Why EARTH SCIENCES at St.FX?
There are a lot of reasons:
Love the outdoors? Interested in the natural resource sector, environmental research, monitoring, assessment, and climate science?
Explore our ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
The department has two core streams including Geoscience, and Environmental Geoscience. Geoscience of either flavour is a hands-on science involving the outdoors, and leading to a wide array of job opportunities. For interested students, both can lead to accreditation as a Professional Geoscientist. We also offer joint programs in collaboration with other departments.
Example courses: Earth History, Structural Geology, Crystal Chemistry and Mineralogy, Paleontology: The History of Life, Genesis of Igneous Rocks, Field Geology
Typical careers: Most geoscience graduates go on to work in the resource sector (mining or petroleum), for either industry or government. For students doing directly into the workforce post-graduation, the employment rate for our graduates is near 100%. Many have also done gone on to Master’s and or Doctoral degrees. Some of those are involved in teaching geoscience at universities around the world.
Example courses: Global change and the climate system, Sedimentology, Geochemistry of Natural Waters, Hydrology, Oceanography, Hydrogeology, Environmental Earth Science Field Course
Typical careers: Environmental consulting, rehabilitation and monitoring, climate change research, alternative energy, environmental impact assessment, computer modeling of environmental systems, environmental scientist, government policymaker, teacher, graduate studies, arctic research.

As described in the calendar, we offer options in environmental science, geochemistry, and joint programs with aquatic resources, biology, business administration, chemistry, mathematics, statistics and computer science, and physics. In addition, science students at StFX are now allowed to combine a minor with any major, and we have many specialty courses suitable for minoring in earth science that are accessible without a large number of prerequisites.
Study at one of the BEST UNIVERSITIES in Canada
As one of the most research-intensive departments on campus, you will have abundant opportunity to work one-on-one with professors on cutting edge research projects that are regional, national, and international in scope.
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Department of EARTH SCIENCES.
Phone: (902) 867-5109
Fax: (902) 867-2414
Email Us: igreen@stfx.ca
COURIER ADDRESS:
5009 Chapel Square
Physical Sciences Centre, Room 2052
Antigonish, Nova Scotia
Canada, B2G 2W5