Department of Earth Sciences

Want to work at AccuWeather or the Wyoming Dinosaur Center? Prefer to land in a top graduate program? We’ll prepare you for whatever future you envision.

Protect our planet’s future. Study the complex interaction of the Earth’s systems from the rocks to the clouds.

Hutton poses inside a NASA aircraft as part of summer internship program

Flying with NASA

Patricia Hutton spent her summer internship collecting data while aboard a NASA aircraft.

Read the storyFlying with NASA

Capstone Project

Students conclude their Brockport experience by working one-on-one with a professor to complete a capstone project. It could consist of a research project, an internship, or other extracurricular activity. The finished product becomes a selling point to future employers or graduate school advisors.

Internships

We prepare our students to land internships that will set them up for professional success. Meteorology internships will only consider students who have completed their synoptic meteorology sequence. That’s offered in the third year of most programs. We offer it in year two.

Blend of Theory & Practice

Sciences require knowledge-based training. Employers require specific field skills. Our programs offer the perfect mix of both. You’ll learn theory inside the classroom. And then we’ll give you opportunities to put that theory into practice.