Earth and Planetary Sciences, PhD

About this programme

The department offers a range of fields of study covering Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences. In the past decade, the department has hired seven new assistant professors and two full professors spanning Planetary Sciences, Geosciences, and Environmental Science. What links all of these fields of research together is a focus on treating individual processes - ranging from the formation of rocks to the distribution of organisms - as part of a system, with implications for and feedbacks from other parts of the system. The description below provides a rough grouping of the research areas involved and the faculty associated with each one. Interested applicants are urged to consult individual group web sites for more detail as well as to view presentations made as part of the department’s 50th Anniversary celebration (https://eps.jhu.edu/events/). Prospective students should contact individual faculty members with whom they are interested in working. Students with interests that cross disciplinary boundaries or who use techniques found in different groups are strongly encouraged to apply as we believe that the most exciting questions to pursue in science today involve interdisciplinary research.