MS-ERE, Water Resources and Climate Risks Concentration: Coursework

Required Classes:

EAEE E4257: Environmental data analysis and modeling

EESC W4400: Dynamics of climate variability and climate change

EESC W4404: Regional climate and climate impacts

Electives:

A minimum of 1 class is required from each group below. Selections should be made in consultation with the student’s advisor. A suggested program is shown with the courses in bold.

Group A: Data Analysis and Solution Techniques

EAEE E4009: Geographic information systems for resource, environment, and infrastructure management

EAEE E6210: Quantitative environmental risk analysis

APMA E4300: Numerical methods

STAT W4419: Decision analysis

STAT W4437: Time series analysis

STAT G6101: Statistical modeling for data analysis

IEOR E4004: Introduction to operations research: deterministic models

IEOR E4007: Optimization models and methods for financial engineering

IEOR E4106: Introduction to operations research: stochastic models

EESC W4401: Quantitative models of climate-sensitive natural and human systems

EESC W4950: Mathematical methods in the Earth sciences

EESC G6908: Quantitative methods of data analysis

Group B: Applied Sciences

EAEE E4001: Industrial ecology of Earth resources

EAEE E4150: Air pollution prevention and control

EAEE E4160: Solid and hazardous waste management

EAEE E4900: Applied transport and chemical rate phenomena

EAEE E6240: Physical hydrology

CIEE E4252: Environmental engineering

CIEE E4257: Contaminant transport in subsurface systems

APPH E4210: Geophysical fluid dynamics

EESC W4030: Climatic change

EESC W4925: Principles of physical oceanography

EESC W4930: Earth’s oceans and atmosphere

EESC G6921: Atmospheric dynamics

EESC G6927: Tropical oceanography

EESC G6928: Tropical meteorology

EESC G6930: Ocean dynamics

MSPH P8475: Emerging infectious diseases

Group C: Socioeconomic Decision Making

EAEE E4100: Management and development of water systems (alternate years)

EAEE E4361: Economics of Earth resource industries (alternate years)

CIEN E4133: Capital facility planning and financing

EESC G4402/3: Integrative seminar: managing climate variability and adapting to climate change

ECON E4329: Economics of sustainable development

ECONW4625: Economics of the environment

MSPH P8325: Risk assessment, management and communication

MSPH P8380: Urban environmental planning: the basis in public health

MSPH P9317: Case studies in risk assessment and environmental policy