Environmental Quality

Field Description

This minor field offers qualified engineers and scientists an opportunity to broaden their knowledge in physical, chemical, and biological areas related to environmental-quality problems and their control. It is intended to encourage interdisciplinary study. The objective is to understand human interaction with the environment.

Students in this minor take the combination of courses, seminars, and projects considered best for them. Master's degree candidates ordinarily take a minimum of three courses; the courses must be in at least two areas outside their major field. Doctoral degree candidates ordinarily take a minimum of five courses in at least two areas outside their major field.

This is a minor field. Application for admission is made only to the major fields. After matriculation, a student may select minor subjects from the major or minor fields.

Contact Information

Email: cee_grad@cornell.edu
Phone: 607 255-7560

219 Hollister Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY  14853

Subject and Degrees

Concentrations by Subject

Environmental Quality

  • environmental quality (minor)

Faculty

April Gu

  • Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
  • Concentrations: Environmental Quality: environmental quality
  • Research Interests: water quality and environmental health

Damian E. Helbling

  • Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
  • Concentrations: Environmental Quality: environmental quality

Robert Warren Howarth

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Environmental Quality: environmental quality
  • Research Interests: community and ecosystem ecology

Matthew Charles Reid

  • Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
  • Concentrations: Environmental Quality: environmental quality
  • Research Interests: coupled biological, chemical and physical processes

Ruth E Richardson

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Environmental Quality: environmental quality
  • Research Interests: bioenvironmental engineering; microbial bioremediation; microbial ecology; assessing viability of environmental microbes