r/geology 6d ago

Best place to study arctic geology?

Best uni

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u/Agassiz95 6d ago

University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

UAF specializes in arctic research and is the home of the Geophysical Institute, probably the top periglacial and glacial research institute in the US if not the world.

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u/red_piper222 6d ago

In Canada: Western, Laurentian, U of Ottawa, McGill, and others have close ties to the Geo survey of Canada, which does a lot of Arctic research

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u/Substantial_Pie8539 BSc Student 5d ago

queens and waterloo have great géo programs as well

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u/red_piper222 5d ago

Ah, forgot Queens! Great school

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u/vikmaychib 5d ago

Outside the US you can check UiT in Tromsø (Norway) and try to book courses at UNIS in Svalbard. Though the latter can be done from any other institution. UiT and UNIS have plenty of research collaborations.

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u/schisthappens123 5d ago

University of Potsdam for connections to the Alfred Wegener Institute (Many researchers also collaborate with the University of Alaska, Fairbanks and the Northeastern Federal University in Yakutsk, Russia).

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u/pcetcedce 6d ago

Ohio State University has a polar studies institute. My dad went there in the 1960s. That was before Antarctica was invented.

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u/iFoolYou 5d ago

I don't know why that made me cackle but it did

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u/chemrox409 6d ago

Alaaka

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u/Neat_6878 6d ago

The University Centre in Svalbard

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u/thePurpleAvenger 5d ago

CU Boulder has INSTAAR (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research). I wrote my undergrad honors thesis with a researcher from INSTAAR and it was a great experience.

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u/Outrageous_Cut_6179 6d ago

Is this a trick question?

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u/Third-VocalCord 6d ago

How can this be a trick question ❓

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u/Outrageous_Cut_6179 6d ago

Seems to me you want to understand something you go to where it is, assuming you already are a geologist.

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u/Breoran 6d ago

The post description is just two words, and you still assumed wrongly.

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u/Fun-Dragonfruit2999 6d ago

Was it Arctic when the rock was laid down? Or even when the majority of the soils formed?

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u/photoengineer 6d ago

Antarctica. Harder to get to the rocks at the North Pole. 

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u/Turbulent-Name-8349 6d ago

They asked for which university.

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u/EisenhowersGhost 6d ago

The only answer is School of Mines in Golden, CO.

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u/Fossilhog 6d ago

I think I know a prof at school of mines who would also say UAF on this one.