GEOSCIENTISTS STUDY:
- Earth as a complex system and the interconnectedness of atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and geosphere.
- Atmospheric processes, systems interactions and climate and the various time scales of interconnected systems processes and impacts.
- Surface processes and their connection to sustaining life, environmental impacts and natural and human-induced hazards.
- Hydrogeology and water science and the chemical and mechanical processes involved in the Water Cycle and water as a critical resource.
- Earth materials and the processes of the Rock Cycle, origin and distribution, critical resources extraction and use, context of a sustainable society.
- Earth structure and the plate tectonic and deformation processes, formation, and the resultant geological structures and natural hazards.
- Deep time and the scale and magnitude, the impact on geologic processes, geological and biological events in the geologic record.
- Geo-health and geo-hazards and the relationships between human health and geologic processes and materials, and potential health hazards through air, food, water, or soil.
- Geo-context and the context of the colonial history of geosciences, systemic racism, and reliance on hegemonic ways of knowing.