ENVR Courses

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Class Number	Class	Meeting Time	Instructor	Room	Unreserved Enrollment	Reserved Enrollment	Total Enrollment	Wait List
10843	ENVR 205 - 001 Engineering Tools for Environmental Problem Solving	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Barbara Turpin	Rosenau Hall-Rm 0235	Seats filled	Seats filled	60/60	1/999
Description: Prerequisite, MATH 231. Introduction to mass, energy, and momentum transport applied to environmental problem solving. Students ask and answer policy-oriented questions (define systems, document assumptions, explain the value and limitations of quantitative answers). They will apply these tools to the design of engineered solutions and characterization of natural and perturbed systems. 3 units.
11239	ENVR 335 - 001 Adv Environ-ECUIPP Lab: Connecting with Communities Through Environmental Research for PH Protection	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Amanda Northcross, MICHAEL FISHER	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 2302	0/10	Seats filled	0/10	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, ENVR 89 or ENVR 135. Students join the Environment-ECUIPP Lab to research pressing environmental health issues with local communities. The ECUIPP Lab (Environmentally-Engaged Communities and Undergraduate students Investigating for Public health Protection), organized by the Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, is a creative learning community of students, faculty members and practice partners. Students in the Advanced ECUIPP lab continue to develop research skills focusing on data analysis, data visualization and risk communication. 3 units.
1173	ENVR 400 - 001 Seminar Series	We 12:20PM - 1:10PM	Lauren Eaves	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 1301	Seats filled	21/75	21/75	0/999
Description: Presents results of ongoing research projects in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering. Topics and presenters are selected from among departmental graduate students and faculty. Student presenters learn how to present their research to a lay audience while students taking the class for credit learn how to critique a presentation as well as forge professional collaborations across disciplines. Undergraduates may not enroll without first discussing their participation, and obtaining approval from the instructor. 0.5 - 1 units.
1250	ENVR 416 - 001 Aerosol Physics and Chemistry	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	JASON SURRATT	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 2304	6/25	Seats filled	6/25	0/999
Description: Permission of the instructor for nonmajors. Physical and chemical principles underlying behavior of particles suspended in air. Topics include rectilinear and curvilinear motion of the particles in a force field, diffusion, evaporation, and condensation, electrical and optical properties, and particle coagulation. Three lecture hours a week and two laboratory sessions. 4 units.
13767	ENVR 417 - 001 Oceanography	TuTh 8:00AM - 9:15AM	CAROL ARNOSTI	Murray Hall-Rm G201	2/5	Seats filled	2/5	0/999
Description: Required preparation, major in a natural science or two courses in natural sciences. Studies origin of ocean basins, seawater chemistry and dynamics, biological communities, sedimentary record, and oceanographic history. Term paper. Students lacking science background should see EMES 103. Students may not receive credit for both EMES 103 and EMES 401. Course previously offered as GEOL 403/MASC 401. 3 units.
14562	ENVR 417 - 002 Oceanography	MoWe 3:30PM - 4:45PM	MARC ALPERIN	Dey Hall-Rm 0305	1/5	Seats filled	1/5	0/999
Description: Required preparation, major in a natural science or two courses in natural sciences. Studies origin of ocean basins, seawater chemistry and dynamics, biological communities, sedimentary record, and oceanographic history. Term paper. Students lacking science background should see EMES 103. Students may not receive credit for both EMES 103 and EMES 401. Course previously offered as GEOL 403/MASC 401. 3 units.
1653	ENVR 419 - 001 Chemical Equilibria in Natural Waters	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Orlando Coronell	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 2302	Seats filled	Seats filled	15/15	0/999
Description: Principles and applications of chemical equilibria to natural waters. Acid-base, solubility, complex formation, and redox reactions are discussed. This course uses a problem-solving approach to illustrate chemical speciation and environmental implications. Three lecture hours per week. 3 units.
1174	ENVR 430 - 001 Health Effects of Environmental Agents	MoWeFr 1:25PM - 2:15PM	KUN LU	Rosenau Hall-Rm 0235	Seats filled	Seats filled	50/50	0/999
Description: Required preparation, basic biology, chemistry through organic, calculus. Permission of the instructor for students lacking this preparation. Interactions of environmental agents (chemicals, infectious organisms, radiation) with biological systems including humans, with attention to routes of entry, distribution, metabolism, elimination, and mechanisms of adverse effects. Three lecture hours per week. 3 units.
1858	ENVR 451 - 001 Introduction to Environmental Modeling	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	WILLIAM VIZUETE	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 2303	Seats filled	Seats filled	20/20	7/999
Description: Focuses on how to model environmental transport and chemistry of pollutants. Covers mole balances, rate laws, chemical kinetics, and reactor design. Principles are applied to any environmental system where chemical transformations must be described. Three lecture hours per week. 3 units.
