The Department of Geology and Geography is a vibrant academic unit with full-time faculty spanning the physical and social sciences.
Undergraduate Students
- The Department is housed in Brooks Hall, renovated in 2008, which has state of
the art labs and teaching facilities.
- The field camp experience course has been taught in South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana every summer since 2000. Before that it was taught for 40 years in southern WV.
- The Department has international exchange programs with UniLaSalle in Beauvais (France) and University of Cork (Ireland).
- Every lab course is a small group and activities are hands-on.
Graduate Students
- The Department has one of the highest success rates for NSF Doctoral Dissertation Awards at WVU in support of PhD students.
- There were 81 active PhD and MS students in the department in 2019.
- Excellent computer resources includes industry software for GIS, remote sensing, structural modeling and subsurface interpretation.
Faculty
- Faculty conduct research in geographical regions as diverse as western U.S. to Malawi and Mongolia.
- Research funding comes from at least 25 sources, including NSF and 11 other federal agencies, four state agencies and five energy corporations.
- Geology & Geography faculty generate a significant number of publications and extramural funding — in just one academic year alone they produced 115 publications and $10.6 million dollars in funding.
- Meet Our Faculty and explore their Research