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1 A Proposal to Revise the Option of Graduate Study in Environmental Science Executive Summary This proposal is aimed at revising the option of graduate study in Environmental Science within the Environmental Engineering program of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The revised Environmental Science option, to be administered jointly by the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES), will be a oneof-a-kind educational alliance in the nation, building on existing strengths and expertise within, and growing collaborations between, these departments. This alliance will contribute to the national stature of the graduate programs in these departments through acclaim for excellence in research and graduate education in emerging areas of national priority in environmental science and engineering. Moreover, collaborative activities centered on the Environmental Science option will contribute to new research synergies and funding opportunities across colleges and schools, and enhance efforts by participating departments to recruit world-class faculty and students to Vanderbilt. We envision this programmatic alliance as achieving national recognition for excellence in research and graduate education in three interrelated areas: Earth surface and subsurface system dynamics involving the intersection of engineering and geological timescales; natural and human-induced environmental hazards and associated risk management; and management and restoration of environmental systems involving coupled physical, chemical and biological elements. The Environmental Science option will be designed primarily for students aimed at the Ph.D. degree. To acquire a solid foundation for pursuing work in the areas of excellence above, their studies will involve coursework representing four knowledge and skill areas: materials the physicochemical nature of solid and fluid Earth materials; processes physical, chemical and biological processes affecting the transport and fate of materials in environmental systems; systems the dynamics of environmental systems wherein materials and processes are coupled over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales; and quantitative foundations understanding and modeling uncertainty in environmental systems, notably as this pertains to science and engineering applications. The Environmental Science curriculum will also involve a novel capstone course, team taught by faculty from participating departments, aimed at exposing students to a topic of international significance (for example, the Yucca Mountain Project) requiring application and synthesis of multidisciplinary knowledge and skills. Management of the Environmental Science study option will be shared between CEE and EES under 1

2 the joint leadership of the Director of Graduate Studies for the Environmental Engineering Program in CEE and the Director of Graduate Studies in EES. Each student s Academic Advisory Committee, chaired by the student s Research Advisor, will include members of the Graduate Faculty from both CEE and EES, appointed by the two Directors of Graduate Studies of these departments in consultation with the Chairs and the student. The Directors of Graduate Studies may serve as ex-officio members of Academic Advisory Committees on which they are not primary members. Oversight of the Environmental Science study option will be provided by a Program Advisory Committee composed of the two Directors of Graduate Studies and two members-at-large, one each from CEE and EES. The Chairs of CEE and EES will serve as ex-officio members of the Program Advisory Committee; the Director of Graduate Studies in CEE will convene and chair this Committee. We envision an aggressive recruiting campaign aimed at a rapidly growing, national pool of students from a broad range of backgrounds who are keenly interested in pursuing graduate studies in environmental science in a manner that blends Earth science and engineering perspectives at the intersection of human and geological timescales. We anticipate that the number of new students enrolling in the study option may grow to between five and 10 new students per year over a five-year timescale. Students will enter the Environmental Science option through both EES and CEE. The vision and timing of this proposed educational alliance are well aligned with research and educational priorities of the National Science Foundation and other agencies as reflected in emerging interdisciplinary funding initiatives and related national projects (e.g. the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics) that blend Earth science and engineering. We anticipate the availability of significant funding through the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Department of Energy, as well as other agencies. We anticipate the need to: (i) accommodate increased graduate enrollments and related funding requirements; (ii) modify existing courses, eliminate redundancies between departmental course offerings, and add new courses, to meet programmatic needs of the Environmental Science option; and (iii) give attention to balancing this increased emphasis on graduate education with maintaining high quality in our ongoing missions focused on undergraduate students. 