11792	ENVR 453 - 001 Groundwater Hydrology	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Timothy Weigand	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 1302	2/15	Seats filled	2/15	0/999
Description: Required preparation, math through differential equations and some familiarity with fluid mechanics. Conservation principles for mass, momentum, and energy developed and applied to groundwater systems. Scope includes the movement of water, gas, and organic liquid phases, the transport and reaction of contaminants. Three lecture hours per week. 3 units.
1176	ENVR 468 - 001 Temporal GIS and Space/Time Geostatistics for the Environment and Public Health	TuTh 8:00AM - 9:15AM	Marc Serre	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 1304	29/36	Seats filled	29/36	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, MATH 232; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. Reviews geographical information systems (GIS). Covers geostatistics theory for the interpolation of environmental and health monitoring data across space and time. Uses publicly available water and air quality monitoring data to create maps used for environmental assessment, regulatory compliance analysis, exposure science, and risk analysis. 3 units.
1782	ENVR 525 - 001 Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Global Health	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	MICHAEL FISHER	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 1304	19/45	Seats filled	19/45	0/999
Description: Builds on an understanding of infectious and toxic hazards, disease causation, and environmental transmission. Deals with hazard and disease classification; safety, risk, and vulnerability; interventions and their health impact; approaches in different settings; distal factors (e.g., water scarcity, climate change); and approaches to studying unsafe water, sanitation, and hygiene. Previously offered as ENVR 682. 3 units.
1971	ENVR 548 - 001 Sustainable Energy Systems	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Noah Kittner	Murphey Hall-Rm 0104	Seats filled	Seats filled	10/10	4/999
Description: This course will provide an introduction to urgent topics related to energy, sustainability, and the environment. The course material will focus on new technologies, policies, and plans in cities and different governing bodies in the energy system with a focus on developing tools to analyze energy for its sustainability, impact on people, the environment, and the economy. 3 units.
15028	ENVR 570 - 001 Uncertainty, Decisions, and the Environment	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	ANDREW YATES	Carolina Hall-Rm 0322	4/5	Seats filled	4/5	0/999
Description: Required preparation, one course in probability and statistics. Use of quantitative tools for balancing conflicting priorities (such as costs versus human health protection) and evaluating uncertainties when making environmental decisions. 3 units.
1859	ENVR 582 - 001 Sanitation for Development	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Musa Manga	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 1303	10/22	Seats filled	10/22	0/999
Description: Over a million children die yearly from diarrhea, in part because 2.0 billion humans do not have access to a basic toilet. This course presents the problems and context of inadequate sanitation in the developing world, and, more importantly, the types of solutions and approaches available to reduce these problems. 3 units.
1429	ENVR 630 - 001 Systems Biology in Environmental Health	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	REBECCA FRY	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 1304	29/45	Seats filled	29/45	0/999
Description: Required preparation, one year of biology. Environmental systems biology examines how environmental stressors influence the components of a biological system, and how the interactions between these components result in changes in the function and behavior of that system. 3 units.
1177	ENVR 661 - 001 Scientific Computation I	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	BOYCE GRIFFITH	Phillips Hall-Rm 0367	Seats filled	Seats filled	2/2	0/999
Description: Requires some programming experience and basic numerical analysis. Error in computation, solutions of nonlinear equations, interpolation, approximation of functions, Fourier methods, numerical integration and differentiation, introduction to numerical solution of ODEs, Gaussian elimination. 3 units.
1178	ENVR 668 - 001 Methods of Applied Mathematics I	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Katie Newhall	Phillips Hall-Rm 0224	Seats filled	Seats filled	2/2	0/999
Description: Requires an undergraduate course in differential equations. Contour integration, asymptotic expansions, steepest descent/stationary phase methods, special functions arising in physical applications, elliptic and theta functions, elementary bifurcation theory. 3 units.
13493	ENVR 671 - 001 Environmental Physics I	TuTh 8:00AM - 9:15AM	Cass Miller	TBA	2/8	Seats filled	2/8	0/999
Description: A first graduate-level course in physical principles relevant to environmental systems. Topics include dimensional analysis, tensor calculus, conservation of mass and momentum. Applications are considered from natural and engineered systems and across all relevant media. Focus is on the development of mechanistic representation of environmental systems. 3 units.
11794	ENVR 675 - 001 Air Pollution, Chemistry, and Physics	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Jason West	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 2303	4/20	Seats filled	4/20	0/999
Description: This class is designed for graduate students planning for research in air pollution, emphasizing chemical kinetics and engineering approaches to problem solving in addition to atmospheric structure, meteorology, and modeling. We address problems of stratospheric and tropospheric ozone, particulate matter, and acid rain. We emphasize quantitative problem solving in homework. 3 units.
