Department of Geology and Geological Engineering
The Colorado School of Mines Department of Geology and Geological Engineering is one of the premier applied geoscience programs in the world.
Welcome
Dr. M. Stephen Enders, Department Head
Cutting-Edge Research
Our faculty, staff and students work in a number of areas important to earth, environment and engineering, ranging from minerals and energy exploration, to ice sheet dynamics, to natural hazards, and water quantity and quality.
An Outstanding Education
We take education seriously, and have excellent teaching facilities, world class laboratory facilities, and access to some of the best field sites in the world.
Serving Society
Geology is important to many areas important to humanity, from hazards to water resources to changing climate. We are training outstanding students to be stewards of our earth’s natural resources.
News
- New research center to focus on subsurface resource models
Colorado School of Mines and Virginia Tech have been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation to set up a new research center focusing on advanced subsurface earth resource modeling. M … - Food-energy-water nexus focus of NSF-NSF China project
A Colorado School of Mines professor is leading an international research effort to strengthen understanding of the tradeoffs between food, energy and water in agricultural basins. Reed Maxwell, Rowli … - Navarre-Sitchler receives DOE funds for rock weathering work
It’s a discrepancy that has dogged geochemists for years – when researchers bring rocks back to the lab and measure how quickly they dissolve, the numbers don’t match what they can see happening in th … - Mines hosts hands-on science experience for high schoolers
Take a slice of the Earth’s surface and it might look a little like the tabletop sand tanks that a group of local high school students experimented with during a visit to Colorado School of Mines. Cl …