1 Program Vision and Objectives Environmental science and engineering in the 21 st century involves engaging a multi-disciplinary effort in the engineering, sciences, mathematics, humanities, law and education communities that is focused on: (i) collaborative research in key areas where advances and innovations will require the knowledge and perspectives of multiple disciplines; (ii) developing and improving educational alliances among these communities; and (iii) applying multi-disciplinary expertise to problems of increasing societal importance and complexity, both in the U.S. and worldwide. The reasons for this effort are compelling. Projected population growth within the U.S. and worldwide over the next several decades will lead to demands for Earth resources, including habitable space, at unprecedented scales, and with this an equally unprecedented need for strategies and technologies aimed at achieving the sustainable use of these resources balancing utilization of resources and habitat with their protection and preservation for the long-term well-being of ecological systems and humans alike. These environmental issues, however, involve much more than the nuts and bolts of 2

3 the natural and physical sciences and engineering; they reach deeply into our very social fabric. Strategies aimed at success in addressing these issues must therefore engage these nuts and bolts of the sciences and engineering, and key areas of the social sciences and humanities, law and education. Moreover, national leadership in these issues during the 21 st century will come from individuals capable of excelling in their chosen specialties whether in science or engineering yet possessing the skills and a flare for communicating effectively across disciplines. This proposal, then, is aimed at providing an intellectual setting at Vanderbilt for educating our Nation s nextgeneration leaders in the field of Environmental Science. The Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering (School of Engineering) and Earth and Environmental Sciences (College of Arts and Science) stand poised to enter an innovative, nationally distinguished alliance through a newly refurbished option of study in Environmental Science, currently within the graduate program in Environmental Engineering. As outlined herein this study option and associated activities will achieve national recognition for excellence in research and graduate education in the science and engineering of: Earth surface and subsurface system dynamics involving the intersection of engineering and geological timescales; natural and human-induced environmental hazards and associated risk management; and management and restoration of environmental systems involving coupled physical, chemical and biological elements. These represent important core areas of engineering and Earth and environmental sciences research that intersect current, critical national research priorities. 1 Equally important, their distinguishing feature is a meshing of key elements of engineering and Earth and environmental sciences, with the recognition that environmental problems of the 21 st century will increasingly require vital perspective on how Earth s physicochemical template involving processes whose range of operative timescales is second only to cosmology simultaneously sustains and threatens life, and influences human interactions with Earth. The Environmental Science program therefore will be committed to nurturing student interests that represent the intersection of traditional and emerging engineering and Earth-science fields, championing applications of unifying themes and tools in the study of environmental system dynamics. It will be a program dedicated to a mission of training students wherein they acquire versatile, adaptable skills and are therefore poised to excel in a diversity of career opportunities in all sectors of society. Vanderbilt University is uniquely positioned to achieve this vision through its existing strengths and 1 In response to a request from the National Science Foundation, the National Research Council is currently involved in a project entitled Geological and Geotechnical Engineering in the New Millennium: Opportunities for Research and Technological Innovation (Section 5.2). The report of an advisory committee will appear later this year. Examples of priority areas that will almost certainly appear in this report and which have meanwhile been identified for a forthcoming NSF workshop on Processes-Driven Risk Assessment and Mitigation in the Context of Sustainable Development include: (i) dynamics of unstable landscapes in relation to transportation routing and land management practices; (ii) karst processes in relation to subsidence, groundwater contamination and land use; (iii) transport, storage and fate of sediment and sediment-bourne substances (including contaminants) in riverine-estuarine systems in the context of sediment and contaminant management strategies; (iv) sediment transport and storage processes in relation to river modification and restoration; (v) coastal and near-shore processes in relation to protection and management of coastal lands and wetlands; (vi) emerging technological innovations, including remote sensing and in situ sensors, for measuring and monitoring environmental, ecological and geomechanical conditions in the context of risk assessment and remediation strategies. 3

