This story originally appeared on Atlas Obscura and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If you decide to pursue a degree in geology, be prepared to spend some time in the wilderness, where you ...

Geology students at Wichita State are trading their hiking boots for laptops this summer, in a field class with a socially-distanced twist. When the coronavirus pandemic made the field geology course ...

University of Washington geologists had set out to create computer-based field experiences long before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Juliet Crider, a UW associate professor of Earth and space sciences, ...

Across the dry, scrubby hills of the Mojave Desert, a group of Johns Hopkins scientists and students spent three weeks this month working to understand millions of years of Earth's history. Evidence ...

LAWRENCE -- For a geoscientist, the benefits of performing fieldwork are countless. Researching in nature gives geoscientists firsthand contact with the earth's raw materials and a chance to test ...

For Leilani Arthurs, assistant professor of geological sciences, facilitating her students’ ability to conduct field work in an online environment was a real challenge, but one she was determined to ...