The program in Environmental and Earth Sciences is designed to provide a graduate student an integrated, multidisciplinary education, nurtured through a carefully tailored degree program requiring a breadth of understanding and mastery of a spectrum of scientific and engineering principles. Among the goals is to provide students who have earned science or engineering undergraduate degrees a common ground for interdisciplinary communication, and understanding of the earth and environment, and competence in a discipline that will allow him or her to evaluate and solve complex geoscience or environmental problems.

The program offers the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Environmental and Earth Sciences. The Doctoral Program provides additional training in science, engineering, and planning coursework aimed at producing a sophisticated, solution-oriented approach to environmental problems while providing training in research and scholarship through the dissertation. An interdisciplinary, problem-solving approach characterizes all courses of study in this