This is a networking and news page for alumni, students, faculty and friends of the University of Arizona Department of Geosciences. The Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona is ranked #3 in Geology, #7 in Earth Sciences, and #8 in Geophysics and Seismology in the most recent US News and World Report national survey of graduate programs. Our faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students are active in biogeochemistry; climate dynamics; geoarchaeology; geochemistry; geochronology; geomorphology; geophysics; mineral resources; mineralogy; paleolimnology; palynology; paleontology; petrology; sedimentology and stratigraphy; structure; and tectonics. We encourage interdisciplinary approaches to research in the geosciences, both within the department and through interdepartmental programs.