With a new design, we are sure you will want to keep up with what's been happening in the Department over the last year.

We are pleased to announce the appointments of Robin Matoza and Roberta Rudnick to our faculty.

Tanya Atwater was today awarded GSA's Structural Geology & Tectonics Division Career Contribution Award

Matthew Jackson has been named as a recipient of the MacElwane Medal

Professor David Valentine's crew has returned from its June expedition aboard

Jim Boles has found evidence of helium leakage from the Earth’s mantle

The Department of Earth Science at the University of California at Santa Barbara seeks a motivated, skilled and creative individual to support a range of electron- and ion-beam instruments, x-ray detection systems, high vacuum systems, high voltage systems, and electronic signals/communications

John Crowell, member of the National Academy of Sciences and a professor in Earth Science at UCSB from 1967 until his retirement, passed away on May 13, 2015

David Valentine's article, "5 key things we learned about oil spills from the Gulf Coast disaster," appeared in the April 23, 2015 PBS NewsHour.

Applications are invited for possible temporary Lecturer appointments (part-time) during the 2015-16 academic year in the following areas:  Earth Systems, Biogeology, Geochemistry, Geology, and Geophysics.