 The ESE curriculum is designed to create a foundation where students develop the knowledge and tools necessary for sustainable management of natural resources and to reduce the "ecological footprint" of human society. As an ESE graduate student you will be exposed to large-scale ecological issues (e.g. global warming, loss of biodiversity, sustainable food production) and the scientific principles that help design solutions. The ESE program aims to train practitioners (consultants, policy makers, regulators, industry) at the MS level, and researchers and educators at the PhD level. Students choose a theme, and take courses that support their theme area and unique research, which will include at least one course from seven core course areas identified within the ESE.
Check out these new courses for the 2009 Fall semester:
AGEC 52500 Environmental Policy Analysis
Instructor: Ben Gramig; bgramig@purdue.edu
TR 10:30 am - 11:45 am, KRAN G002
The course will consist of three integrated parts, beginning with a foundation of economic concepts for environmental policy analysis and management, including marginal analysis, welfare measures, property rights, policy instruments, and the jointly-determined nature of social and environmental systems. The second section of the course will take an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on faculty from a variety of colleges/schools/departments across campus to teach one week modules on applied topics/case studies that involve different scales of analysis from the local or watershed level to the national, international or global level. Students will form small interdisciplinary teams and develop their own applications or cases over the course of the semester, presenting them to the class during the third section of the course. This course is targeted at upper-level undergrads and graduate students with previous microeconomics background at the undergraduate level.
ABE 591/EAS 591: Ecohydrology
Instructor: Indrajeet Chaubey, ichaubey@purdue.edu
TTH: 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm in ABE 212
Ecohydrology links hydrological and ecological processes at various spatiotemporal scales and is considered to be one of the most exciting frontiers of future. Movement and storage of water are integral parts of landscape and ecosystem functioning. Hydrological processes in individual ecosystems and the role of water in linking the myriad components of the landscape will be explored in this three-credit hour course. Interactions between hydrological and biological processes and factors that regulate and shape these interactions will be covered. The ecohydrology principles covered will include integration of water and biota at a catchment scale, evolutionarily established resilience and resistance of ecosystems to stress, and how ecosystem properties can be used as a management tool for biodiversity, water quality, and water quantity improvement.
Prerequisite: A course in Hydrology. Students will be expected to have a basic understanding of hydrologic cycle.
EAS 59100-016 Isotope Hydrology
Instructor: Gabriel Bowen; gabe@purdue.edu
TR 10:30 am – 11:45 am, CIVL 1266
Stable isotopes and radionuclides have been used in studies of the water cycle for more than 50 years, and form the foundation of methods now commonly used for tracing hydrological fluxes, dating groundwaters, and probing the biogeochemistry of hydrological systems. This mixed-format course (~2/3 lecture, 1/3 discussion) will introduce isotopic methods used in water cycle research, with a focus on critical review of the theoretical basis for each method, and provide opportunities for group discussion of current literature employing these methods. By the end of the course, students should have theoretical and operational understanding of major methods in isotope hydrology for applications such as: quantification of large-scale recycling; evaporation/transpiration partitioning ; identifying recharge (runoff) sources and flowpaths in groundwater (surface water) systems; hydrograph separation and transit time estimation; distinguishing sources of water used by plants; groundwater dating; and reconstruction of catchment water balance (paleoclimate). Isotope Hydrology is open to all graduate students with previous coursework in inorganic chemistry and interest in the water cycle. A working understanding of differential equations will also be helpful. Basic isotopic theory and terminology will be introduced in the first two weeks of class, and previous coursework in this area is not required. Upper division undergraduates should contact the instructor if they are interested in registering for this course.
STAT 598-009/ EAS 59100-009 Trends, Extremes & Predictability
Instructor: Alex Gluhovsky; aglu@purdue.edu
TR 10:30 am – 11:45 am; CIVL 4251
This interdisciplinary course combines topics of intense development in time series analysis, extreme value theory, and nonlinear dynamics to understand predictability and other weather and climate issues.
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