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Our goal is to understand, predict, and respond to human-caused and natural environmental change at local to global scales.

ESS Staff welcomes you for the 2016 -2017 school year.

September 20, 2016

Welcome Back!

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences

ESS Staff welcomes the Department for the 2016 -2017 school year.

Mark your calendars - ESS Welcome Back Orientation is Friday 9/30/16. More information to come.

Research Areas

Pacific climate pattern

Climate System Dynamics

Mother and child at water pump

Contaminant and Nutrient Cycling

Tree and horses in the mist

Geobiology

Geobiology & Paleontology

Family in a corn field

Human Environment Interactions

Satellite imagery of fields

Land Use Change

Ice flow

Ocean & Ecosystem Response

Field rows

Sustainable Food and Water

News

Stanford research shows how wave dynamics and water flows affect coral reefs

Stanford School of Engineering

Climate Change, Oceans

Glam Grads Q&A: Dana Chadwick on landscape biogeochemistry

Stanford Daily

woman walking in snow

Extreme-weather winters are becoming more common in U.S., Stanford research shows

Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

Climate Change, Natural Hazards

Upcoming Events

ESS Wed Seminar: The Most Rational People in the World by Professor James Holland Jones, Stanford University

September 28, 2016 - 12:30pm

Y2E2 Building, Room 111

ESS Welcome Event

September 30, 2016 - 3:00pm

2nd Floor Y2E2 Terrace

ESS Welcome Event

September 30, 2016 - 3:00pm

2nd Floor Y2E2 Terrace