4 excellence in each of the research areas outlined above. Evolution in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering encourages exciting new cross program synergy and collaboration while maintaining the integrity of each program. This form of interdisciplinary synergy has been recognized as an essential component for program leadership in strategic planning by both the National Science Foundation and Vanderbilt. While many environmental sciences are interdisciplinary and attempt to integrate pertinent science programs such as Earth science and biology, none of the existing programs feature a close integration with environmental engineering. Rather, many, if not most, appear to be a loose association of different departments and disciplines. Furthermore, Vanderbilt is well-positioned to bring in other disciplines as the approach proposed here develops and grows. The above vision, together with the strength of the combination of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Environmental Engineering, provide the basis by which we will differentiate ourselves from our competitors and market our program. This proposal, then, describes revisions to the Graduate Program in Environmental Engineering that involve revising the current option of study in Environmental Science. The revised study option would offer paths leading primarily to the Ph.D. degree. These proposed revisions do not involve changes to the Environmental Engineering option of study, which offers both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, within the graduate Program in Environmental Engineering. 2 Background and Approach Within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt University, students currently may pursue graduate work in either Environmental Engineering or Environmental Science, leading to the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, through the Environmental Engineering graduate program. Within the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, students currently may pursue graduate work leading to the M.S. degree in Geology. In view of the intellectual opportunities presented by an educational alliance as outlined above, the two departments began in the Fall of 2003 to formally explore a joint, graduate study option in Environmental Science through the development of a curriculum involving the participation of faculty, and other resources, from both departments. A Curriculum Development Committee 2 (the Committee) was formed and charged with developing recommendations with respect to an initial course curriculum and the definition of program features and requirements. The Committee worked to define applicable degree requirements and program administration within the context of existing courses and program structures, recognizing that advancement of this proposal would result in future enhancements through alignment of future course offerings between the two departments. As part of its work the Committee also examined nationally-acclaimed programs at other universities, both to gain insight regarding ingredients of these programs that contribute to their success and to help focus the emphasis areas of this proposed alliance between CEE and EES building on our strengths while differentiating ourselves from others. 3 2 John Ayers (EES), Jim Clarke (Chair, CEE), Gene LeBoeuf (CEE), Calvin Miller (EES) and Frank Parker (CEE). 3 For example, whereas the program in Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia does an excellent job of integrating four areas geosciences, hydrology, atmospheric sciences, and ecology an environmental engineering 4

5 The recommendations described below represent an amalgamation of the recommendations provided by the Committee together with those provided by the chairs 4 of the two departments. 3 Program Elements 3.1 Expected Knowledge and Skill Areas Within the Environmental study option, four technical knowledge and skill areas will serve as the foundation for study aimed at the areas of excellence listed above (Section 1). These knowledge and skill areas are: materials the physicochemical nature of solid and fluid Earth materials; processes physical, chemical and biological processes affecting the transport and fate of materials in environmental systems; systems the dynamics of environmental systems wherein materials and processes are coupled over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales; and quantitative foundations understanding and modeling uncertainty in environmental systems, notably as this pertains to science and engineering applications. Focus on these key areas will allow students to be competitive in the academic and professional marketplace on completion of their studies, and provide them with flexibility to respond to current and future high-priority environmental research needs. We describe below (Section 4.3) the process of designing individual student programs of study consistent with these knowledge and skill areas. 3.2 Admission Targets The number of a students admitted to the Environmental Science study option will depend on availability of funding, both internal and external. Here it is particularly important that this initiative be one that adds intellectually to existing graduate programs in the two departments, rather than diverting financial and human resources from them (Section 5.2). We anticipate that the number of new graduate students enrolling in the study option may grow to between five and 10 per year over a timescale of five yeas, as related research support and interest in the program grow. A case-by-case approach to reviewing student applications is recommended, using the following target criteria as guidelines: Graduate Record Exam (GRE) a combined target verbal and quantitative score of 1300 or better and a target analytical writing score of 5 or better; and Grade Point Average (GPA) a target of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale. Other factors that will be critical in the application review include: the school(s) at which the applicant has completed prior undergraduate/graduate work; research experience while the applicant was a student or after graduation; component is absent. The Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has a curriculum that is strongly focused on environmental policy and management. The Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University lacks a strong connection with engineering. 4 David Kosson (CEE) and David Jon Furbish (EES). 5

