Earth Sciences in the News

The Department of Earth Sciences stands at the forefront of pressing global issues, such as climate change, resource management and environmental protection. Learn more about how our expert faculty and fearless students conduct research that impacts the world around us. 

  • Hunting for evidence of magma
    11/18/25
    UB earth sciences students develop valuable fieldwork skills during a trip to New Hampshire to study igneous rocks and volcanic landscapes.
  • EarthEd Institute inspires science teachers across WNY
    9/16/25
    UB's EarthEd Institute brought 15 local 6-12 science teachers to campus to learn from the experts.
  • GLY is evolving to ERT
    7/16/25
    With the exciting news of the Department of Geology evolving to the Department of Earth Sciences, there will also be a change in course prefixes. Starting in spring 2025, courses previously identified with the GLY prefix will now use the ERT prefix.
  • UB Department of Geology is now the Department of Earth Sciences
    3/3/25
    The University at Buffalo Department of Geology is about much more than rocks and minerals. Its faculty and students perform cutting-edge research on everything from how glaciers react to climate change, to how molten lava behaves during volcanic eruptions. A few of them even helped NASA photograph last year’s total solar eclipse. To better reflect this, the department will now be known as the Department of Earth Sciences.
  • UB alum maps minerals for USGS
    2/6/25
    Bernard Hubbard, PhD '01, didn’t set out to map minerals. As a geology PhD student at UB, he used satellite and airborne instruments to study volcanoes from above. Later, as a research geologist with the United States Geological Survey (USGS), he began using this same remote-sensing technology to find mineral deposits, which can contain the critical elements desperately needed for electronics, defense and renewable energy.