524/GEO 524 Environmental Issues Seminar: Biogeochemistry – F. Morel
Current problems in environmental sciences. Element cycles; geochemistry – biota interactions, human impacts on the environment. A new topic is chosen every semester. Recent topics have included: the global carbon cycle, alternative energies, biodiversity environmental ethics, genetically-modified organisms and bioremediation.

The topic for spring is energy, environment and politics. It will deal with these issues in Iraq, Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. It will also deal with the regional and international implications of these issues.
Faculty: Ambassador Robert Finn

587/CEE 587 Ecohydrology – I. Rodriguez-Iturbe
This course seeks to describe the hydrologic mechanisms that underlie ecological observations. The space-time dynamics of soil-plant-atmosphere is studied at different temporal and spatial scales. A review is done of the role of environmental fluctuations in the distribution of vegetation. Emphasis is made in the dynamics of soil moisture.

Pertinent Courses in Allied Departments

Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
571 Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
572 Atmospheric and Oceanic Wave Dynamics
573/GEO 573 Physical Oceanography
574/GEO 574 Climate Dynamics
575 Numerical Prediction of the Atmosphere and Ocean
577/GEO 577 Weather and Climate Dynamics
578/GEO 578 Chemical Oceanography

Chemical Engineering
502/APC 502 Mathematical Methods of Engineering Analysis II
504 Chemical Reactor Engineering
505 Advanced Heat and Mass Transfer
508 Numerical Methods for Engineers
522 Colloidal Dispersions I
546 Aerosol Physics

Chemistry
507 Solid State Chemistry
522 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry
522 Coordination Chemistry
539 Introduction to Chemical Instrumentation
544 Inorganic Chemistry of Life

Civil and Environmental Engineering
524/APC 575 Random Heterogeneous Materials
571 Environmental Chemistry
576 Water Quality Modeling and Analysis
581 Theory of Groundwater Flow
582 Advanced Groundwater Modeling
586 Physical Hydrology
587/ENV 587 Ecohydrology

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
504 Fundamental Concepts in Ecology
515 Conservation Biology
519 Theoretical Ecology
521 Tropical Ecology
522 Colloquium on the Biology of Populations
533 Topics in Ecology

Economics
523 Public Finance I
524 Public Finance II

Geosciences
500 Field Geology
512 Thermochemistry in Geological and Materials Science
522 Hydrothermal Geochemistry
523 Geomicrobiology
524/ENV 524 Environmental Issues Seminar: Biogeochemistry
521 Isotope Geochemistry Seminar
527/AOS 527 Atmospheric Radiative Transfer
537/AOS 537 Atmospheric Chemistry
543 Rock Fracture
547/AOS 547 Atmospheric Thermodynamics Convection

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
423 Heat Transfer
501/APC 501 Mathematical Methods of Engineering Analysis I
306 Mathematics in Engineering II*
504/APC 504 Analytical Techniques in Differential Equations II
507/APC 507 Basic Numerical Methods for Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations
508/APC 508 Numerical Solutions of Hyperbolic Equations
510/APC 510 Numerical Solutions of Elliptic Equations
513 Dynamic Data Analysis
554 Special Topics in Energy and Environment
591 Physics of Gases
594 Combustion

Molecular Biology
571/572 Cellular Biochemistry

Operations Research and Financial Engineering
542 Linear Optimization
544 Stochastic Modeling

Woodrow Wilson School
511c Microeconomic Analysis
521 Domestic Politics
527b Environmental Planning
537/MAE 559 Introduction to Energy and Environmental Problems
569 Alternative Strategies for Rural Development
582c Environmental Economics and Policy
584 The Use of Science in Environmental Policy
585/POP 505 Population, Environment and Health
588 Science, Technology and Environmental Policy
589 Methods in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy

*May be used to satisfy a graduate level mathematics requirement.