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The graduate program in geological sciences offers both Ph.D. and M.S.
degrees to full- and part-time students. The program is designed
to provide a challenging yet fostering educational atmosphere that
encourages independent and critical thinking, the development of
communication and teaching skills, and the performance of creative and
original research. Primary areas of study include marine geology,
paleoceanography, biogeochemistry, marine micropaleontology,
paleoclimatology, structure and regional tectonics, seismology, basin
analysis, volcanology, geochemistry and geochronology, paleomagnetics,
experimental petrology, and meteoritics. Graduate certificate
programs are available in quaternary studies and engineering geophysics.
Admission
requirements include an undergraduate B.A., B.S., or M.S. in geology or
a related science, GPA greater than 3.0, satisfactory GRE scores, and three
letters of recommendation. Nearly all full-time graduate students are
supported by fellowships, teaching assistantships, and/or research
grants. Faculty grants and university funds provide students with
additional support for study and research during the school year and
summer, as well as participation at regional and national conferences.
The
Ph.D. requires a minimum of 33 credits of coursework plus research
credits totaling at least 72 credits overall. (For students
transferring to Rutgers, a maximum of 24 course credits may be
transferred.) To advance to Ph.D. candidacy, in addition to
coursework, the student must: (1) successfully pass oral and
written qualifying examinations; and (2) prepare and defend a written
dissertation proposal. For completion of the Ph.D., the candidate
must successfully present and defend a dissertation.
The M.S.
degree requires 24 credits of coursework and 6 credits of
research. In addition to coursework, the student must
submit a short written thesis proposal. The M.S. degree is granted
following completion of the written thesis, approved by the thesis
adviser and committee, and its open departmental oral defense.
Graduate
student research projects can take full advantage of the region's
diverse geology as well as part of numerous ongoing faculty research
projects worldwide including the Appalachian Paleozoic fold and thrust
belt, Triassic-Jurassic rift basins, the Mesozoic-Cenozoic coastal
plain, the volcanic zone of Central America, Antarctica, and Iceland, the
East African rift system, Atlantic offshore basins, the Newark Basin
Drilling Project, the Hawaii Scientific Drilling Project, the Coastal
Plain Drilling Project, as well as on archival DSDP and ODP core
materials.
Shared faculty, research, and facilities with
Rutgers' Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, as well as with
departments of anthropology, environmental sciences, geography,
chemistry, and physics, offer additional means of study and research
possibilities. Facilities and resources at Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the American
Museum of Natural History are a few of the many nearby northeast
research resources. In addition to coursework at Rutgers, students can
take advantage of listings at nearby Princeton and Columbia
universities.
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