School of Earth, Environment and Sustainability

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Explore and study Earth

Connect yourself to Earth’s sciences: social, physical or natural.

Survey the past and present. Use technology to build, plan and aid public needs. 

Grow through expert faculty, field trips and engaging research.

Your field awaits.

Undergraduate programs

Select a major that matches your career goals.

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Major
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Certificates

Already have a major?

Consider adding a minor.

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Minors
Complement or strengthen your major with a touch of science.

Research and outreach

We can help you network, grow and discover.

Local wildflowers growing next to a waterway.
Protect and restore water quality in the region. Take part in projects and research.
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You’ve found something. What is it?
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Build experience for your future in planning. Help plan and develop community projects.

The SEES Fall 2026 seminar schedule

All SEES seminars are free and open to the public. The Monday seminars will be presented in Blunt Hall 313 and begin at 2:30 p.m. unless noted otherwise. The Fall 2026 presentations are still being finalized. Please check back for more information. Have a great summer!

September 14: Dr. Jackie Caplan-Auerbach will present: The Tracy Arm Landslide: Scientific and Personal Perspectives on the Second Largest Landslide Tsunami Ever Recorded

September 21: We welcome back Dr. Brooke Benz, Mo State Alumna - M.S. Geology 2020, B.S. Geology 2018 Brooke will be visiting us from Boulder, CO where she is a Petrographer to present: Making Volcanoes Safer

September 28: Dr. Robert Nairn, OSU, will present an update on the remidiation of Picher, Oklahoma

October 19: Dr. Rajiv Ghimire, Lecturer @ SEAS, University of Michigan where his foci is Climate + Energy, Food Systems and Cross-cutting

October 26: Dr. Kevin Mickus, Mo State Distinguished Professor - Geology will present: GeoPhysics at Yellowstone

November 9: Dr. Nishan Bhattarai, Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma

November 30: Marilyn K Vann, Cherokee Nation citizen - a discussion on current statutes, histories and advocacy efforts of Freedman of the Five Former Slaveholding Tribes

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