Department of Geology

Climate Change

10/3/17

The Climate Change group focuses on polar remote sensing and geophysics; glaciology; Arctic glacier history; and paleoclimatology.

Evolution and Ecology

10/3/17

The subject matter of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior is broad-ranging and encompasses the interactions between organism and environment responsible for the history of life on earth.

Center for GeoHazards Studies

10/3/17

The Center for Geohazards Studies supports research and training that improves our understanding and mitigates the consequences of natural hazards.

Environment and Energy

10/3/17

The Environment and Energy Group at UB is composed of three faculty and typically 10 to 15 graduate students. The group's efforts focus on field, laboratory, and numerical studies within the field of environmental geology.

Volcanoes and Geohazards

10/3/17

The Volcanoes and Geohazards Group at UB is a thriving community currently composed of four faculty, one research scientist, two postdoctoral researchers, and typically 20 to 30 graduate students.

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The Department of Geology drives innovation in the field. Our internationally active researchers investigate the most enduring questions on Earth.

Lava from scratch? Only at UB.

Professor Ingo Sonder, PhD, lead scientist at the University at Buffalo's Center for GeoHazards Studies, creates homemade lava by heating basaltic rock in a high-powered induction furnace.

Once the mixture is red hot and bubbling at 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit, it's ready to pour and Sonder's research into the danger that volcanoes near ice, lakes, oceans, and underground water sources pose to surrounding communities can begin.

Center for GeoHazards Studies

10/3/17

The Center for Geohazards Studies supports research and training that improves our understanding and mitigates the consequences of natural hazards.
Climate Change

10/3/17

The Climate Change group focuses on polar remote sensing and geophysics; glaciology; Arctic glacier history; and paleoclimatology.
Environment and Energy

10/3/17

The Environment and Energy Group at UB is composed of three faculty and typically 10 to 15 graduate students. The group's efforts focus on field, laboratory, and numerical studies within the field of environmental geology.
Evolution and Ecology

10/3/17

The subject matter of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior is broad-ranging and encompasses the interactions between organism and environment responsible for the history of life on earth.
Volcanoes and Geohazards

10/3/17

The Volcanoes and Geohazards Group at UB is a thriving community currently composed of four faculty, one research scientist, two postdoctoral researchers, and typically 20 to 30 graduate students.