The Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences help you understand the world around, under, and above you.
Connect human activity and natural events, including issues ranging from the environment to urban planning to planetary bodies.
Are multidisciplinary sciences that help us to understand the dynamic earth: its past, present, and future.
Are hands-on sciences – from the classroom to the lab to the field.
The Case Western Reserve University Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences gives you opportunities to work directly with faculty who care about the learning, research, and teaching of geological sciences.
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Meet Sara Olmsted, Senior Major in Environmental Geology
Tell us something about where you grew up. I grew up in Richmond, Kentucky, and was always moving around as a kid. My favorite thing about Kentucky is the natural beauty, it's underrated and has the prettiest sunsets out of anywhere I've lived. What do you like about the EEPS Dept? I appreciate how...
Meet Scott Maurer, Senior Major in Geology
Tell us something about where you grew up. I grew up in Solon, Ohio about half an hour from CWRU. The proximity to home is part of why I came to Case and I actually was on campus for the first time in sixth grade for a Science Olympiad tournament. What...
Meet Amanda Theall, Senior Major in Environmental Geology
Tell us something about where you grew up. I grew up in Portland, Maine for the majority of my life. Maine was a very spectacular place to grow up, as I was on the coast but also 1 hour from the White Mountains. So I had the best of both worlds, both swimming and hiking within a day...
Meet Yunlang Zhang, Sr. Major in Geology
Tell us something about where you grew up. I grew up in Tianjin, China, which is a city on the east coast of China by the Bohai Gulf. In Tianjin, there is a lot of delicious food, especially for breakfast, and the city is famous for its steamed buns. My...
EEPS Professor James Van Orman is part of a team reversing the view of how minerals behave deep below our planet’s surface
In a paper published this month in the journal Nature, Van Orman and colleagues from France and the California Institute of Technology reported new findings that shed new light on the dynamics of Earth’s deep mantle. To read more, click on this link to read the article from the CWRU Daily.
EEPS Colloquium: Friday, January 27 2023
Dr. Scott Hardy (CWRU) will present "Investigating Critical Environmental Issues in the Great Lakes: Applied Research from Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Laboratory". The talk will be held Friday, January 27, 2023 at noon in Rm. 104 AW Smith.