Central Washington University offers a Masters program in Geological Sciences that aims to prepare students for professional employment in geoscience careers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond or for continuing graduate studies at the doctoral level. We specialize in active and regional tectonics, structural geology, and geodynamics; climate change, paleoflood studies, and environmental geochemistry; geochronology, petrology, and volcanology; and seismic risk and GPS geodesy.
This program normally leads to employment in consulting firms; in local, state, or federal government resource-based or planning agencies; in teaching at community colleges or at a secondary level; and to serve as a foundation for graduate studies beyond the M.S. level. It is also good high-level technical background for those interested in following related careers, such as environmental law, natural resource management, or teaching at the secondary level. The Department encourages an integrative, multi-disciplinary approach.
This collection features theses from Master of Science Students in the Department of Geological Sciences Graduate Program at Central Washington University.
Theses from 2001
A small look at the big picture: linking geopotential height anomalies to paleofloods on the Snake River, Idaho and Oregon, Gwendolyn Bernitha Rhodes
Theses from 1998
Factors Contributing to Landslide Activity in the Winter of 1995-96, Clearwater County Near Orofino, Idaho, Aaron Paul Wisher