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Professors
Eugene N. Anderson, Ph.D. (Anthropology)
Janet T. Arey, Ph.D.(Environmental Sciences)
Roger Atkinson, Ph.D. (Environmental Sciences)
Andrew C.-S. Chang, Ph.D. (Environmental Sciences)
Donald A. Cooksey, Ph.D. (Plant Pathology)
Walter J. Farmer, Ph.D. (Environmental Sciences)
William T. Frankenberger, Jr., Ph.D.(Environmental Sciences)
Sarjeet S. Gill, Ph.D. (Cell Biology and Neuroscience)
Robert C. Graham, Ph.D. (Environmental Sciences)
William A. Jury, Ph.D. (Environmental Sciences)
Keith C. Knapp, Ph.D. (Environmental Sciences)
Tien Lee, Ph.D. (Earth Sciences)
Douglas E. Maclaughlin, Ph.D. (Physics)
Mark R. Matsumoto, Ph.D. (Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
Richard A. Minnich, Ph.D. (Earth Sciences)
Ashok Mulchandani, Ph.D. (Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
Joseph M. Norbeck, Ph.D. (Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
Kimberly A. Prather, Ph.D. (Chemistry)
Harry W.K. Tom, Ph.D. (Physics)
Akula Venkatram, Ph.D. (Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
Jory A. Yarmoff, Ph.D. (Physics)
Marylynn V. Yates, Ph.D. (Environmental Sciences)
Francisco Zaera, Ph.D. (Chemistry)
Associate Professors
Christopher Amrhein, Ph.D. (Environmental Sciences)
Michael A. Anderson, Ph.D. (Environmental Sciences)
Eric L. Chronister, Ph.D. (Chemistry)
David E. Crowley, Ph.D. (Environmental Sciences)
David A. Eastmond, Ph.D. (Cell Biology and Neuroscience)
Andrew J. Grosovsky, Ph.D. (Cell Biology and Neuroscience)
Michael A. McKibben, Ph.D. (Earth Sciences)
Steven K. Park, Ph.D. (Earth Sciences)
David R. Parker, Ph.D. (Environmental Sciences)
Alan E. Williams, Ph.D. (Earth Sciences)
Assistant Professors
Juliann E. Allison, Ph.D. (Political Science)
Wilfred Chen, Ph.D. (Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
David M. Crohn, Ph.D. (Environmental Sciences)
Maria L. Cruz-Torres, Ph.D. (Anthropology)
Marc Deshusses, Ph.D. (Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
Linda Fernandez, Ph.D. (Environmental Sciences)
Rajesh K. Mehra, Ph.D. (Cell Biology and Neuroscience)
Thomas Meixner, Ph.D. (Environmental Sciences)
Umar Mohideen, Ph.D. (Physics)
Kurt Schwabe, Ph.D.(Environmental Sciences)
Anders O. Wistrom, Ph.D. (Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
Laosheng Wu, Ph.D. (Environmental Sciences)
Paul J. Zeimann, Ph.D. (Environmental Sciences)
Jingsong Zhang, Ph.D. (Chemistry)
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Adjunct Professor
James Lents, Ph.D. (Engineering)

Recent years have seen a dramatic increase at both the state and national level in the need for individuals trained to handle complex environmental problems. Numerous environmental concerns associated with pesticide application, waste disposal, air pollution, and other health-threatening activities have prompted regulatory agencies to develop strategies for the use and disposal of potentially hazardous materials. This situation has created a need in government and industry for scientists trained in a broad spectrum of disciplines. Well-trained environmental scientists are in demand at all levels of the regulatory process.

The Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Environmental Sciences mobilizes the expertise of UCR's faculty by providing advanced educational opportunities for students interested in pursuing research, teaching, and professional careers in the wide spectrum of activities relevant to environmental science.

GRADUATE PROGRAM

Students normally will come to the program having completed an undergraduate degree in environmental science, in a related discipline such as atmospheric science, aquatic science, earth science, economics, hydrology, soil science, or one of the basic sciences such as biology, chemistry, or physics. Students will be expected to have completed the following courses or their equivalents before entering the program, or to make up the deficiency early in their graduate studies.

