Research Facilities
The primary College of Science and Technology research facilities on Main Campus are housed in
- the Biology-Life Sciences Building for the Biology Department;
- Beury Hall for the Chemistry and Earth and Environmental Science departments; and
- the Science, Education and Research Center (SERC), CST’s most advanced facility completed in 2014, for portions of the Biology and Chemistry departments, as well as the Computer and Information Sciences and Physics departments.
The instrumentation housed in the Biology-Life Sciences Building, Beury Hall and SERC is available for use by graduate or postdoctoral researchers and is subject to proper training and supervision by faculty.
Learn more about research in the College of Science and Technology.
Earth and Environmental Science Department Facilities
Faculty and student research is supported by cutting-edge analytical instruments, including the following, among others.
- Water quality loggers
- Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)
- Ground-penetrating radar and electrical resistivity tomography
- Ground-based LIDAR surveying equipment
- Mass spectrometry (including ICP-OES)
- Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
- X-ray diffraction and X-ray fluorescence
Students also have access to networked computers, printers and workstations.
Learn more about the College of Science and Technology research institutes and centers.
Faculty Research Specialties
Faculty research includes the following fields.
- Coastal dynamics and geomorphology
- Ecohydrology and land-use change
- Energy
- Environmental geochemistry
- Environmental geophysics and remote sensing
- hazards
- Hydrogeology and groundwater contamination
- Low-temperature geochemistry
- Materials and mineralogy
- Nanomaterials
- Paleontology and fossil provenance
- Planetary geology
- Polar geophysics and glaciology
- Precambrian geology
- Sedimentology and stratigraphy
- Soils
- Structural geology
- Urban hydrology
Carnegie Classification
The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education lists Temple University as an R1 institution for “highest research activity,” placing it among the top 4% of all four-year institutions in the United States.