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Earth and Environmental Geoscience Department

Earth and Environmental Geoscience offers a highly relevant, integrative, scientific avenue of study for managing our interactions with the environment, providing adequate resources, ensuring the safety of the built environment in the face of natural hazards, and solving the complex history of earth and its continuing evolution. We make extensive use of the extraordinary geology of the Appalachians and other locales around the globe, including Iceland, the Colorado Plateau, Hawai’i, Utah, Belize, New Zealand, and Greece. We offer many research opportunities using scientific computing, field programs, laboratory analyses, and GIS mapping.

Feature Stories


At the 2025 undergraduate Commencement, Barbara Jenkins 鈥92L, Kate Jenkins Howard 鈥99 and Kylie Therrien 鈥25 became the first female triple generation legacy at 91传媒.

Denby鈥檚 funded research will focus on erosional river processes.

Howard Capito 鈥68 established the Christopher D. Connors Endowment for Earth and Environmental Geoscience to honor the 鈥渓iving legend鈥 and support student internships in geology and related fields.

This fall, W&L 91传媒 learned environmental field methods at a six-acre site in Rockbridge County set aside for experiential learning.

Greer鈥檚 talk, 鈥淐oral Reefs Past, Present and Future and Our Human Footprint,鈥 will be held Jan. 15 in Science Addition 214.

The Gilman Scholarship Program offers awards of up to $5,000 to U.S. undergraduate 91传媒 who are Pell Grant recipients.

Marvelli enjoys building a community on campus as an RA and through her academic work.

Margaret Hinkle

Hinkle and fellow scientists from the University of Pittsburgh will share the $550,000 award to examine the potential of adapting acid mine drainage remediation systems to produce critical minerals in economically viable concentrations.

By enlisting guidance from the W&L science community, Emma Marvelli 鈥27 combined a Spring Term abroad class with summer research to better understand Virginia meta-basalts and their potential for combating climate change.

In September, Maloy will move to Germany for a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship.

Margaret Anne Hinkle collaborated with additional authors to produce an article focused on manganese exposure in spring and well water in the Shenandoah Valley.

After 25 years, W&L faculty member Chris Connors teaches his swan song Spring Term class, Field Methods and Regional Geology of the Appalachians.

Department Info

  • Earth and Environmental Geoscience Department
    204 West Washington Street
    91传媒
    Lexington, Virginia 24450

Lisa Greer

Department Head

Ry Williams

Administrative Assistant