The Speaker's Program

Supported by generous donations, this programs brings speakers from around the world to the department. The Speaker's program offers the opportunity for a question and answer period after the presentation, as well as a chance to meet and socialize with your colleagues.

Brown Bag Lunches

Most Fridays, a group of graduate students gathers over brown bag lunches to hear a graduate student research presentation. In the past, these presentations have ranged from rehearsals for oral examinations to summaries of research to topics the presenter simply finds interesting. They represent an opportunity to bounce ideas around with a friendly audience, gather encouragement for your research topic, and find out what others are working on.

Earth and Planetary Science Graduate Student Association

The EPS Graduate Student Association is an informal graduate student organization that meets occasionally as a forum for graduate student concerns. Students frequently meet together to discuss and organize such activities as the Speaker's Program, student organized field trips, academic policies and procedures, curriculum, participation in departmental affairs, the annual Stanford soccer match, Santa Barbara's Day, departmental picnics, and other aspects of student life.

The Graduate Division

of the University maintains an excellent site for new graduate students. This site has a number of links useful to prospective students, as well. http://www.grad.berkeley.edu/new_students/index.shtml

Student-compiled Resources

Helpful Tips on filing a dissertation -- by Matthew d'Alessio (updated August 2004)

Departmental Laboratories

Affiliation	Description
Alvarez	Cathodluminescence laboratory, tectonics map laboratory
Banfield	Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Geomicrobiology laboratory
Bishop	Ocean biogeochemical processes lab
Brimhall	Heavy liquid separation, line counting microscope, moderate P-T experiments, photomicroscopy set-up, reflected and transmitted light Nikon microscopes. Atomic Absorption unit.
Bukowinski	Computer lab in mineral physics.
Carmichael	Wet chemistry, microprobe, controlled oxygen fugacity furnaces.
DePaolo	Isotope geochemistry, geochronology.
Dietrich	Splitters and sieves, drawing oven, digitizer, computer lab in geomorphology.
Dreger	Geophysics Computing Lab.
Fung	Computer lab in earth system modeling.
Helgeson	Computer lab in theoretical geochemistry.
Ingram	Geochemistry preparation laboratory, cold room for sediment core storage, stable isotope mass spectrometry lab, microscope and computer lab.
Jeanloz	Very high pressure diamond cell equipment, X-ray, spectrograph, infrared spectrometer, computer lab.
Kirchner	Cosmogenic nuclide sample preparation lab.
Manga	Fluid mechanics lab.
Renne	40Ar/39Ar geochronology, paleomagnetism.
Romanowicz	Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, Geophysics Computing Lab*.
Teague	"Student Lab," X-ray Fluorescence Laboratory*, Electron Microprobe Lab*, Scanning Electron Microscope Lab*, rock saws, polishing laps, thin sections, polished sections, spex mill*.
Wang	Moderate P-T stress-strain lab, electrical resistivity, computer lab in rock mechanics.
Wenk	X-ray powder diffraction, texture analysis by x-ray and electron diffraction (pole figure goniometer and EBSP), facilities for texture data processing and modeling, Digital petrographic microscope*.

* These labs require advance sign-up.