Graduate Student Opportunities

Attention Undergraduate Geology, Physics, Computer Science, and Engineering Majors:

Are interested in applying your knowledge of physics, computers or engineering to figuring out how the geological world around you works? There may be opportunties for you in the Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences at Duke University to investigate the physical behavior of natural systems such as rivers, sand dunes, beaches and other elements of the natural landscape. These studies involve computer simulation, computer graphics, and the development of nonlinear models such as cellular automata. If you would like to spend time out in the field looking at how nature actually works, as well as developing an intellectual framework for understanding dynamical features of the earth's surface, contact P. K. Haff, Brad Murray or Lincoln Pratson. You don't need to know any geology at this point. But you do have to be interested in finding out how earth processes work, and discovering why natural terrain looks the way it does.