CHEM 001A-CHEM 001B-CHEM 001C or equivalent
PHYS 002A, PHYS 002B, PHYS 002C or equivalent
MATH 009A-MATH 009B or equivalent
BIOL 005A, BIOL 005B, BIOL 005C or equivalent
ECON 003 or equivalent

Students may conduct research in any environmentally related area of interest to a sponsoring faculty member. Examples are:

• Kinetic and products studies of the atmospheric chemistry of volatile organic compounds
• Laboratory studies of the dynamics, kinetics and products of the photolysis and reactions of small molecules in the gas phase
• Emissions of organic compounds from biogenic sources
• Atmospheric chemistry and genotoxicity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and their nitrated derivatives
• Atmospheric deposition of nitrogenous compounds and their effect on plant community structure and function in California ecosystems
• Fate and consequences of contaminants discharged into natural and constructed wetlands
• Integrated assessment of the food-chain hazards posed by trace metals released into the environment
• Ecotoxicology of contaminants in inland saline lakes in California (Salton Sea, Owens Lake bed)
• Geophysical monitoring of contaminant migration
• Shallow noninvasive detection of wastes and waste containers
• Field scale transport and fate of chemicals in the vadose zone
• Volatilization of organic chemicals from soil and water surfaces
• Transport and fate of pathogenic organisms in soils and aquifers
• Bioremediation of toxic substances in soils
• Theoretical and experimental studies of colloidal aggregation
• Economic issues associated with agriculture, natural resources, and the environment
• Economic impacts of air quality and climate on agriculture
• Management and policy issues associated with California water resources

There is no foreign language requirement for the program.

Master's Degree

The general requirements for the M.S. degree in Environmental Sciences are found in the Announcement of the Graduate Division, University of California, Riverside. The graduate program offers only the thesis plan for the degree.

For information on required courses contact

Graduate Secretary
Environmental Sciences and Engineering
2217 Geology
University of California, Riverside,
Riverside, CA 92521
(909) 787-2441; karenh@ucrac1.ucr.edu

Each quarter, students must enroll in the seminar course CHEM 257/SWSC 257 and give an oral presentation at the annual student seminar/retreat. A minimum of 36 quarter units of graduate and upper-division undergraduate courses in or significantly related to Environmental Sciences are required. At least 24 of the 36 units must be graduate courses. A maximum of 12 of the 24 graduate units may be in graduate research for the thesis. No more than two units of CHEM 257/SWSC 257 may be applied toward the 24-unit graduate requirement.

The student must write a thesis that is accepted by the Thesis Committee members and pass an oral defense of the thesis.

Doctoral Degree

Course Work. Upon acceptance to the Ph.D. program, the student selects a Course Work Advisory Committee consisting of three members of the faculty participating in the graduate program to assist in the planning of the individualized curriculum. For information on required courses contact

Graduate Secretary
Environmental Sciences and Engineering
2217 Geology
University of California, Riverside,
Riverside, CA 92521
(909) 787-2441; karenh@ucrac1.ucr.edu

A course work study plan should be filed with the Graduate Advisor by the second quarter after admission. Each quarter, students must enroll in the seminar course CHEM 257/SWSC 257 and give an oral presentation at the annual student seminar/retreat. The elective courses prescribed by the student's Course Work Advisory Committee will depend on the research interests of the student.

Comprehensive Written Examination. Following completion of all course work, the student writes a qualifying examination prepared and administered by the Written Qualifying Committee, which consists of five faculty members with interests in the students' line of research. The written exam may be attempted only twice. If it is failed twice, the student will be redirected to the master's degree or terminated from the program.

Oral Examination. A student who has successfully passed the written qualifying examination may proceed with the oral qualifying examination, conducted before the Oral Qualifying Examination Committee, which consists of five faculty members, one of whom must be from outside the graduate program in Environmental Sciences.The oral examination may be attempted only twice. If the oral qualifying exam is failed twice, the student will be redirected to the master's degree or terminated from the program. The written and oral exams will normally be taken at the end of the second year of graduate study.

Dissertation. All Ph.D. students write a doctoral dissertation, which is read and accepted by all members of the Doctoral Dissertation Committee, comprised of three faculty from the graduate program in Environmental Sciences. The student must pass a final, oral defense of the thesis in front of the three members.

Relationship between Master's and Doctoral Programs. The master's and Ph.D. programs are separate. Students who enter the Ph.D. program do not need to acquire a master's first, although students may elect to take both.

The normative time to degree is 15 quarters.

Career Opportunities

Students trained in the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Environmental Sciences will be able to fill many areas of expertise needed in the state and nation. Such areas include regulatory agencies, consulting firms, government and academic research institutions, and industrial research facilities.