The earth science program is a four year program
offered at Penn State DuBois.
You are going to study mostly mineralogy,
some water shed chemistry, geo physics, basically
everything you need to know about the processes
and what’s going on in the earth.
We got to go on field trips and look at the
different rock formations and minerals.
There are a lot of labs involved, because
it is Earth Science, and very hands on…we
can drive twenty minutes and have our labs
outside.
We have a professor who studies earthquakes,
a Seismologist, we have another professor
who studies meteorites, like I want to do.
She also has a NASA grant to study carbonaceous
chondrites.
Many students want to get into the Marcellus
Shall, the gas drilling.
I want to go test soil and water samples,
and then come in and analyze them…that would
be my dream job.
Penn State DuBois has prepared me for that.
Earth Science is a really interesting program,
and it is really cool to understand and to
explain to others how natural processes on
the earth, that we take for granted, really
happen!