1716	ENVR 705 - 001 One Health: Philosophy to Practical Integration	Mo 5:00PM - 7:00PM	Mamie Harris, Jill Stewart	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 2306	Seats filled	Seats filled	10/10	0/999
Description: This course explores the intersection of human, animal, and environmental health and facilitates the understanding of health as an inexorably linked system requiring multidisciplinary collaborative efforts. The One Health concept demonstrates the importance of a holistic approach to disease prevention and the maintenance of human, animal, and environmental health. 1 - 3 units.
1604	ENVR 722 - 001 Toxicology Seminar III	We 5:00PM - 6:30PM	ILONA JASPERS	Bioinformatics Bldg-Rm 1131	1/5	Seats filled	1/5	0/999
Description: Presentations by outside invited speakers, local faculty, advanced graduate students, and postdoctoral trainees. Topics will cover all areas of research in toxicology. One hour per week. 1 units.
1179	ENVR 749 - 001 Biochemical Toxicology	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Gregory Smith	Rosenau Hall-Rm 0133	0/4	2/6	2/10	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, CHEM 430; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisites. Required preparation, one course in biochemistry. Biochemical actions of toxicants and assessment of cellular damage by biochemical measurements. Three lecture hours per week. 3 units.
14513	ENVR 753 - 001 Programming for Environmental Applications	Fr 10:10AM - 11:25AM	Greg Characklis, Timothy Weigand, YASH AMONKAR	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 1302	10/18	Seats filled	10/18	0/999
Description: Corequisite, ENVR 755. A one-credit course designed to give new graduate students the tools to apply the Python programming language to their own research and work. The course covers introductory material including the variable types and data structures and progresses to more advanced capabilities, such as regression analysis and optimization. The course is heavily focused on bi-/weekly assignments meant to reinforce the lectures and highlights basic applications in environmental science. Companion course to ENVR 755. 1 units.
1368	ENVR 755 - 001 Analysis of Water Resource Systems	MoWe 10:10AM - 11:25AM	Greg Characklis	Rosenau Hall-Rm 0230	10/15	Seats filled	10/15	0/999
Description: Permission of the instructor for nonmajors. Use of mathematical models to design and evaluate regional water supply and treatment systems. Engineering and economic methods are incorporated into quantitative analyses of regional scenarios. Social and political aspects also discussed. Three lecture hours per week. 3 units.
1182	ENVR 761 - 001 Numerical ODE/PDE, I	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Sorin Mitran	Phillips Hall-Rm 0301	1/2	Seats filled	1/2	0/999
Description: Prerequisites, MATH 661 and 662. Single, multistep methods for ODEs: stability regions, the root condition; stiff systems, backward difference formulas; two-point BVPs; stability theory; finite difference methods for linear advection diffusion equations. 3 units.
10737	ENVR 763 - 001 Mathematical Modeling I	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Greg Forest	Phillips Hall-Rm 0224	0/2	Seats filled	0/2	0/999
Description: Prerequisites, MATH 661, 662, 668, and 669. Nondimensionalization and identification of leading order physical effects with respect to relevant scales and phenomena; derivation of classical models of fluid mechanics (lubrication, slender filament, thin films, Stokes flow); derivation of weakly nonlinear envelope equations. Fall. 3 units.
1949	ENVR 777 - 001 Air Quality and Atmospheric Sciences Seminar	Mo 12:20PM - 1:10PM	WILLIAM VIZUETE, Jason West	Hooker Research Cen-Rm 0003	4/15	Seats filled	4/15	0/999
Description: This course gives students practice organizing a scientific presentation and speaking in front of an audience and promoting interdisciplinary interaction. Students will research topics and organize presentations for faculty and other students. The topics may be any aspect of air quality and atmospheric sciences. 1 units.
1826	ENVR 795 - 001 Critical issues in work, worker and workplace health	Tu 12:30PM - 3:30PM	LAURA LINNAN, Maija Leff	TBA	6/20	Seats filled	6/20	0/999
Description: This course prepares students to contribute as members of an interdisciplinary team to protect and promote workers' health. Students will learn that work is a social determinant of health and explore the context in which worker health protection/promotion practitioners work. Students will be able to summarize key regulations and policies that impact work and worker health. 3 units.
11796	ENVR 797 - 001 Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene	Tu 6:00PM - 7:00PM	LEENA NYLANDER-FRENCH, John Staley	TBA	6/20	Seats filled	6/20	0/999
Description: Provides broad understanding of industrial hygiene. Major emphasis is recognition of hazards in the workplace, evaluation of measurement of those hazards, and application of control strategies. The course will focus on introductory level industrial hygiene concepts associated with the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, control, and confirmation of control of occupational health hazards. 3 units.