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University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Department of Geosciences

Earth, Air, & Water

Research

Faculty in the Department of Geosciences conduct research in most sub-disciplines of geosciences, but with particular emphasis on the following geologic, atmospheric and hydrologic areas:

Earth

Air

Water

  • Carbonate sedimentology
  • Clay mineralogy
  • Climate change and variability
  • Climate diagnostics
  • Climate modeling
  • Diagenesis
  • Fluvial geomorphology
  • Geochemistry
  • Glacial geology
  • Groundwater-surface water interactions
  • Land-atmosphere interactions
  • Marine geology
  • Micropaleontology
  • Mineral deposits
  • Ocean chemistry
  • Organic geochemistry
  • Paleoclimatology
  • Paleolimnology and paleohydrology
  • Petroleum geology
  • Petrology
  • Quaternary environments
  • Remote sensing
  • Sedimentology
  • Stratigraphy
  • Structure-tectonics
  • Surface hydrology / ecohydrology modeling
  • Surficial processes and landscape evolution
  • Urban/engineering geology
  • Vertebrate paleontology
  • Atmospheric chemistry
  • Atmospheric convection
  • Atmospheric radiative transfer
  • Boundary layer dynamics
  • Chemistry-meteorology coupled modeling
  • Climate change and variability
  • Climate diagnostics
  • Climate modeling
  • Data assimilation
  • Hydrometeorology
  • Instrumentation
  • Land-atmosphere interactions
  • Limnology
  • Mesoscale processes
  • Paleoclimatology
  • Paleolimnology and paleohydrology
  • Polar weather and climate
  • Radiative energy budget
  • Remote sensing
  • Severe weather
  • Surface hydrology / ecohydrology modeling
  • Weather analysis and forecasting
  • Aquatic biogeochemistry
  • Aqueous geochemistry
  • Aquifer hydraulics and hydrogeophysics
  • Atmospheric chemistry
  • Chemical and physical hydrogeology
  • Chemistry-meteorology coupled modeling
  • Climate change and variability
  • Fluvial geomorphology
  • Geochemistry
  • Glacial geology
  • Groundwater-surface water interactions
  • Grounwater-surface water interactions
  • Hydrogeologic modeling
  • Hydrogeophysics and aquifer hydraulics
  • Hydrology
  • Hydrometeorology
  • Land-atmosphere interactions
  • Limnology
  • Micropaleontology
  • Paleoclimatology
  • Paleolimnology and paleohydrology
  • Physical and chemical hydrogeology
  • Quaternary environments
  • Surface hydrology / ecohydrology modeling
  • Surface water - groundwater interactions
  • Surficial processes and landscape evolution