The Earth is our environment — the ultimate source of our air, water, food, minerals, energy, and other resources — all that sustains the world.

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMs

Get your UBC degree in earth & environmental sciences, freshwater science, geography, or sustainability. Go on to graduate studies or one of the many careers possible in earth and environmental sciences.

Undergraduate

FEATURED STUDENT

Uncovering Links

Master’s student Rebekah Ferguson researches the effects of wildfires on the black huckleberry — a key cultural and food plant for Indigenous communities.

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Rebekah Ferguson

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UBC Okanagan Graduate Student in Research Lab

GRADUATE PROGRAM

Our graduate programs offer research-based degrees to students in a collegial, close-knit setting. Our high-calibre graduate students dedicate themselves to bettering our world through research.

Graduate

RESEARCH

We seek to positively impact global society through research and training in earth, environmental and geographic sciences in areas that include water resources, mineral exploration, tectonics, natural hazards, global change and sustainability.

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