Department News
NEW - PhD Graduate Teaching Assistantships
$21,000 for the academic year plus Tuition Scholarships
Duties: Instructing labs or Intro Courses
Enrollment in 9 Graduate Credit Hours Required
Renewable for up to 5 years depending on Admission Status
Minimum Qualifications
- Unconditional admission into the Earth & Environmental Science PhD program starting fall of 2011.
- A B.S. or M.S. degree in environmental science, biology, chemistry, geoscience, mathematics, or engineering.
- A minimum GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale, as calculated by the Graduate School. Recent awardees had a GPA > 3.5
- Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores are considered in GTA decisions. Recent awardees had combined verbal and quantitative scores > 1200.
- An applicant whose native language is not English must demonstrate a sufficient level of speaking skill to teach.
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Click Here To Apply to the PhD Program
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UTA Team Competes in International Imperial Barrel Competition
April 20, 2010
The UTA team that received the first prize of $2000 at the Southwest Region Imperial Barrel Competition sponsored by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Left to right are faculty advisor John Wickham, and team members Elisha Hughes, Tim Ford, Brittany Meagher, Nick Guerrero, and Melinda Doss, all MS students in the department. Not shown is the faculty co-advisor Larry Standlee.
The team went to the International contest at the AAPG Annual Convention in New Orleans on April 9 and 10, but did not place in the top 3. Out of 12 teams, First Prize went to the French Team from the IFP Uniersity. The University of Calgary won 2nd place and King Faud University placed third. No US team placed in the event which included Colorado School of Mines, Oklahoma State University and West Virginia University.
Earth and Environmental Science Graduates
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
On December 14, 2009 the College of Science held their commencement for the fall semester in Texas Hall. The Earth and Environmental Science Department had five Master of Science in Geology graduates, five Master of Science in Environmental and Earth Science, one Master of Science in Environmental Science graduate, one Bachelor of Arts in Geology, and seven Bachelor of Science in Geology graduates. Read more...
Ph.D. Student Receives AGI Scholarship
Thurs November 19, 2009
 Ron Tingook, Geology Ph.D. student in the Department of Earth and Environmental
Science, has been awarded the American Geological Institute's Minority Scholarship for 2009-10 school year. The AGI Minority Participation Program (MPP) committee selects outstanding candidates each year and awards a dollar amount to the students in the fall. For more information regarding this scholarship, please see www.agiweb.org. Read more...
MS Student to Present Research at National GSA Meeting
Mon October 5, 2009
 Jesse Cope, Geology MS student in the Department of Earth and Environmental
Science, has been awarded for his poster on the sensitivity of Eocene ocean
circulation to Arctic freshwater pulses at a Geological Society of America section meeting in Dallas in Spring 2008. He has been invited to present his
research at the national GSA meeting in Portland. The research supervised by
Assistant Professor Winguth involves climate simulations performed at the
National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO, and is supported by the National Science Foundation.
BS in Environmental Science Approved by the Texas of Higher Education
MonSeptember 2, 2009
The new BS in Environmental and Earth Science is designed to prepare students for present and future environmental challenges. Coursework is split evenly between biology and geology, with a significant component of math and chemistry. Jobs in this growing field occur in local, state and federal government agencies as well as the private sector. Students will be able to become majors starting in October, when the degree plan will be posted and included in MyMav.
Three Professors Receive Grant
Mon August 31, 2009
Three assistant professors in the UT Arlington Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, along with colleagues at two other institutions, have just been awarded a $566,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change program. Almost $320,000 of the three-year grant has been awarded to UT Arlington. Drs. Harry Rowe, Arne Winguth, and Max Hu, all recent hires at UTA, are studying how the climate system in eastern North America evolved during the last eight glacial-interglacial cycles, which cover the last 600,000 years of Earth’s history. Read more...
NSF Grants Recieved
Mon August 31, 2009
Arne Winguth and Harry Rowe, assistant professors in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences in the College of Science, are co-principal investigators in a National Science Foundation grant of $114,000 awarded for a research project over four years entitled “Collaborative Research: Chemostratigraphic Analysis of Panthalassic and Tethyan Permian-Triassic Boundary Sections: Assessment of Global Paleoceanographic Dynamics”. Read more...
Dean College of Science
 Mon August 24, 2009
Dr. Pamela Jansma, the new Dean of the College of Science, is a Geologist who is also a new professor in the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences. We want to welcome her as the first UTA Dean who is a geologist, and also the first College of Science Dean who is a woman.
Dr. Jansma's research interests are in neo-tectonics. She specializes in Carribbean tectonics, monitoring surface deformation using special, high-accuracy global positioning receivers.
Dr. Andrew Hunt in the News
 Mon April 20, 2009 - CNN
Dr. Andrew Hunt, Asst Professor of Environmental health at the University of Texas at Arlington spoke in the news about the contamination of soil at New Orleans, Louisiana. Read more...
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College of Science Teaching Award - John Holbrook
 Citation by John Wickham
" I have known Dr. John Holbrook since 2004 when the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hired him for teaching and research in sedimentology. I first noticed his gift for teaching in the fall of 2005 when 90 students in two sections of a non-major introductory course gave him the highest ratings I had ever seen in that course. " Read more...
UTA Geology Alumni
"Mr. Chris Mazzini, President of Spindletop Oil & Gas Co., and UTA Geology
Alumniwas the Commencement Speaker at the UT Arlington College of ScienceGraduation Commencement Ceremony held at Texas Hall on the UTA campus on December 15, 2008. Mr. Mazzini encouraged the graduating students by telling them that their future is prospective and that they can accomplish their career and life goals with a good attitude and hard work. A reception was given after the commencement speech in honor for the UTA Geology alumni."
Arlington Archosaur Site
"The Arlington Archosaur Site, discovered in 2003 by UTA students, is unique in that it is a major dinosaur excavation in the middle of a large metropolitan setting and in that it preserves so many fossils from different animals."To learn more about Arlington Archosaur you can visit "The Arlington Archosaur Site"
GSA South Central Meeting
"UTA EES exhibits at the GSA South Central Meeting." To learn more visit "GSA South Central Meeting"
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