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2001-2002 General Catalog
University of California, Riverside
William A. Jury, Director
Program Office, 2207 Geology
(909) 787-2441; http://ese.ucr.edu/ES
Professors
Eugene N. Anderson, Ph.D. (Anthropology)
Janet T. Arey, Ph.D.
Roger Atkinson, Ph.D.
Andrew C.-S. Chang, Ph.D.
Donald A. Cooksey, Ph.D. (Plant Pathology)
Eric L. Chronister, Ph.D. (Chemistry)
David E. Crowley, Ph.D.
David A. Eastmond, Ph.D. (Cell Biology and Neuroscience)
Walter J. Farmer, Ph.D.
William T. Frankenberger, Jr., Ph.D.
Sarjeet S. Gill, Ph.D. (Cell Biology and Neuroscience)
Robert C. Graham, Ph.D.
Andrew J. Grosovsky, Ph.D. (Cell Biology and Neuroscience)
William A. Jury, Ph.D.
Keith C. Knapp, Ph.D.
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)
Stephen K. Park, Ph.D. (Earth Sciences)
David R. Parker, Ph.D.
Kimberly A. Prather, Ph.D. (Chemistry)
Daniel Schlenk, Ph.D.
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.
Francisco Zaera, Ph.D. (Chemistry)
Associate Professors
Christopher Amrhein, Ph.D.
Michael A. Anderson, Ph.D.
Wilfred Chen, Ph.D. (Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
David M. Crohn, Ph.D.
Michael A. McKibben, Ph.D. (Earth Sciences)
Umar Mohideen, Ph.D. (Physics)
Alan E. Williams, Ph.D. (Earth Sciences)
Laosheng Wu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professors
Juliann E. Allison, Ph.D. (Political Science)
Maria L. Cruz-Torres, Ph.D. (Anthropology)
Marc Deshusses, Ph.D. (Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
Linda Fernandez, Ph.D.
Brian Lanoil, Ph.D.
Thomas Meixner, Ph.D.
Kurt Schwabe, Ph.D.
Lisa Stein, Ph.D.
Anders O. Wistrom, Ph.D. (Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
Paul J. Ziemann, Ph.D.
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.
Students normally 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 are 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 05LA, 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.
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 Student Affairs
Environmental Sciences and Engineering
2217 Geology
University of California, Riverside,
Riverside, CA 92521
(909) 787-2441; envisci@citrus.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.
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 Student Affairs
Environmental Sciences and Engineering
2217 Geology
University of California, Riverside,
Riverside, CA 92521
(909) 787-2441; envisci@citrus.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 depends 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 is 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 is redirected to the master's degree or terminated from the program. The written and oral exams are normally taken at the end of the second year of graduate study.
Dissertation and Final Oral Examination 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 before the committee.
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.
Normative Time to Degree 15 quarters
Career Opportunities
Students trained in the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Environmental Sciences can 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.
GRADUATE COURSES
ENSC 201. Environmental Management. (4)
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisite(s): ECON 003 or consent of instructor. An introduction to economic instruments used to make environmental policy to address pollution control and natural resource protection on local and international scales. Investigates public and private incentives for single and multiple polluters to reduce pollution and conserve exhaustible and renewable resources. Fernandez
ENSC 202. Principles and Applications of Environmental Modeling. (4)
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisite(s): graduate standing or consent of instructor. Introduction to the principles of transport modeling, including mass balance and flux laws, boundary conditions, and rate processes. Discusses and demonstrates the use of compartmental and differential models of specific environmental processes. Also examines case studies and environmental modeling software applications. May be taken on a Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) basis by students advanced to candidacy for the Ph.D. Jury, Chang
ENSC 208. Ecotoxicology. (4)
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisite(s): BIOL 005A, BIOL 005B; CHEM 112A-CHEM 112B; or consent of instructor. Introduction to the impact of chemicals upon ecological systems. Examination of the fate and effects of environmental chemicals in various hierarchies of biological organization to learn how to carry out precise and accurate assessments of ecological risk. Cross-listed with SWSC 208. Schlenk
ENSC 224. Watershed Hydrologic Systems. (5)
Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Prerequisite(s): ENSC 163, GEO 157, MATH 009C or MATH 09HC; or consent of instructor. Discusses the hydrologic processes occurring at watershed scale and the systems of and distributed approaches to watershed hydrologic modeling. Focuses on modeling rainfall-runoff processes and considering water quality to determine the validity of hydrologic simulation models. Cross-listed with SWSC 224. Meixner
ENSC 232. Biogeochemistry. (4) F, Odd Years
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Prerequisite(s): graduate standing; consent of instructor. A study of the biogeochemical cycling and exchange of carbon and important nutrients (N, S, base cations) between the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere. Quantitatively describes processes at scales ranging from local to global. Addresses modern concerns about water and atmospheric quality, including global climate change. Cross-listed with SWSC 232. Parker
ENSC 297. Directed Research. (1-6)
Outside research, three to eighteen hours. Prerequisite(s): graduate standing; consent of instructor. Individual research performed under the direction of a faculty member. Graded Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC). Course is repeatable.
ENSC 299. Research for the Thesis or Dissertation. (1-12)
Outside research, three to thirty-six hours. Prerequisite(s): graduate standing; consent of instructor. Research in environmental sciences for the M.S. thesis or Ph.D. dissertation. Graded Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC). Course is repeatable.
PROFESSIONAL COURSE
ENSC 302. Teaching Practicum. (1-4)
Practicum, three to twelve hours. Prerequisite(s): graduate standing. Supervised teaching in Environmental Sciences or related courses. Required of all teaching assistants in Environmental Sciences. Graded Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC). Course is repeatable.
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