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Select a Research Topic: Earth Science & Astronomy

Suggested research topics for each academic discipline.

Earth Science

  • Acid rain
  • Air pollution
  • Algae bloom
  • Alternative fuels
  • Beach erosion
  • Biofouling
  • Biogeoscience
  • Carbon footprint
  • Climate change
  • Climate forcing
  • Coral reefs
  • Crysopheric science
  • Dismal Swamp
  • Drought
  • Earth-sheltered structures
  • Economic geology
  • Ecotourism
  • Fertilizers
  • Flint water crisis
  • Geochemistry
  • GIS technology
  • Green cities
  • Hurricanes 
  • Limnology
  • Magnetism
  • Mineral physics
  • Natural resource conservation
  • Nitrogen farming
  • Oceans
  • Oil spills
  • Organic farming
  • Ozone depletion
  • Pesticides
  • Pollution reduction
  • Radioactive waste
  • Rip currents
  • Seismology
  • Soil contamination
  • Sustainable design
  • Tectonics
  • Three Gorges Dam
  • Tiny houses
  • Toxic dumping in oceans
  • Tsunami
  • Water conservation
  • Water pollution

Astronomy

  • Asteroids
  • Astrobiology
  • Astrophysics
  • Auroras
  • Big Bang theory
  • Black holes
  • Comets
  • Curiosity Rover
  • Dark matter
  • Dwarf galaxies
  • Energy
  • Expolanet
  • Galaxy
  • Galaxy clusters
  • Galaxy formation
  • Gamma-ray astronomy
  • Gravity
  • Gravitational lens
  • Gravitational waves
  • Hubble telescope
  • Kepler telescope
  • Mars water
  • Milky Way
  • Philae probe
  • Pluto
  • Quasars
  • Radio astronomy
  • Remote sensing
  • Sagan effect
  • Scientific visualization
  • Solar physics
  • Stellar spectra
  • Sunspots
  • Superclusters
  • Supernova