6 the level of technical and professional maturity of the applicant and any prior experience the applicant might have (industry, government, national laboratory, etc.); and the match between the stated research interests of the student and those of faculty participating in the study option. For international students, the ability to communicate in English, both orally and in writing, is essential. Communication skills of foreign applicants will be confirmed through personal verbal communication with the applicant (for example, through a telephone interview when a campus visit is not possible) prior to admission. 3.3 Degrees and Degree Requirements The following degree tracks within the option of study in Environmental Science will continue to be offered with the accompanying requirements: M.S. with thesis 24 credit hours of coursework and acceptance of a written thesis; M.S. without thesis 30 credit hours of coursework; and Ph.D. a minimum of 39 credit hours of coursework, passage of the comprehensive examination, passage of the Ph.D. qualifying examination, and acceptance and defense of a written dissertation; 72 total credit hours are required, including coursework, transfer credit (when appropriate) and dissertation research. In addition, under the revised option of study: students will have flexibility in choosing courses from a menu of courses provided to them, with their Academic Advisory Committees (Section 4.2) insuring balance amongst the distribution (see Section 4.3 below for additional recommendations concerning direction and oversight); Directed Study research credit hours (up to 3 credit hours for MS degrees, 6 credit hours for Ph.D. degrees) may be included to meet the appropriate required total(s); and students with a Masters degree from Vanderbilt will typically be allowed to count Vanderbilt graduate credit hours toward the required total(s) subject to the approval of their Academic Advisory Committees; students entering with a Masters degree from another institution will need to complete a minimum of 24 course credit hours at Vanderbilt. 4 Program Management 4.1 Program Advisory Committee Day-to-day management of the Environmental Science study option will be shared between CEE and EES under the joint leadership of the Director of Graduate Studies for the Environmental Engineering Program in CEE and the Director of Graduate Studies in EES. Oversight of the Environmental Science study option will be provided by a Program Advisory Committee composed of the two Directors of Graduate Studies and two members-at-large, one each from CEE and EES appointed for two-year terms by the respective Chairs of these departments. The Chairs of CEE and EES will serve as ex-officio members of the Program Advisory Committee. The responsibilities of the Program Advisory Committee will be to: (i) annually review the management, operation and health of the Environmental Science study option, including recruiting efforts, student admission standards and student retention; (ii) review Comprehensive Examination 6

7 standards and procedures (Section 4.6) and the assignment of courses in the Expected Knowledge and Skill Areas (Sections 4.3 and 4.4); (iii) provide leadership in selecting and developing the focus of the annual Capstone Course (Section 4.5); and (iv); review actions of all Academic Advisory Committees (see Section 4.2 below) and, if necessary, resolve any problems or disagreements concerning these actions. The Director of Graduate Studies in CEE will be responsible for convening and chairing the Program Advisory Committee. 4.2 Selection of Academic Advisory Committee and Research Advisor Each student s Academic Advisory Committee, chaired by the student s Research Advisor, will be composed of members of the Graduate Faculty, two from CEE and two from EES, appointed by the Directors of Graduate Studies of these departments in consultation with the Chairs and the student. The two Directors of Graduate Studies may serve as ex-officio members of Academic Advisory Committees on which they are not primary members. In addition, the Directors of Graduate Studies will provide initial academic guidance to incoming students prior to the selection of their individual Academic Advisory Committees. The Research Advisor and Academic Advisory Committee for each student will be selected no later than the middle of the second semester of study. It is recognized that some students will have, prior to initial enrollment, identified faculty members with whom they wish to work based on mutual agreement between these students and the faculty members (and subject to approval by the Chairs of CEE and EES). Otherwise, students will be encouraged to discuss research opportunities with program faculty during their first semester of study, then propose possible research topics, Advisors, and potential members for the Academic Advisory Committee, to the Directors of Graduate Studies. Appointment of the Research Advisor and Academic Advisory Committee will then occur as described in the first paragraph above. In each case, the preference of the student and potential faculty Research Advisor will be key considerations. The Research Advisor serves as the primary faculty mentor and advocate for the student, and is expected to work with the student to obtain financial support, provided that the student maintains satisfactory progress. 