Research Areas
The major thrusts of our program are summarized in the following areas of excellence, in which you would focus your dissertation research:
Environmental Biology: Genes, Organisms and Ecosystems
- Chemical, physiological, population, community, landscape and ecosystem ecology
- Conservation biology and ecological restoration
- Microbial ecology
- Ecological and environmental genomics
- Population and evolutionary genetics
- Stress physiology
- Environmental toxicology
Environmental Earth Science
- Watershed processes
- Hydrogeology
- Environmental geochemistry
- Chemical oceanography
- Environmental geophysics
- Environmental stressors
- Ecotoxicology and risk assessment
- Environmental health sciences
Environmental Chemistry
- Analytical environmental chemistry
- Chemistry of mineral-water interfaces
- Aqueous geochemistry
- Development of environmentally friendly chromatographic methods
- Development of microscopy techniques for applications in surface chemistry and materials science
Environmental Complexity
- Non-traditional approaches to ecosystem analysis
- Nonlinear dynamics of natural systems
- Biological-physical coupling
- Emergent phenomena and biocomplexity
- Self-affine time series analysis and prediction
- Agent-based modeling
- Environmental applications of percolation theory
Environmental Physics
- Environmental geophysics
- Spectroscopy, chemical physics, remote sensing, atmospheric physics
- Radio frequency and terahertz sensor science and technology, solid-state physics and engineering