Master of Science in Environmental Sciences

The environmental sciences program cultivates students perspectives of environmental issues and provides them with refined knowledge of environmental issues at the local, regional and global level. The program will increase the student's technical competence in addressing and analyzing these issues, their origins, ramifications and resolutions, and is designed to enhance and promote professional education and career opportunities in a wide area of interests.

Faculty from several departments in the College of Arts and Sciences provide mentoring, direction and instruction. Practicing professionals also lend their expertise to this program, and close relationships are maintained with industries and environmental agencies so that both students and faculty members can incorporate real-world issues in their studies and research.

The program offers challenging environmental research opportunities, which may be related to:

Campus
Home
Municipality
Business and industry
State or federal government
Consulting firms
Various advocacy groups.
The Department has access to a variety of instrumentation, including:

Atomic absorption spectrometer
Inductively-Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometer
Computer access to Geographical Information System
Gas and liquid chromatographs
Mass spectrometer
Nanoparticle analyzer
Carbon-nitrogen-sulfur analyzer
Sampling equipment
Automated water samplers
Low and high volume air samplers
Soil and sediment coring devices
Thermal cycler for real-time PCRs