• With approximately 40 students enrolled, we stress personalized, individual attention to graduate student education and research. The program provides a choice between emphasizing the environmental aspects of biology, chemistry, or geology, or a more broadly focused approach involving courses in each of the above fields. 
  • Faculty and students are engaged in the research of environmental issues including: wetlands delineation; the treatment of nitrate contaminated groundwater with microbiological techniques; the impact of land use on groundwater and surface water quality; the use of phytoremediation in the cleanup of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon contaminated soil; brownfield investigation and restoration; migration behavior and ecology of birds, and behavioral ecology of spiders and other arthropods; microbial source tracking; the use of microorganisms in biofuel synthesis; and  microbial community dynamics and diversity in marine and freshwater sediments.