Environmental Science

Degrees and Certificates

Classes

GEV 7001 : Research Experience

Research experience in conjunction with a faculty member. Restricted to: Masters in Environmental Science; Permission of Instructor required.

Credits

0

GEV 7100 : Remote Sensing-Env Analysis

Basics of remote sensing, sensor characteristics, and remote sensing applications in support of graduate research. Emphasis on image/data acquisition and analysis.

Credits

3

GEV 7101 : Land Use & Env Assessment

Legal and environmental management for the regulation of private and public lands. Zoning, environmental legislation, urban renewal, eminent domain, and the law of nuisance. Cannot be taken if student has already taken GEV 3570.

Credits

3

GEV 7102 : Sustainable Env Systems

Sustainable management and sustainable economics. Environmental protection and organizational management: technical, financial, managerial, and political challenges of managing a sustainable environment.

Credits

3

GEV 7103 : Env. Policy and Law

Federal environmental law, regulation, and policy in the U.S. Comparative and dynamic view of environmental protection under U.S. law.

Credits

3

GEV 7104 : Coastal Environments

Theory and principles of coastal geomorphlology, covering physical, biological, geological and chemical characteristics of coastal zone environments.

Credits

3

GEV 7106 : Ecosystems Services

Economic and other benefits nature provides to people. Ecological Foundations of quantifying ecosystem services and practical issues involved with putting them to use.

Credits

3

GEV 7107 : Adv. Env. Geology

Interactions between geologic processes and society: natural hazards, natural resources, and their policy implications.

Credits

3

GEV 7108 : Climate Variability

Global climate, feedback mechanisms, and climate changes. Topics include: global energy balance, hydrological cycle, radiative transfer, general circulation, and natural and anthropogenic climate change.

Credits

3

GEV 7109 : Paleoclimates

History of the Earth's climate. Methods for reconstructing past climate and the mechanisms behind past climate change.

Credits

3

GEV 7110 : Sustainable Development

Sustainable development as an evolutionary process. Integration of physical sciences and engineering with social sciences for design of systems.

Credits

3

GEV 7112 : Environmental Health

Health issues, scientific understanding of causes, and possible future approaches to control of the major environmental health problems in industrialized and developing countries.

Credits

3

GEV 7113 : Soil Science

Principles of water, gas, heat, and solute movement in soils with selected examples related to soil and water management. Influence of soil physical properties on transfer processes.

Credits

3

GEV 7114 : Air Pollution

Processes that cause ambient air pollution, its sources, its effects, and mechanisms for its management.

Credits

3

GEV 7116 : Coral Reefs

Overview of the science, policy, and management issues for coral reef ecosystems.

Credits

3

GEV 7120 : Geology

Earth's dynamic systems and the environmental consequences of geologic processes.

Credits

3

GEV 7123 : Green Science

Application of eco-friencly thinking to scientific disciplines. Scientific solutions to global warming, pollution and other impacts on nature and the planet.

Credits

3

GEV 7124 : Biomimicry

Design and production of materials, structures, and systems that are modeled on biological entities and processes.

Credits

3

GEV 7126 : Process Geomorphology

Physical processes and resultant landforms. Spatial distribution of landforms and physical environments at local, regional, and global scales.

Credits

3

GEV 7127 : Environmental Systems

Systematic introduction to the processes of the atmosphere and earth's surfaces emphasizing the interaction between climatology, hydrology and geomorphology.

Credits

3

GEV 7128 : Env Systems Management

Concepts of environmental chemistry, physics, geology, and risk. Statutory and regulatory requirements of major federal environmental laws affecting environmental management.

Credits

3

GEV 7129 : Environmental Toxicology

Major classes of pollutants, their fate in the environment, disposition in organisms, and mechanisms of toxicity. Toxicity of pollutants in biological and environmental systems.

Credits

3

GEV 7200 : Advanced Quantitative Analysis

Multivariate statistical method applications to spatial problems. Linear and non-linear correlation and regression, factor analysis, cluster analysis. Spatial statistics including: trend surfaces, sequences, point distributions.

Credits

3

GEV 8000 : Spec Topics in Env Science

Current topics in environmental science. Topics will be announced on a semester by semester basis. Specific information available in the departmental office. Permission of the professor needed.

Credits

3

GEV 8001 : Environmental Topics I

Basic studies in environmental fields relevant to the research of graduate thesis students. Requires approval of thesis committee and relevant course instructor. Permission of the professor needed.

Credits

1

GEV 8002 : Environmental Topics II

Studies in environmental fields relevant to the research of graduate thesis students. Requires approval of thesis committee and relevant course instructor. Permission of the professor.

Credits

3

GEV 8003 : Speical Topics in Env Sustain

Current topics in environmental sustainability. Topics will be announced on a semester by semester basis. Specific information available in the departmental office. Permission of the professor.

Credits

3

GEV 8030 : Independent Study

Opportunity for enhanced study in a selected topical area to explore an area related to environmental science at the direction of a faculty member. Permission of the professor.

Credits

3

GEV 8300 : Environmental Lab&Field Topic

Selected subjects of special interest in laboratory and/or field environmental science. Three or four one-credit courses may be used to substitute for a three- or four- credit elective, respectively. Offered on three or four Saturday mornings (or occasionally, on weekday evenings).

Credits

1

Prerequisites

202030

GEV 8310 : Adv Topics in Env Lab Sc I

Advanced laboratory science topics in the Environment presented by senior faculty. Specific subject matter will vary with the expertise of the professor.

