What a place to live!!: From Antarctica to the ocean reefs off South Africa to volcanos and deserts, EMS student researchers work in some extreme places
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Research isn't just for the laboratory
For both graduate and undergraduate students, studying in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State means studying the Earth and its dynamic systems hands-on, on location. If you are studying the flow of Antarctic ice sheets, you go there, install the instruments and gather the measurements. If you are studying the relationship between poverty and access to medical care in South Africa, you go there and collect the information first-hand. If you are studying the way people live in geologically active (think earthquakes and volcanos) areas like New Zealand, you go there.
Through the CAUSE (Center for the Advancement of Study and Experience) program, undergraduate students have the opportunity to participate in original research and to travel. Graduate students travel world-wide as part of their research programs.