4.3 Selection of Coursework for Individual Students and Periodic Review Each Academic Advisory Committee, in consultation with the student, will be responsible for designing a program of study, including selection of specific required coursework, for the student. Course selection will be based on: (i) the student s background, including coursework completed; (ii) the student s intended area of research; and (iii) insuring that the student has a program of study that is consistent with the Expected Knowledge and Skill Areas (Section 3.1) and the Degree Requirements (Section 3.3). Specifically, students will be advised to complete: at least two courses in each of the Areas 1 and 2 and one course in each of the Areas 3 and 4, with no double counting of courses assigned to more than one Area (denoted by an asterisk; see Appendix); the Preparation for Research in Environmental Science course (Section 4.5) in the fall semester of the student s first year (in addition to the requirements stated above); the Capstone Course in the Second year (in addition to the requirements stated above); and at least two courses from Civil and Environmental Engineering (CivE/EnvE) and two from Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEOL). Each student pursuing the Environmental Sciences study option will be required to prepare an 7

8 Academic Progress Report at the end of the Fall and Spring semesters, to be reviewed and approved by the Academic Advisory Committee, and the Directors of Graduate Studies, prior to the start of classes for the subsequent semester. 4.4 Selection of Currently Available Courses A list of currently available courses tentatively assigned to the four Expected Knowledge and Skill Areas (Section 3.1) is included as an Appendix. The assignment of courses in this list will be reviewed annually by the Program Advisory Committee (Section 4.1) as the content and emphasis of individual courses naturally evolve, and as the two departments work together to minimize redundancies in existing course offerings and develop new courses that meet the overall programmatic needs (Section 4.7). Within each of the four Areas (Appendix), courses at the level of 250 and above are listed first. (Courses with numbers of are normally assumed to be acceptable as graduate-level courses, with expectations of enrolled graduate students that are beyond those for enrolled undergraduates.) Nonetheless, in order to accommodate students with diverse backgrounds whose training is limited in certain (undergraduate) background material, we can envision that select courses could be appropriate as graduate-level courses for certain students in the Environmental Science option. For example, CivE 203 (Fluid Mechanics) could be appropriate as a graduate-level course for students with undergraduate backgrounds in Earth science pursuing graduate research related to transport phenomena in environmental or Earth-crustal systems. Similarly, GEOL 230 (Sedimentology) could be appropriate as a graduate-level course for students with undergraduate backgrounds in engineering pursuing graduate research related to the transport and fate of contaminants in riverine and estuarine systems. Similar remarks pertain to courses in Mathematics. Select courses at the level are therefore also listed (Appendix). Any level course that is approved for a student s program of study under these conditions must involve an arrangement with the instructor wherein the student undertakes and completes significant ancillary work at the graduate level. It is anticipated that EES and CEE will examine cross-listing of appropriate courses at the advanced undergraduate-graduate levels. We also anticipate that appropriate advanced courses will be added to this list (Section 4.7). 4.5 Capstone Course and Preparation for Research in Environmental Science We envision a novel capstone course as the signature of the Environmental Science study option, required for all Ph.D. students, and 8 Yucca Mountain and the Environment: The Intersection of Science, Engineering, Technology, Social Issues, Politics and Ethics Yucca Mountain is located on federally owned land on the western edge of the DOE Nevada Test Site 150 km northwest of Las Vegas, the fastest growing metropolitan area in the U.S. It is the highly controversial, intensely studied and very costly proposed site of the nation s high-level radioactive waste repository. Storage tunnels are perched above the water table, within geologically youthful volcanic strata. Concerns focus on long-term (from a human perspective millennial) protection of groundwater resources that is, maintaining contamination levels and resulting radiation hazard at an acceptably low level. Assessing potential threats to groundwater entails understanding hydrology per se and a host of engineering problems. The issue is much more complex, however, because the relevant hydrology encompasses prediction of future climate and seismic and volcanic activity, and concerns must also include predictive social science (what can we anticipate concerning human actions that might compromise the facility years in the future?). All of these issues have been addressed in numerous studies, to the satisfaction of some but by no means all of the scientific, technical and governmental communities. To the local public that is, Nevadans this is a critical issue that remains far from resolved. To the Federal Government, without an alternative for storage, fast resolution is critical.

