About the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences 

Established in 1966, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (DEES) at Kuwait University started as the Geology Department by offering BSc and MSc degrees in geology. In keeping up with the developments in the field and the expansion of the subfields in Environmental Sciences and Sustainability, the department took the shape that it is in today in 1999. The programs offered by the department expanded to offer more interdisciplinary degrees such as Environmental Sciences, Petroleum Geosciences, and Desert Science. 

The DEES provides education in theoretical and applied aspects of Earth science and its environments at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Students graduating from DEES can expect to have wide employment opportunities in oil/gas sectors, hydrology and environmental management sectors, sustainable energy, agricultural and educational sectors, forensic and medical geoscience sectors, and in academic pursuits. 

The academic staff and graduate students conduct international standard research in global and regional issues. Master studies are offered in mineralogy, petrology, paleontology, tectonics, geochemistry, tectonics and geophysics, as well as groundwater studies and environmental topics in land degradation, coastal and marine pollution, and Remote Sensing. The DEES is well equipped with state-of-the-art facilities in GIS, Remote Sensing, Electron Microscopy, Cathodoluminescence, Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, XRF and XRD instrumentation. In addition the DEES, has access to the Faculty’s Nanoscopy Center and its facilities. 

The DEES has a vision of an academic environment in which we imbue excellence in teaching and research to meet the dynamically changing resource demands and environmental challenges of the 21st Century.