosciences BSc; Geophysics with Geology BSc. Admissions to Durham are highly sought after, and we typically register 80 students each year, while also participating in the University’s prestigious Natural Sciences Programme. Major research units in the Department include: the Centre for Research in Earth Energy Systems and the Terrestrial Laser Scanning facility . The Department co-hosts the UK Ocean-Bottom Instrumentation Consortium and is a key collaborator in the University-wide the Institute for Hazard, Risk & Resilience and Durham Energy Institute. -
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Upcoming Department Seminars and Events:
International Women's Day: Earth Sciences - The Anne Isabella Milbanke Lecture
Seminar Dr Tom Mitchell (UCL): Variations in off-fault damage and hydraulic properties induced by earthquake rupture
Seminar Dr. Lloyd White (RHUL): Understanding the rates of tectonic processes
New Kīlauea volcanic health hazard study
A new study to examine how people who live downwind of Kīlauea Volcano cope with volcanic gas emissions, or vog, is currently underway. Led by Dr. Claire Horwell, the study is being conducted in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Read the press release here.
(18 Feb 2015) » More about New Kīlauea volcanic health hazard study
Newly Published book by Earth Sciences Senior Lecturer
Introducing Sedimentology by Durham University Earth Sciences Senior Lecturer Stuart Jones is a newly published book from Dunedin Academic Press and is the latest addition to their Geology and Earth Science book collection.
(20 Jan 2015) » More about Newly Published book by Earth Sciences Senior Lecturer
Tectonic Studies Group Student Success
Two Earth Sciences PhD students were awarded prizes for their contributions at this year's Tectonic Studies Group annual meeting in Edinburgh.
(20 Jan 2015) » More about Tectonic Studies Group Student Success
Prof Mike O’Hara
It is with great sadness that we learned this week that Professor Mike O’Hara passed away on 24 November 2014. Mike was an Honorary Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Durham and was a huge influence on many generations of petrologists and geochemists around the world. Professor Emeritus David Rickards (Cardiff University) kindly allowed us to post this obituary of Mike.
(28 Nov 2014)
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