Welcome to the Environmental Science
Graduate Program!

There is strong world demand for scientists, technologists, and engineers with multi-disciplinary training to confront the need for a healthy environment as the global human ecological footprint expands.

We offer interdisciplinary MS and PhD degrees in environmental science and achieve a greater than 95-percent placement rate in industry, higher education, and government for our graduates.  Our internationally recognized faculty and the world-class facilities provide our diverse and international student body with top scientific training and professional development opportunities.

Although a hallmark of our program has been thesis-producing MS and PhD degrees touching the interaction of environments with agricultural pressures, we provide diverse training opportunities at the human-environment interface, including a non-thesis option and several distance-education courses.

If you are already part of the expanding world of environmental science or are thinking of steering your career toward this exciting, interdisciplinary field, we think that our program will serve your needs.

         John A. Downing, Professor & Chair

Applying to Environmental Science

Applicants should have completed an undergraduate or Master's degree in one of the biological, chemical, physical, or engineering sciences.

The following link provides complete information about applying to the program.

http://www.ensci.iastate.edu/grad/applying.html

For more information, contact enscigradoffice@iastate.edu

Find Out More

Download a free electronic brochure with more information about Environmental Science.

The work of Jacek Koziel, EnSci faculty member and associate professor of Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering, was recently featured on an episode of Modern Marvels, a History Channel program highlighting applications of technology in contemporary society.  Dr. Koziel's work focuses on the character- ization and mitigation of odors gener- ated by livestock operations.  The episode may be viewed online at Modern Marvels.

Priority Recruiting Areas
for Fall 2012 Admissions

For Fall 12 entry, Environmental Science is seeking highly qualified applicants who are interested in the following research areas:

• controls on phytoplankton community structure (MS or PhD)
• carbon processing by eutrophic ecosystems (MS or PhD)
• regional variations in water chemistry (MS or PhD)
• lake nutrient budgets (MS or PhD)
• energy & biofuel production by aquatic ecosystems (MS or PhD)
• application of remote-sensing data in monitoring changes in water content & crop growth in agro-ecosystems (PhD)
• use of remote-sensing data to evaluate the predictive value of agriculture-climate models (PhD)
• marine climate change & paleoclimate (PhD)
• stable isotope geochemistry in biogenic archives (PhD)

For more information, please contact:

EnSci Graduate Program Office

Charles R. Sauer
Program Coordinator
109 Bessey Hall (office)
253 Bessey Hall (campus mail box)
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa  50011-1020  USA

voice:  515.294.6518
fax:  515.294.1337
e-mail:  enscigradoffice@iastate.edu