Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences

Already decided on a major? Adding Geology or Meteorology as an additional major will further enhance your career path. Check out our department’s 4-year course plans for combining the Geology degree or Meteorology degree with Engineering, Environmental Science, and Biology.

Commitment to quality teaching

Our department is committed to maintaining a supportive environmental that ensures the learning and success of all students.

• We ascribe to the Principles of Community at Iowa State, specifically highlighting richness of diversity, respect, and freedom from discrimination.
• Since 2000, nine of our faculty have been recognized one or more times with college or university-wide teaching awards.
• Our Earth, Wind, and Fire Learning Community helps students build strong connections with their peers, as do our active student clubs.
• Our American Meteorological Society student chapter has won the Student Chapter of the Year Award five times and frequently receives Honor Roll status.
• Our summer geology field camp in northwestern Wyoming has a long and outstanding tradition of experiential learning.

Land acknowledgement

Iowa State University is located on the ancestral lands and territory of the Baxoje (bah-kho-dzhe), or Ioway Nation. The United States obtained the land from the Meskwaki and Sauk nations in the Treaty of 1842. We wish to recognize our obligations to this land and to the people who took care of it, as well as to the 17,000 Native people who live in Iowa today.