Graduate curriculum in coastal sciences
Overview: There are 3 elements to the Coastal Sciences curriculum.
- Coastal Oceanography: an interdiscplinary course for new students. This course
will cover the basics of coastal hydrodynamics, geomorphology and ecology, with
an emphasis on the connections and feedbacks among these.
- A course in each of the 4 subdisciplines in Environmental Sciences: hydrology,
ecology, geosciences and atmospheric sciences. Many of these classes have significant
application to coastal sciences. A listing of the classes suggested for students
the the Coastal Sciences program are listed below.
- Advanced interdiscplinary seminars and skills courses (e.g., statistics, GIS,
numerical methods) as needed depending on students' interests, research, degree, and
background.
Courses with significant coastal sciences content or applicability
[Courses are listed by subdiscpline or as "general" (interdiscplinary or non-
disciplinary course)]
Hydrology
EVHY 545: Hydrological Transport Processes
EVHY 547: Environmental Fluid Mechanics
EVHY 747: Numerical Methods in the Hydrological Sciences
Ecology
EVEC 521: Aquatic Ecology
EVEC 523: Microbial Ecology
EVEC 722: Estuarine Ecology
Geosciences
EVGE 504: Geochemistry
EVGE 507: Aqueous Geochemistry
EVGE 582: Geomorphology
EVGE 584: Sediment Processes and Environments
EVGE 793: Organic Geochemistry
Atmospheric Sciences
EVAT 541: Atmospheric Dynamics
EVAT 550: Environmental Climatology
General (interdiscplinary or skills course)
EVSC 503: Applied Statistics for Environmental Scientists
EVSC 586: Isotope Geochemistry
EVSC 778: Quantitative Contaminant Hydrogeology
EVSC 796: GIS Methods
EVSC 796: Global Biogeochemical Cycles
