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| Established | 1896 |
| Dean: | William E. Easterling |
| Location | University Park, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Campus: | Suburban |
| Website: | www.ems.psu.edu |
The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences is a constituent semi-autonomous part Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania. The College was founded in 1896 as a School of Mines, and over time diversified and became the current college offering studies in Earth Science. The college has five departments: Energy and Mineral Engineering, Geography, Geosciences, Materials Science and Engineering, and Meteorology. [1]. The College also includes The Alliance for Earth Science, Engineering, and Development in Africa (AESEDA), The Energy Institute, The Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI), The John A. Dutton e-Education Institute, and the Peter R. Gould Center for Geography and Outreach. It is currently the smallest college (in regards to students) at the University Park campus.
Rankings
The Department of Geography was ranked number one in the United States in 1995, by The National Research Council (NRC). The U.S. News Best Graduate Schools 2007 ranked the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' Meteorology graduate program number one in the US.
Alumni
- Raymond Ban - Weather Channel [2]
- Dr. Greg Forbes - Weather Channel Severe Weather Expert
- Elliot Abrams - Accuweather
- Charles H. Bowman - President Gulf Oil products and Chairman and CEO BP America [3]
- Thomas J. Casadevall - deputy director United States Geological Survey
- Jay Hammond - Governor of Alaska
- Joel N. Myers - Founder of Accuweather
- Dr. Jon Nese - Weather Channel
