Studying hazards as a geophysicist bridges the intersection between the natural sciences, geotechnical engineering, and humanitarian efforts. You can study landslide mitigation, early warning earthquake detection, unexploded ordinance location, and much more. You learn to model Earth’s complex systems using a variety of techniques from satellites to drones to ground-based instruments. The models you produce inform proper land use and emergency response planning decisions resulting from a natural disaster. In this field of study, there are plenty of opportunities to go into the field and the skills you learn can be applied to the mining, geotechnical, civil, and environmental engineering world.