Balancing Nature and Need

Environmental Science and Technology

Major

Environmental
Science and Technology

Options

Ecological Technology
and Design; Environmental
Health; Natural Resource
Management; Soil and
Watershed Science

How can we support a growing human population and still preserve and enhance the quality of our environment? Population density, agricultural industries and the Chesapeake Bay make Maryland the perfect place to study these questions.

In a world of competing priorities, it’s an increasingly important question for policy makers, citizens in general and our students

Environmental science and policy is a broad undergraduate major, drawing courses and faculty from 20 departments and four colleges

in particular. Sound scientific practices are necessary to maintain ecological balance, and so is an understanding of the technological advances, political ideologies and economical issues that influence every environmental debate.

Our Department of Environmental Science and Technology will make students partners in environmental stewardship and includes a curriculum with four areas of excellence: soil and watershed sciences, ecosystem science and management, ecological design and technology, and environmental health.

Fiction

It's too late to do anything
about polluted water or
global warming.

Fact

Environmental scientists
are always developing new
technologies to address
long-standing environ-
mental dilemmas and
prevent future problems,
including our dependence
on limited natural
resources.

Our graduates will be leaders with the expertise to influence public policy decision-makers.

Students will gain the educational and technical know-how they need to develop bio-energy systems, address global warming, remediate contaminated soils, preserve wetlands and support the plants and animals that live in our environment. Since environmental science and technology are the cornerstones of the university’s multi-disciplinary environmental research efforts, our students will find themselves immersed in these endeavors.

For more information, contact Elizabeth Weiss

Last updated: 03/9/2009