EAS Facts
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The Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences is dedicated to the scientific study of the physical, chemical, and dynamical processes that range from such seemingly diverse events as continental drift to tornadoes. Our department is a multidisciplinary department of the School of Science, requiring the use of mathematics, physics, chemistry, statistics, and computer sciences to research problems; along with state of the art computer and laboratory facilities for calculation, visualization, and experimentation.
The mission of the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences is to serve the citizens of Indiana, the United States, and the world through discovery that expands the realm of knowledge in basic and applied Earth, atmospheric and interdisciplinary sciences, learning through education and the dissemination of scientific knowledge, and engagement through the exchange of scientific skills and understanding.
Since 1988, the department has occupied a portion of the six-story addition to the Civil Engineering Building. EAS occupies limited space on the ground floor, all of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors, and a rooftop observatory with access to rooftop instrumentation platforms. In total, EAS has 45,806 square feet in the building divided into research labs 48%), teaching facilities (14%), and support operations (38%). In the Physics Building, 2891 square feet of space was retained for the EAS Antarctic Research Facility Additionally, the department operates the Cherry Lane Meteorological Field Station on the west end of campus, which consists of a 294 square foot building on 3.1 acres that provides support for both teaching and research.
The EAS library (http://www.lib.purdue.edu/eas/) is located in the Civil Engineering Building and contains 36,336 monographs and bound journal volumes, 204,272 maps, and an aerial photograph collection. The collections and services of the EAS Library are available to the entire university community, though this library primarily supports the research and instructional activities of the Department of the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences' faculty, students, and staff.
Degrees Offered
- EAS Undergraduate Programs
- Bachelor of Science
- Minor
- EAS Graduate Program
- Master of Science
- Doctor of Philosphy
- Areas of Research
Facilities
Our research and teaching facilities occupy over 4400 square meters (41,000 sq. ft.) on four floors of the 1988 addition to the Civil Engineering building. The EAS library contains 30,000 volumes, 200,000 maps, and an aerial photograph collection.
- EAS Research Facilities:
- State-of-the-art automated electron microprobe
- Atomic absorption spectrophotometer, ion chromatograph, gamma ray spectrometer, equipment for high-temperature experimental petrology, X-ray crystallography, and microscopy
- Stable-isotope laboratory, gas-source isotope ratio mass spectrometer
- Magnetometers, gravimeters, and seismographs
- Fluid inclusion facility
- Complete wet-chemical lab for analysis
- A network of surface water monitors/samplers
- UNIX based Computing Laboratory (WXP Lab)
- Acoustic and seismic imaging systems
- Molecular biogeochemistry laboratory
- Dual frequency Global Positioning System receivers
- The EAS library
- EAS Departmental Computing
- PRIME lab
