Immersive
Field Camp
Department of Geology and Geophysics students have the opportunity to participate in the Tom A. Thorson Geology Field Camp.
BEst Value
Geology Department
We have been ranked best value geology department in the country in 2019, 2020 and 2021 and recently no.15 in the top US Geology Schools table for 2024.
Diversity &
Inclusitivity
We will strive in all our endeavors to promote diversity and advance inclusion and equity in thought, perspective, culture, and human identity.
150 Students, 24 faculty and scholarshipS worth over $620,000
Explore Earth's processes and uncover the secrets hidden beneath its surface!
The Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wyoming has been ranked No. 3 in the nation in a new 2024 “best value” list by College Factual, an online service that helps “every student get their best fit education for less”. The rankings also take into account the average time students take to graduate, as well as the quality the school provides and the average yearly cost of attendance. We were also the highest ranked science graduate program at UW in the 2022 U.S.News rankings.
The G&G Department had its inaugural float trip through the Grand Canyon in August 2024. It was an amazing trip!. The scenery was fabulous, and the students and faculty enjoyed wide ranging discussions about billions of years of Earth history including the modern Colorado River and its management. Students earned course credit for this lifetime experience. The big rapids were pretty cool too! We hope that you all can join us in future years!
Congratulations to recent graduate Lauren Sauley who just won a prestigious study abroad Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals (CBYX) fellowship to Germany. The CBYX program for young professionals consists of three phases: two months of intensive German language training; one semester of classes in the participant’s academic or career field at a university, technical or professional school; and a three- to five-month internship in the participant’s career field.
In May 2024, Professor Barbara John was one of four members of the Wyoming community to be recognized for excellence in global engagement. She was acknowledged for her leadership and participation in multiple international expeditions, student engagement and for her expertise in extensional tectonics and scientific ocean drilling. Last summer, John took part in International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 399, which drilled the deepest ever hole into the Earth's mantle at Atlantis Massif, an underwater mountain in the Atlantic Ocean (John (left) with part of the international team [Alex Roth/IODP JOIDES Resolution photo]).
Congratulations to Madeline Lewis, assistant professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics, who received a UW-National Park Service Research Grant for a project called: “Assembling Wyoming: Examining ancient metamorphic and tectonic conditions that formed the southern Teton gneisses.”
Ellen Polites, a fifth-year Ph.D. geology student from York, Pa., recieved a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program Award. Ellen will conduct her research fellowship at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., from January through June 2024 on the topic of “Unraveling new reactive transport pathways of multi-phase REE (rare earth element) cycling in low temperature basins.”
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Professor Emeritus Carol Frost, of the University of Wyoming’s Department of Geology and Geophysics, will co-chair a consensus study led by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine titled “Optimizing the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Mineral Resources Program Science Portfolio.” The study began in April 2024 and be completed within about 18 months, when a public report is issued.
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