Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences: Introduction

Faculty Affiliation

Arts and Science

Degree Programs

Earth Sciences

MASc, MSc, and PhD

Collaborative Specializations

The following collaborative specialization is available to students in participating degree programs as listed below:

Overview

The Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Toronto has a venerable 165-year tradition of research and education in the geosciences. Rankings place U of T at the very top in the geosciences in Canada and among the very best institutions globally. The Department of Earth Sciences is internationally regarded for research in fundamental geoscience, having given rise to major advances in ore deposits geology, geophysics, Precambrian geology, marine geology, Quaternary geology, and sedimentary basin analysis and more recently, carbon cycling, environmental geochemistry, and paleoecology.

Current education in Earth Sciences at the University of Toronto continues the tradition of excellence. Students have access to a wide range of state-of-the-art laboratories and expert knowledge fostering cutting-edge research in almost all areas of Earth Sciences.

Contact and Address

Web: www.es.utoronto.ca
Email: grad@es.utoronto.ca
Telephone: (416) 978-1240
Fax: (416) 978-3938

Department of Earth Sciences
University of Toronto
Earth Sciences Centre
Room 1066, 22 Ursula Franklin Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3B1
Canada

Earth Sciences: Graduate Faculty

Full Members

Anderson, Melissa - BSc, MSc, PhD
Bailey, Richard - BSc, PhD
Bergquist, Bridget - BS, PhD
Bollmann, Jorg - DrRerNat
Chu, Xu - BSc, MPH, PhD
Cowling, Sharon - BSc, MSc, PhD
Desloges, Joseph - BES, MSc, PhD
Diamond, Miriam - MSc, MSc, PhD
Dittrich, Maria - BES, MSc, PhD
Eyles, Nicholas - BSc, MSc, DSc, PhD
Ferris, Grant - BSc, PhD
Finkelstein, Sarah - AB, MPH, PhD (Chair and Graduate Chair)
Gorton, Michael - BSc, BSc, PhD
Gregory, Daniel - BSc, PhD
Halfar, Jochen - PhD
Hamilton, Michael - BSc, PhD
Head, Martin - BSc
Henderson, Grant - PhD
Heron, Philip Joseph - BSc, MSc, PhD
Howard, Ken - BSc, MSc, PhD
Laflamme, Marc - BS, PhD
Liu, Qinya - BSc, PhD
Lui, Semechah - BS, MS, PhD
Miall, Andrew - BSc, PhD
Pysklywec, Russell - BSc, MSc, PhD
Schoenbohm, Lindsay - PhD
Schulze, Daniel - PhD
Sherwood Lollar, Barbara - PhD
Simpson, Myrna - BS, DPhil
Sio, Corliss Kin I. - BS, PhD
Spooner, Edward - BA, PhD
Swidinsky, Andrei - BSc, MSc, PhD (Associate Chair, Graduate)
Tait, Kimberly - BSc, MSc, PhD
Wells, Mathew - BS, DPhil
Wortmann, Ulrich - BSc, MSc, PhD

Members Emeriti

Milkereit, Bernd - DrRerNat
Westgate, John - PhD

Associate Members

Bank, Carl-Georg - MSc, PhD
Jantunen, Liisa - PhD
Kamo, Sandra - BSc, PhD
Williams, Branwen - PhD
Xu, Xiaoyong - BSc, MSc, PhD

Earth Sciences: Earth Sciences MASc, MSc, PhD Courses

Check with the department for the current year's offerings.

Course CodeCourse Title
Graduate Core Course
Mineral Deposits
ESS1425HAdvanced Methods in Geosciences
Paleoecological Assessment of Environmental Change
Advanced Structure
Global Tectonics
Paleoenvironmental Studies
Tectonics and Planetary Dynamics
Mineral Resources
Earth Systems Evolution
Geochemistry
Advanced Glacial Sedimentology
Isotope Geochemistry
ESS3000HDirected Studies in Earth Sciences
ESS3000YDirected Studies in Earth Sciences
Research Presentation
Research Project
Selected Topics in Geology
Selected Topics in Geochemistry
ESS3606HSelected Topics Earth System Evolution
Selected Topics in Geodynamics
All-Course Research Project
Geophysical Imaging: Non-seismic Methods
Seismology
Advanced Seismology

Additional courses related to geophysics can be found in the SGS Calendar entry for the Department of Physics.