Environmental Geoscience - Concord University

Environmental Geoscience - Concord University ConcordU Environmental Geosciences offers a career-oriented degree that merges geology, applied environmental science, and GIS. Will you be one?

The world needs geoscientists to manage environment, resources, and natural hazards. The Environmental Geosciences program at Concord University offers a career-oriented, flexible science bachelor's degree that merges traditional geology with applied environmental science. We have one of only three geology degree programs offered in West Virginia and the only one at a primarily undergraduate insti

tution in the state. Geoscientists find solutions to some of humanity's most challenging problems: finding and managing natural resources, reducing human loss and suffering from natural hazards and disasters, understanding environmental change on geologic and human time scales, and advising policy makers on scientific and environmental issues that affect society. Students in the program frequently work closely with the geoscience faculty to complete one or more semesters of undergraduate research. Our innovative research in structural geology, earthquake geology, volcanology, and paleoclimate is funded by a variety of grants that allow students to travel with us to remote field settings including Greenland, the Colorado Rockies, and the Pacific Northwest. This research is also supported by facilities including our electron microprobe laboratory, micro-X-ray fluorescence lab, sample preparation lab, field geophysical equipment (e.g., ground penetrating radar), and polarizing microscopes. Scientists with geoscience-related degrees are in high demand. In 2010, the average salary for geoscientists was $93,000, which was $27,000 more than the national average for other science occupations according to the American Geosciences Institute. By 2025, the US is projected to have a shortfall of more than 135,000 new geoscientists. The job outlook is very strong and more than 95% of our recent graduates have entered graduate school or found professional jobs soon after graduating, if not before.

CU Geology Club has a new logo
08/20/2026

CU Geology Club has a new logo

Great turnout for the first Geology Club meeting of the year! Students from lots of majors involved, not just geo majors...
08/20/2026

Great turnout for the first Geology Club meeting of the year!

Students from lots of majors involved, not just geo majors.

07/15/2026

ATHENS, WV — Athletics at Callaghan Stadium will be a new experience in Fall 2026 and beyond, thanks in large part to a generous donation from GoMart, Inc. The Gassaway-based company recently contributed $150,000 to assist in funding a new, LED, full-color, 22-foot-wide video scoreboard that Conco...

07/12/2026
07/12/2026
A student doing summer chemistry research was in the electron microscopy lab recently to look at some samples of synthet...
07/02/2026

A student doing summer chemistry research was in the electron microscopy lab recently to look at some samples of synthetic apatites. These had really great crystal shapes in them. The hydroxyapatites made in a beaker are the same mineral as found in bones and teeth.

Agates - Side benefit of a recent field research trip to Summer Lake, Oregon. Most of these will be given out to school ...
06/08/2026

Agates - Side benefit of a recent field research trip to Summer Lake, Oregon. Most of these will be given out to school kids later in the year.

Lots of activity at the recent Concord University student research festival, including several geoscience student poster...
04/27/2026

Lots of activity at the recent Concord University student research festival, including several geoscience student poster presentations

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