Play with
the planet.
Earth science makes more sense when you can do something with it. Explore deep time, change the climate system, investigate earthquakes, build a volcanic eruption, sort sediment, make a stratigraphic record, deform rocks, test flood resilience and put Pangaea back together through free interactive STEM experiences.
What do you want
to mess with?
Each free interactive experiment focuses on a different part of Earth science and related mathematics — from geology and climate science to seismology, volcanology, sedimentology, stratigraphy, structural geology, hydrology, plate tectonics and fractals. No science background required. Curiosity helps.
Your Birth in Deep Time
Compress Earth’s entire 4.6-billion-year history into one calendar year, enter your birthday and discover what the planet was like on your day in deep time.
The Climate Machine
Change Earth’s orbit, CO₂, vegetation and clouds, trigger volcanic aerosols, then give the climate system time to respond. Can you create an Ice Age?
Earthquake Detective
Read P and S waves from three seismic stations, convert their arrival-time gaps into distance and use triangulation to find the hidden earthquake epicenter.
Earthquake Now
Explore earthquakes happening around the world using live USGS data. Reveal plate boundaries, investigate individual events and discover why earthquake locations are patterned rather than random.
Volcano Lab
Build a magma, change its silica, gas, temperature, crystals and conduit conditions, then press Erupt and discover what kind of volcanic behaviour you created.
Sediment Sorter
Build a sediment mix, change river flow and channel slope, then release the grains and watch gravel, sand, silt and clay take different journeys through the flume.
Strata Maker
Change global sea level, move the basin and vary sediment supply one interval at a time. Watch shorelines migrate, erosion remove part of the record and a stratigraphic sequence build through time.
Put Pangaea Back Together
Drag and rotate the continents to rebuild the ancient supercontinent. Use matching fossils, geological belts and glacial clues to test where the pieces belong.
Flood Resilience Lab
Change rainfall, storm duration, soil saturation and land cover, then test how woodland, green space, storage and river changes alter runoff, peak flow and flood risk.
Structural Geology Lab
Compress, extend or shear a rock package. Change depth, stress, loading time and rock properties, then compare the resulting folds and faults in cross section and map view.
Coastline Paradox
Measure the same coastline with different ruler lengths and discover why smaller rulers usually produce a longer answer. Plot the results and estimate a fractal dimension.
Less textbook.
More planet.
The Lab is where Dig Earth Studio turns Earth-science ideas into things you can actually interact with.
These are simplified teaching models, not professional scientific software. Their job is to make the important relationships visible without burying them under every complication the real planet can throw at us.