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ENV-GEOS - Environmental Sciences, Geosciences Concentration, Ph.D.

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Environmental Sciences, Geosciences Concentration, Ph.D.

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Interdisciplinary Studies

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Geosciences has many connections with Environmental Sciences, including study areas of climate change, depletion of sand, soils, and other terrestrial resources, hydrology and groundwater contamination, fracking and other oil/gas/coal exploration, geographic patterns in land use, geospatial analyses and remote sensing, just to name a few. Tennessee Tech has existing laboratory space to provide a venue for dissertation research projects in environmental geology, geography, and related earth sciences topic areas. 

The general requirements for the Ph.D. degree in Environmental Sciences are:

  • Concentration Core Coursework: 13 hours

  • Research and Dissertation Requirement: 18 hours

  • Advisor Guided Concentration Coursework: 30 hours

  • Total Degree Requirement: 61 hours