In this program students work closely with faculty on research topics and take a range of courses in engineering and scientific fields. There are strong collaborations and opportunities for students with faculty and students in the Departments of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Civil Engineering. In addition, the GHE group is an active participant in studies of the Chesapeake Bay and the newly established Urban Long Term Ecological Research Site in Baltimore. Degree Programs M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are offered. Students with an undergraduate or M.S. degree in any scientific or engineering discipline may be admitted to the Masters or Ph.D. programs.
Considerable flexibility exists in the curriculum.
Financial aid is available to qualified students in the form of fellowships, research assistantships, and teaching assistantships. Role of climate and human activities on forest dynamics, evolution of wetlands, interactions between land use and estuarine habitats, paleoecology of estuarine food web dynamics. Hydrology and environmental fluid mechanics, atmospheric boundary layer and regional scale land-atmosphere interaction, turbulence and laser remote sensing of the atmosphere, soil moisture and flow in porous media. Associate Research Professor. Environmental fluid mechanics, turbulent mixing, small scale processes and their effect on contaminant fate and transport.