Ecosystems and Natural Resources includes biodiversity, ecosystem structure and dynamics, environmental microbiology, environmental modeling, and environment in literature. Atmospheric processes are relevant to both air pollution control and global climate change.
Specialty is experimental studies of weathering reactions.
Biogeochemistry Biodiversity Issues Interest in Physics, Chemistry, Biochemistry and Math seems low. We need to find ways to gain broader support across the science departments. We should examine the dynamics of what influences such decisions. Galveston Bay is the nation's second most productive estuary, but is threatened with overuse and neglect as well as rapid population growth. Such ecosystems elsewhere in the nation and the world have assumed a high priority for study and protection.