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ENVS 7170 Applied Environmental ENVS Environmental 3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Hours. 0 Lab Hours. This course covers a variety of chemical fields as they apply to the five essential human needs: water, food, health, , Science and energy. Various materials, including metals, inorganic and organic compounds, polymers, and proteins, as well as their applications, will ENVS 2202 be introduced. Basic research and cutting-edge technologies will be 3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Hours. 0 Lab Hours. discussed. This course is an interdisciplinary course integrating principles from Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Environmental Science graduate , chemistry, , geology, and non-science disciplines as programs. related to the interactions of humans and their environment. Issues ENVS 7180 Environmental Modeling of local, regional, and global concern will be used to help students 3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Hours. 0 Lab Hours. explain scientific concepts and analyze practical to complex An introduction to the study of environmental phenomena that environmental problems. Emphasis is placed on the study of , exhibit complexity emergent from a wide variety of parameters. An human population growth, energy, , and other environmental interdisciplinary course that employs the study of a variety of physical, issues and important environmental regulations. biological, and chemical problems. Students learn how to construct and analyze minimal mathematical, physical, and computational models ENVS 7110 Integrative Environmental Science that provide informative answers to precise questions about: population 3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Hours. 0 Lab Hours. dynamics; species interactions (e.g., competition, predation, parasitism); This course will explore the complex interdisciplinary of reaction kinetics; sedimentation; biological oscillators; coupled reaction environmental science. Students will investigate how interdisciplinary networks; molecular motors; limit cycles; reaction diffusion; nitrogen approaches incorporating the scientific disciplines, mathematics, policy, fluxes in low-relief watersheds; recovery from acid deposition in mountain and management can be combined to address real-world environmental streams; bacterial patterns; nitrogen budgets on farms; and issues. The course will often be team taught by 3 faculty and will contain the of human activity on the Earth. a mix of lecture and project based learning. All students will gain scientific Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Environmental Science graduate writing experience by developing a research proposal. programs. ENVS 7120 Genes Organisms and Ecosystems ENVS 7610 Graduate Seminar 3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Hours. 0 Lab Hours. 1 Credit Hour. 1 Lecture Hour. 0 Lab Hours. This course covers major principles of evolution and ecology, and An intensive study of an advanced topic in environmental science and/or application of these principles to the management of species and sustainability covered by one or more members of the graduate faculty in ecosystems. Topics include the origin and maintenance of genetic the College of Science and Mathematics. The selected topic will vary from variation, evolutionary change of populations over time, the role of semester to semester. speciation and extinction in regulating , and ecological interactions between organisms and their abiotic and biotic environments, ENVS 7730 Internship at the scales of individuals, populations, communities, and ecosystems. 1-6 Credit Hours. 0 Lecture Hours. 0 Lab Hours. These principles will be applied to conservation issues arising from global Students will apply their skills and knowledge to a current problem in a environmental change, and addressing these issues through sustainable professional setting, either on campus or at the site of a participating management of species and ecosystems. sponsor. Students must maintain contact with the Internship Director through the course of the internship work, and must submit a written report ENVS 7130 Biogeochemical Cycles and a work product at the end of the project. 3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Hours. 0 Lab Hours. This course examines biogeochemical cycles (C, N, P, S, and metals), the ENVS 7830 Non-Thesis Capstone environments in which these processes occur (hydrosphere, lithosphere, 3 Credit Hours. 0 Lecture Hours. 0 Lab Hours. atmosphere, and ), the chemical reactions that take place during Students will define, devise, and implement a Master’s Capstone project, these cycles, and the microorganisms that influence them. Additionally, a which includes writing, and presenting the project. major theme is the effect of human activities on biogeochemical cycles. ENVS 7900 Research ENVS 7140 Applied Statistics 1-3 Credit Hours. 0 Lecture Hours. 0 Lab Hours. 3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Hours. 0 Lab Hours. Doctoral students will pursue, under the direction of their advisory This course provides an overview of statistical analyses and methods committee, a program of independent research in a particular area of used in studies related to the biological and environmental . The environmental science. Results of the research will be presented as general emphasis of this course includes organizing and summarizing a dissertation in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ph.D. in data, drawing inferences from population samples via estimation and Environmental Science degree. significance tests, linear and generalized regression, random-effects ENVS 9999 Dissertation models, time-series, and spatio-temporal analysis. 1-6 Credit Hours. 0 Lecture Hours. 0 Lab Hours. ENVS 7150 Geospatial Data Students are provided support and direction in completing the doctoral 3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Hours. 0 Lab Hours. dissertation. The course provides guidance from both the dissertation This course is designed to introduce methods of geospatial data supervising chair and the dissertation committee. Students will complete acquisition, processing, mapping and analysis (from the field and from a quantitative project and must follow the scientific standards and best online geodatabases) in the environmental sciences. practices associated with question development, writing, statistical analysis, and interpretation of data. ENVS 7160 Computational Sciences 3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Hours. 0 Lab Hours. An introduction to the application of mathematics to various biologically and environmentally related problems, which can be analyzed both analytically and numerically. Computational approaches for model analysis are introduced and include numerical solutions of linear and nonlinear models, numerical differentiation and integration, data fitting, and other numerical methods.