EGCS Department Leadership
Department Head: Dr. Julie Brigham-Grette
EGCS Graduate Program Directors:
Geography Graduate Program Directors: Dr. Qian Yu and Dr. Eve Vogel
Geosciences Graduate Program Director: Dr. Isla Casteñeda
MS Geography-GIST Concentration Graduate Program Director: Dr. Forrest Bowlick
1-year MS Geosciences-Hydrogeology Concentration: Dr. David Boutt
EGCS Undergraduate Program Directors
Undergraduate Program Directors (UPDs) are a first point of contact for prospective students interested in learning more about pursuing the Geology, Geography, Earth Systems, or Environmental Science majors or Geology, Geography, and Climate Science minors, curriculum requirements, and potential career opportunities. Current majors should also contact UPDs about transfer credits, obtaining credit for study abroad courses, or for seeking approval for substituting non-standard courses for degree requirements. In addition to students’ individual faculty mentors, UPDs are available to discuss opportunities for undergraduate research, internships, and independent study; planning for careers or graduate school; and choosing among upper-level electives.
Geography UPD: Dr. Toby Applegate
Geology and Earth Systems (including the Climate Science Minor) UPD: Dr. Tim Cook
Environmental Sciences UPD: Dr. Steve Petsch
College of Natural Sciences Undergraduate Advising
All students with a primary or secondary major in the College of Natural Sciences receive professional advising through either a First Year Advisor (FYA) or Upper Level Advisor (ULA), depending on class year. The role of advisors is to provide students with support for meeting major, college, and gen-ed degree requirements; reviewing a student’s academic requirements report (ARR); creating an academic plan to stay on track for graduation; exploring and declaring Double majors/Dual Degrees/Minors; navigating campus resources; academic success and planning. depending on status. Students can identify their advisors through SPIRE, in the student center, or by logging into Navigate and looking under Your Success Team. Appointments are also booked through Navigate using the blue "Make an Appointment" button.
EGCS Faculty Mentors
Each undergraduate student in Geology, Geography, Earth Systems, and Environmental Science is assigned a faculty mentor. Faculty mentors are available to help students navigate the major and understand their post-graduation options and the steps necessary to achieve post-graduation goals, including: choosing among upper-level electives; identifying opportunities for summer research or internships; and planning for careers or graduate school. Students can identify their faculty mentors by logging into either SPIRE and looking under Student Center or Navigate and looking under Your Success Team.
EGCS Undergraduate Peer Mentors
Peer advisors are junior and senior year students in EGCS majors. Peer mentors are available to provide a student perspective on course selection, extracurricular activities, opportunities to join related clubs, and more. Peer mentors for Geology and Earth Systems and Climate Science can be reached by email at: @email. Peer mentors for Environmental Science can be reached via email at @email; on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/umassenvisci/. Environmental Science Peers Mentors also host a blog Environmental Science Undergraduates – The A to Z for Environmental Science Students \(umass\.edu\, and an advising webpage http://blogs.umass.edu/envisci/advising/.
College of Natural Sciences (CNS) Career Center
In addition to the advice available from the EGCS program directors and faculty mentors, the CNS Career Center is the place to go learn about job opportunities and how to search for careers; on-campus career fairs; resume, cover letter and social media development; and more.
Human Resources
Human Resources tasks and questions about post-docs, ad comp, IPO related issues for foreign graduate students and post-docs, personnel actions, Graduate TA & RA appointments, and hiring undergraduate students. @email
Payroll
Payroll for all department hourly employees’ questions. Time and Attendance Reporting. @email
Accounting
Purchase orders, invoice/bill payments other reimbursement and reallocations (excluding Travel and UMASS bank card reimbursement). Submit all reimbursement paperwork electronically. @email
Department IT support
IT support is provided through the campus ServiceNow portal.
Webpage and Social Media
For all department webpage and social media requests please e-mail Joe Kopera, department digital communications coordinator.