MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — First-year Department of Geosciences Chair Todd Moore discusses cutting-edge technology and how students and faculty are engaging in hands-on research in the study of Earth in the April edition of “Out of the Blue,” Middle Tennessee State University’s television magazine show.
Moore talks about the program, one of 11 College of Basic and Applied Sciences departments, with “Out of the Blue” host Andrew Oppmann, MTSU vice president of Marketing and Communications.
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Hired last summer to start the 2024-25 academic year in August, Moore touched on the three primary specialization areas — environmental science, geology and geospatial science — popular with current students, but also an interest to future students.
“Environmental science introduces students to our key resource areas — soil, water, minerals, the ocean, ecosystems — here on earth,” Moore said. “Once they (graduate and) leave our program, they will be prepared for jobs as environmental consultants and remediation. They can even work in the social aspects with environmental policy or some of the social dimensions of environmental science and environmental problems we have nowadays.”
Moore said the geology program emphasizes the solid earth, where “students will be prepared to become geologists, whether in the energy, transportation or mineral sectors. They can be environmental consultants as well.”
The department leader said geospatial science “is really the tech-heavy” side of things.
“Think about geographic information systems, satellite imagery analysis, remote sensing and ground-penetrating radar,” Moore said. “Those students are prepared for a wealth of jobs, not only in geosciences, but in urban planning, transportation and other sectors we have.”
Moore said faculty members are “working with the School of Agriculture, trying to figure out how to optimize agricultural yield while preserving water quality and soil erosion; faculty mapping and analyzing and studying the risk of sinkholes and caves in the area; faculty looking at recharge, so how water works its way back down to the region’s aquifer systems, which are critical for agricultural practices and area farmers; faculty studying severe weather, like extreme heat and tornados … and faculty engaging undergraduates and graduate students with cutting-edge research.”
To learn more, visit https://geosciences.mtsu.edu.
“Out of the Blue” is available anytime on the university’s YouTube channel, the True Blue TV channel, Roku, Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV. It also airs on Murfreesboro cable Channel 9 daily at 6 and 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.; NewsChannel5+ at 6:30 p.m. Sundays; via streaming on MTSU’s Jazz Network on WMOT HD2 and through WMOT.org at 7 a.m. on the first Sunday of each month; and on other cable outlets in Middle Tennessee, so check local listings.
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Watch previous episodes of “Out of the Blue” at https://mtsunews.com/out-of-the-blue.
— Randy Weiler (Randy.Weiler@mtsu.edu)
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