
EOS Professor Warns of Global Mining Crisis in Tropical Rivers
Evan Dethier, visiting assistant professor of earth and oceanographic science, began the new year with a feature article in Science News.
Read moreEvan Dethier, visiting assistant professor of earth and oceanographic science, began the new year with a feature article in Science News.
Read moreBolden, an oceanographer, returned to campus November 14 to give a talk on his pioneering biogeochemical investigations into the world's imperiled coral reefs.
Read moreA steady November rain couldn’t deter more than sixty-five hardy Mainers from attending an open house at the Schiller Coastal Studies Center on November 13. The first such event in the new facilities on Orrs Island attracted neighbors, potential students and families, and Bowdoin alumni, staff, and faculty.
Read moreBowdoin College has appointed marine biologist, policy expert, author, and climate justice expert Ayana Elizabeth Johnson the new Roux Distinguished Scholar.
Read moreIn July, professor Phil Camill and Ana Gunther ’23 traveled to Canada's Baffin Island, searching for color amid its remote and rocky terrain. What they discovered far exceeded their expectations.
Read moreWhen you tell anyone who is even remotely familiar with Kent Island that you are about to embark on a journey to this far-flung place, you hear two things—that it is an amazing opportunity for students and that it will take you forever and potentially four modes of transportation to get there.
Read moreIn 2019, when she was in her junior year at Bowdoin, Anneka Williams decided she needed a concrete goal to help pull her through uncertain times.
Read moreIn late June, Science published earth and oceanographic science faculty member Evan Dethier's co-authored research paper, "Rapid changes to global river suspended sediment flux by humans."
Read moreBowdoin College has named Holly Parker director of the newly expanded Schiller Coastal Studies Center (SCSC), the College’s 118-acre research facility thirteen miles from the main campus on Casco Bay.
Read moreFrom political science to neuroscience, from climate change to computer science, Bowdoin faculty were tapped by the media for their expertise and insight along a broad range of topics over the past academic year.
Read moreWe are currently advertising for three positions in EOS:
Tenure Track, Assistant Professor in Surface Processes
(review of applications begins January 10, 2023) pdf
3 year, Visiting Assistant Professor in Solid Earth Processes
(review of applications begins February 10, 2023) pdf
Lab Instructor
(review of applications begins at the end of February, 2023) pdf
More information can be found on the Bowdoin Careers web page.
In our courses and research programs, we sample rocks, sediments, shells, and waters to reconstruct Earth’s geologic history, including past climates. We study Earth’s systems at all scales—atoms to oceans—and use state of the art instrumentation and data analysis to unravel Earth’s past so that we can better understand and prepare for our future.
EOS students learn the skills and knowledge to address questions such as: where will we secure fresh water to meet the needs of a growing global population? How will landslides triggered by more extreme storms affect populations? Do decreases in snowpack and glaciation in response to modern climate change impact volcanic hazards? How does natural resource extraction impact the Earth system?
From tracking how a harmful algal bloom develops along our coastline to learning how supervolcanoes form deep within the Earth, a degree in EOS opens up a world of possibilities.