9 A Coordinated Vanderbilt Effort Focused on Environmental Issues These efforts would nucleate around the key issues exemplified in the carefully chosen topics and field sites, as described in the text. Complementary seminars, courses and colloquia would focus on social and ethical issues surrounding the central issue(s). Joint sessions would bring would bring students and faculty together to consider the diverse scientific, applied and human perspectives and examine their interconnectedness. Numerous faculty members, representing both themselves and their programs, are favorable to this general plan of establishing an annual semester-long set of coordinated activities, linked by a common set of issues exemplified in a concrete field setting. We would anticipate broad participation and, eventually, collaboration in organization of the Capstone Course by individuals and programs representing a wide range of disciplines (Arts and Science: Anthropology, Sociology, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Economics and other natural sciences; Divinity School and Religious Studies; Peabody: Science Education, Human and Organizational Development; Law; possibly Medicine, Nursing, and The Owen School). encouraged for M.S. students, who have completed one year of work in the option. The course will focus on a highly interdisciplinary, highly visible environmental issue of global significance that is embodied in a type case about which our faculty are knowledgeable and have active or potential research interests. It will entail a field trip to the type-case site by participating graduate students and faculty and include extensive interactions with experts representing different backgrounds and viewpoints. The course focus will change from year to year. Yucca Mountain, where we have considerable faculty interest and research connections, serves as an example (Box: Yucca Mountain). We expect future sites to be both close by (e.g. causes and consequences of submergence of the Mississippi Delta; the environmental legacy of Oak Ridge) and international (e.g. Three Gorges Dam, China). Globally important topics like those we will focus on are surrounded by numerous issues that are at once fascinating and challenging in a purely scientific and engineering sense, yet which are inextricably intertwined with humanity. There is considerable interest among humanists and social scientists at Vanderbilt in how individuals and society interact with their environment. This interest currently is manifested in informal student-faculty discussions and classes and in organized, interdisciplinary efforts. For these reasons we propose to seek internal and external funding (Section 5.2) to link our efforts with faculty and graduate students in numerous departments representing most of Vanderbilt's schools, through complementary, interacting graduate seminars and courses, campus-wide colloquia featuring both distinguished visiting speakers and Vanderbilt faculty, an annual field trip that would involve a social dimension as well as scientific and technical issues, and development of a website and other materials to publicize this coordinated program within the university as well as nationally and internationally (Box: A Coordinated Vanderbilt Effort). We also propose a course aimed at Preparation for Research in Environmental Science to be attended by students and faculty participating in the Environmental Science study option, but also open to all interested individuals. The course would focus on two items: (i) presentation and discussion of current research projects of participating students and faculty, as a mechanism for familiarizing participants with ongoing research and related literature; and (ii) developing skills for preparing winning grant proposals, in general, and in areas of existing research, specifically. Students would conduct background research in their areas of interest and present oral and written versions of their grant proposals for critical review. 4.6 Comprehensive Examination Students normally will be required to take the comprehensive examination after completion of two 9

10 to four semesters of study. The Academic Advisory Committee, with input and participation from the program faculty, will be responsible for developing and administering the comprehensive examination for students pursuing the Environmental Science study option. The comprehensive examination will follow the same structure and format as the comprehensive examination for Environmental Engineering, but will be tailored to flexibly address the expected qualifications and coursework expected of students pursuing a course of study focused on Environmental Science rather than Environmental Engineering. 4.7 Course Offerings Certain redundancies of content exist among current, available courses (Appendix), for example, between GEOL 257 (Hydrogeology) and CivE 276 (Ground Water Hydrology), and between GEOL 390 (Transport Processes in Earth and Environmental Systems), EnvE 312 (Pollutant Transport in the Environment) and ChemE 230 (Introductory Transport Phenomena). These redundancies reflect historical development of these courses aimed at the different backgrounds and goals of students in the two departments. Similarly, attention to should be given to modifying certain courses to broaden the applications of the material covered in them (e.g. fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, biological processes, etc.). As part of jointly instituting the Environmental Science the two departments will commit to minimizing unnecessary redundancies in existing courses, modifying certain courses to better accommodate the different backgrounds and interests of students, and develop new courses that meet overall programmatic needs. We anticipate that this process will be enhanced with continued hiring of new faculty in the two departments. 