Minor in Earth and Planetary Sciences
The minor offers students in any major outside the department a flexible path to improved knowledge of earth and planetary sciences. With faculty advisers, students select courses that build basic knowledge in such fields as physical geology, geochemistry, geophysics, Earth materials, planetary science, climate change, or a combination of these. Students interested in the minor should pay close attention to prerequisite requirements for upper level courses.
Minor requirements (6 units)
- EARTH 201, 202 (350 may substitute for 202)
- Four 300-level courses in the department, one of which may be EARTH 398 or 399; One 400-level course may substitute with permission
See our advising page for more information about declaring a minor in Earth and Planetary Sciences.
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Building an Astronomical Timescale of the Maastrichtian (late Cretaceous)
Photos
Graduate student Maya Gomes carries the Earth in her hands during the EPS New Year celebration.
Young Ji Joo (left) and Darcy Li (right) stand with Professor Emeritus Abraham Lerman. The three worked on several projects together involving global biogeochemistry, particularly the coupling of N and Si with C cycles.
Graduate student John Lazarz centering a sample on the X-ray diffraction system in the mineral physics laboratory.
A warehouse of SPREE seismometors
Professor McInerney's Paleobiology class at the Field Museum of Natural History
EARTH 201 students at Natural Bridge State Park in Baraboo, WI
Rosemary Bush holding the part and counterpart (and a scale) of an incredibly well-preserved frog fossil in Ethiopia.
Andrew Jacobson's metal-free clean lab
Brian Kristall chisels a banded iron formation near Marquette, MI.
Greg Lehn collects water samples from a river on the North Slope of Alaska.
