Earth System Science

Department of Geosciences



The Interdisciplinary PhD Program in
Earth System Science (ESS)

 

 

Affiliated Colleges and Programs

College of Sciences and Mathematics
School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences
College of Agriculture
College of Engineering
College of Liberal Arts
International Center for Climate and Global Change Research

 

Research Opportunities and Laboratory Facilities

Students will be engaged in all aspects of research and mentored by strong cross-disciplinary faculty group, including new faculty hires from the CHESS   (Climate , Human , and Earth System Science ) cluster initiatives. Students can choose among various areas of academic specialization (e.g., climate and earth systems, geological sciences and energy, environmental biogeochemistry, water resources and hydrology, coastal processes, ecosystem and food security, coupled natural and human systems, geospatial sciences, big data science, etc.). Laboratory and coursework provide students with a multidisciplinary background that will enable them to conduct state-of-the art research in earth system science. Auburn’s state-of-the-art analytical and computational facilities and labs are available to all students in the PhD program.

Department of Geosciences Research Instrumentation and Facilities
Auburn Allied Facilities

 

Affiliated Faculty for the Program

College of Sciences and Mathematics

Department of Biological Sciences

  Aaron Rashotte

 

  

Department of Geosciences

  Laura Bilenker

  Brian Boston

  Thomas Cullen

  Raphael Gottardi

  Bill Hames

  David King

  Ming-Kuo Lee

  Luke Marzen

  Karen McNeal

  Chandana Mitra

  Ann Ojeda

  Stephanie Rogers

  Stephanie Shepherd

  Ashraf Uddin

  Richard Vachula
  Haibo Zou

 

 

 

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

  Ash Abebe

   

 

School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences

  Christopher Anderson

  Latif Kalin

  Sanjiv Kumar

  Christopher Lepczyk

  Wayde Morse   Zutao Yang

 

Samuel Ginn College of Engineering

Department of Civil Engineering

  Xing Fang

  Frances O'Donnell

  Jose Vasconcelos

Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering

  Wei-Shinn Ku

 

 

 

College of Agriculture

Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology

  Ruiqing Miao

  Denis Nadolnyak

 

Department of Biosystem Engineering

  Sushil Adhikar

  William Batchelor

 

Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences

  Charles Y. Chen

  Yucheng Feng

  Brenda Ortiz

  Di Tian

  Matthew Waters

 

School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences

  Dennis DeVries

 

 

 

College of Liberal Arts

Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work

  Kelly Alley

 

 

 

Auburn University Montgomery

Department of Biology and Environmental Science

  Benedict Okeke

 

 

 

Ph.D. Program Contact Information

Dr. Chandana Mitra, Program Director of Earth System Science PhD Program, CZM0033@auburn.edu, 334-844-4229.

Dr. Raphael Gottardi, Graduate Program Officer in Geosciences, RZG0099@auburn.edu.