Credits

4

Prerequisites

GEV 7000 :Y

GEV 8320 : Adv Topics in Env Lab SC II

Advanced laboratory science topics in the Environment presented by senior faculty. Specific subject matter will vary with the expertise of the professor.

Credits

4

Prerequisites

GEV 7000 :Y

GEV 8321 : Microbial Processes

Examination of Earth's dynamic systems and the environmental consequences of microbial systems. Cannot be taken if student has already taken GEV 4321.

Credits

4

Prerequisites

GEV 7000 :Y

GEV 8322 : Ocean and Coastal Environ

Biological, geological, chemical, and physical characteristics of the ocean. Cannot be taken if student has already taken GEV 4322.

Credits

4

Prerequisites

GEV 7000 :Y

GEV 8323 : Watershed Biogeochemistry

Biogeochemical and physical characteristics of watersheds and the threats they currently face. Cannot be taken if student has already taken GEV 4323.

Credits

4

Prerequisites

GEV 7000 :Y

GEV 8324 : Environmental Systems

Interrelationships between environmental systems and societies. Field study of key habitats and homes.

Credits

4

Prerequisites

GEV 7000 :Y

GEV 8325 : Environmental Ecology

Principles of ecology and their implications for analyzing environmental problems. Understanding processes controlling the dynamics of populations, communities, and ecosystems.

Credits

4

GEV 8326 : Environmental Geology

Geologic processes, formation of fossil fuel and ore deposits, and the environmental impact of their extraction.

Credits

4

Prerequisites

GEV 7000 :Y

GEV 8327 : Geomorphic Environments

Processes that shape landforms: fluvial, glacial, perglacial, aeolian, slope, and weathering processes.

Credits

4

Prerequisites

GEV 7000 :Y

GEV 8328 : Climatology

Aspects of climate with emphasis on energy-moisture budgets, steady-state and non steady-state climatology, and climatic variations at macro- and minor-scales.

Credits

4

Prerequisites

GEV 7000 :Y

GEV 8330 : Fields Methods for Env Sci

Applied introduction in field methods in the environmental sciences, including the following skills GPS, stream hydrology measurements, vegetation classification, meteorological measurements, soils, water quality, remote sensing, GIS, local environmental issues, and natural and cultural history.

Credits

4

GEV 8332 : Sustainable Env. Systems

Viable economies, equity and justice, and ecological integrity. Social engineering, and economic dimensions, which make up the sustainability model.

Credits

3

Prerequisites

GEV 7000 :Y

GEV 8334 : Biogeochemistry

Biogeochemical cycling of carbon, nutrients, and metals that take place in soil, sediments, rivers, and the oceans.

Credits

3

GEV 8336 : Aquatic Ecology

Processes controlling the dynamics of populations, communities, and aquatic ecosystems.

Credits

3

Prerequisites

GEV 7000 :Y

GEV 8338 : Environmental Chemistry

Sources, reactions, transport, effects, and fates of chemical species in the air, soil, and water environments. Climate change, air pollution, stratospheric ozone depletion, pollution and treatment of water sources, and the utilization of insecticides and herbicides.

Credits

4

Prerequisites

GEV 2310

GEV 9000 : Directed Research

Labortory work and conferences dealing with a selected research problem. Pre-req: Consent of Chairperson

Credits

2

GEV 9001 : Thesis Continuation

This course is offered for 0 credits and is classified as a Thesis continuation course. This course is offered by the Department of Geography and the Environment, in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Permission of the professor required. RESTRICTED TO: Thesis Option Only

Credits

0

Prerequisites

GEV 7000 and GEV 7030

GEV 9002 : Portfolio

Development and presentation of the portfolio for the MS non-thesis portfolio option. Requires permission of the instructor.

Credits

0

GEV 9005 : Capstone Project

Development and presentation of the non-thesis option capstone project. Permission of the professor required. RESTRICTED TO: Non-These Option Only

Credits

1

GEV 9006 : Capstone Research I

Research of topical material for the capstone project. By permission of the professor. Restricted to MSES Program/Non-Thesis Option Only.

Credits

2

GEV 9007 : Capstone Research II

Research of topical material for the capstone project. By permission of the professor. MSES Program/Non-Thesis Option Only.

Credits

3

GEV 9008 : Advanced Envir. Topics I

Intensive coverage of topics in environmental science. Topics announced on semester by semester basis. By permission of the professor. MSES Progam/Non-Thesis Option Only.

Credits

2

GEV 9009 : Advanced Environ Topics II

Intensive coverage of topics in environmental science. Topics announced on semester by semester basis. By permission of the professor. MSES Program/Non-Thesis Option Only.

Credits

3

GEV 9010 : Thesis Research I

Basic research for completion of masters thesis. Requires approval of thesis committee and permission of the professor. RESTRICTED TO: Thesis Option Only

Credits

1

GEV 9020 : Thesis Research II

Basic research for completion of masters thesis. Requires approval of thesis commitee and permission of the professor. Restricted to: Thesis Option Only

Credits

2

GEV 9030 : Thesis Research III

Basic research for completion of masters thesis. Requires approval of thesis committee and permission of the professor. Restricted to: Thesis Option Only

Credits

3

GEV 9040 : Thesis Research IV

Basic research for completion of masters thesis. Requires approval of thesis committee and permission of the professor. Restricted to: Thesis Option Only

Credits

5

GEV 9050 : Thesis Writing

Final writing of the MS thesis. Requires approval of the thesis committee and permission of the professor. Restricted to: Thesis Option Only

Credits

1

GEV 9051 : Thesis Preparation

Preparation of the MS thesis. Requires approval of the thesis committee and permission by the professor. Restricted to: Thesis Option Only

Credits

1