Concentrations
The Environmental Sciences faculty has outlined several concentration options for students to choose from based on pressing environmental issues, student interest, and needs in the job market. Students can, in consultation with their academic advisor, create an independently designed concentration if their interests lie outside the current concentration list.
Agriculture and the Environment: Impacts of agriculture on the environment and strategies for minimizing environmental degradation.
Conservation Biology and Biodiversity: Endangered species and ecosystems and strategies for conserving the diversity of Earth's life forms.
Ecological Design: Use of ecological systems to improve environmental quality.
Environmental Analysis and Assessment: Techniques for measuring environmental impacts and managing environmental data.
Environmental Biology: Ecological and molecular analysis of endangered populations, phenomena affecting biological diversity, interrelationship of organisms and their environments, and conservation genetics.
Environmental Geology: Groundwater, earth hazards, historical climate change, and landscape evolution.
Environmental Health: Exploration of the link between toxins, pollution, and human health.
Global Environmental and Climate Change: Analysis of the controls on Earth's climate and ecosystem responses to change.
Water Resources: Global water supply and human impacts on surface waters.
Self-design: Are you interested in an environmental topic that is not captured in these focus tracks? No problem, work with your adviser to design your own trajectory!
