Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Minor
Cornell University
Description
This minor will prepare students to tackle some of the most pressing challenges of our time. Global warming, dwindling energy resources, inadequate water supplies, political strife over strategic minerals, and mega-disasters threatened by volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunami, and hurricanes: these are but a few of the headlines that appear with increasing frequency. Students develop the broad expertise needed to understand the interactions between the diverse elements of earth and life in the past, present, and future.