5 Students and Funding 5.1 Sources of Potential Students We believe that there is a rapidly growing, national pool of students who are keenly interested in pursuing graduate studies in environmental science, particularly in a vein that blends Earth science and engineering perspectives at the intersection of human and geological timescales. From the Earth-science side this includes students who find appealing the idea of applying perspectives of deep time to provide context for the behavior of environmental systems whose dynamics concern society at engineering timescales. Such applications involve, for example, Earth-surface dynamics, geomorphology, sedimentology, structural geology and stratigraphy, volcanic processes and hazards, biogeochemistry and paleoecology. From the engineering side this includes students who find appealing the idea of characterizing the behavior, including risk and reliability, of systems where natural and designed components interact over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, including deep time. Topics include, for example, dynamics of unstable landscapes, surface and subsurface transport and fate of sediment and contaminants, river modification and restoration, and coastal processes in relation to management of coastal lands and wetlands. We anticipate that the Environmental Science study option will draw a small number of wellprepared students from the existing degree programs in Earth and Environmental Sciences (B.A., M.S.), Civil and Environmental Engineering (B.E., M.S. in Environmental Engineering) and Chemical Engineering (B.E., M.Eng., M.S.). We envision that students will enter the Environmental Science study option through both Earth and Environmental Sciences and Environmental Engineering. 10

11 More generally, we intend to recruit students from a broad range of backgrounds, commensurate with undergraduate degrees in the Earth sciences, environmental science, environmental engineering, chemical engineering and related areas such as physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics. This is based on the belief that, because of the interdisciplinary appeal of the Environmental Science option and of the opportunities it will afford them, students from these disparate backgrounds will not only be game to pursue coursework and research that might be outside their background areas, but also excel in their graduate studies precisely because they will bring the freshness of a range of backgrounds to their work. As the program develops and expands in areas that are not initially represented, e.g. ecology, additional sources of students will emerge provided they have the quantitative skills that our program will require of them. An important task that goes with this revision of the Environmental Science study option is the undertaking of an aggressive recruiting campaign. This should be aimed at prospective students in a variety of programs (Earth science, engineering, and related areas) at schools worldwide. Attention should be given to identifying current and potential feeder schools as well as target schools (e.g. schools that have an environmental science culture wherein students are exposed to the idea of environmental science as a viable, appealing option for graduate study). This campaign should also involve the design of a website dedicated to the Environmental Science option, and other aggressive recruiting activities similar to those currently in place for existing graduate programs in the two participating departments. Students completing their studies in Environmental Science will be competitive in the academic and professional marketplaces. Those completing the Ph.D. with cross-disciplinary skills gained in the program will be particularly well suited for academic positions, and for research positions in national labs (e.g. DOE) and service organizations (e.g. U.S. Geological Survey, EPA, NOAA), as well in the private sector. 5.2 External Sources of Funding The vision and timing of the educational alliance proposed herein are well aligned with research and educational priorities of the National Science Foundation. This is directly reflected in NSF s recent request to the NRC to examine and assess national challenges and emerging research opportunities involving the intersection of engineering and geoscience, which led to the current NRC project Geological and Geotechnical Engineering in the New Millennium: Opportunities for Research and Technological Innovation. 