We rely on and draw upon the core sciences of chemistry, physics, biology, and mathematics. In so doing, we explore climate change, meteorology, and oceanography; environmental science, geochemistry, and natural resources including global energy supply; paleontology, evolutionary theory, and the history of life on Earth; plate tectonics, earthquakes and volcanoes; and the past, present and future of other planetary bodies in our solar system.

We explore the interaction of chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics and geology in the ongoing effort to explore Earth’s interior, atmosphere and oceans; to understand the environment in which we live, the causes for global climate change, and the history of life and climate on Earth; and to decipher the formation, history, and current state of other planets, satellites, and meteorites.