Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
The Ph.D. program in Environmental Science is jointly administered by the Departments of EES and Civil and Environmental Engineering. It aimed at excellence in research and graduate education in the science and engineering of:
- Earth surface and subsurface system dynamics involving the intersection of engineering and geological timescales;
- natural and human-induced environmental hazards and associated risk management; and
- management and restoration of environmental systems involving coupled physical, chemical and biological elements.
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