5 An important outcome of this assessment will be a blueprint that will help set priorities in core programs at NSF as well as lead to new, special funding initiatives. In addition, several other national activities are notable in that they likewise embody growing efforts to blend components of Earth and environmental science and engineering, and present a view of where NSF and other agencies are likely to invest in the future. These include, for example, the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED), the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM), and the Community Sediment Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS). We moreover note that, at the request of NSF, plans are currently underway for hosting a workshop at 5 In the context of the educational alliance proposed herein it is notable that the objectives of this NRC project include: (i) assessing major gaps in the current states of knowledge and practice in the field of geoengineering; (ii) providing a vision for the field of geoengineering, addressing societal needs that include infrastructure, homeland security, urban sprawl, traffic congestion, and environmental degradation and new directions [that] would improve geoengineering in ways that will better help meet these needs; and (iii) exploring ways for achieving this vision including opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration. 11

12 Vanderbilt entitled Processes-Driven Risk Assessment and Mitigation in the Context of Sustainable Development, 1 which is explicitly aimed at assessing collaborative research opportunities involving Earth science and engineering. Currently there are numerous core programs and focused initiatives at NSF that represent viable opportunities for funding. Among these are several core programs within the Earth Sciences (EAR) organization (Geobiology and Environmental Geochemistry, Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics, Hydrologic Sciences, and Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology), several core programs within organizations in the Engineering (ENG) Directorate (Bioengineering and Environmental Systems, and Chemical and Transport Systems), and several special initiatives (Collaboration in Mathematical Geoscience, GeoEnvironmenal Engineering and GeoHazards Mitigation, Mathematical Sciences: Innovations at the Interface with the Sciences and Engineering, and Biocomplexity in the Environment: Integrated Research and Education in Environmental Systems.) We anticipate that initially the bulk of external funding will come from NSF, with additional funding from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Department of Energy (DOE) through its Office of Science. As well, there is merit in recruiting self-funded, organizationally sponsored candidates from the National Laboratories. 6 Impact on the Sponsoring Departments We envision administering the Environmental Science study option within the existing structures of the sponsoring departments. Numerous, positive impacts of this program on EES and CEE have been articulated throughout this document and center on its being a one-of-a-kind educational alliance in the nation that will contribute to the national stature of the graduate programs in these departments, contributing to new research synergies and funding opportunities across colleges and schools, and enhancing our efforts to recruit world-class faculty and students to Vanderbilt. We anticipate that this study option will have several more pragmatic effects. These include needing to accommodate increased graduate enrollments and related funding requirements, both in terms of numbers of students and course enrollments. This also will involve an increase in the average number of students supervised per faculty. We will need to examine how to best modify existing courses, and add new courses, to meet programmatic needs of the study option. This will also require attention given to balancing this increasing emphasis on graduate education with maintaining high quality in our ongoing missions focused on undergraduate students. Appendix: Course Distribution in Expected Knowledge and Skill Areas (* Courses assigned to more than one group may not be double counted; Section 4.3) Area 1: Materials the physicochemical nature of solid and fluid Earth materials *GEOL 260 Geochemistry GEOL 320 Aqueous Geochemistry EnvE 271 Environmental Chemistry 12

13 ChemE 311a-311b Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics GEOL 225 Earth Materials *GEOL 226 Petrology *GEOL 230 Sedimentology *GEOL 231 Stratigraphy *CivE 203 Fluid Mechanics Area 2: Processes physical, chemical, and biological processes affecting the fate and transport of materials in environmental systems GEOL 257 Hydrogeology GEOL 260 Geochemistry GEOL 261 Geomorphology GEOL 264 Methods in Environmental Geology GEOL 315 Igneous Petrochemistry and Petrogenesis GEOL 390 Transport Processes in Earth and Environmental Systems CivE 276 Ground Water Hydrology EnvE 270 Environmental Thermodynamics, Kinetics, and Mass Transfer EnvE 272 Biological Unit Processes ChemE 230 Introductory Transport Phenomena ChemE 312a Transport Phenomena I ChemE 312b Transport Phenomena II ChemE 317 Physiological Transport Phenomena MechE 325a Advanced Fluid Dynamics I MechE 325b Advanced Fluid Dynamics II MechE 348 Convection Heat Transfer GEOL 226 Petrology GEOL 230 Sedimentology GEOL 240 Structural Geology and Rock Mechanics CivE 203 Fluid Mechanics CivE 212 Hydrology CivE 226 Introduction to Environmental Engineering CivE 227 Biological Unit Processes 13

14 Area 3: Systems the dynamics of environmental systems wherein materials and processes are coupled over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales GEOL 279 Problems in Sedimentology and Paleobiology CivE 275 Environmental Risk Management CivE 279 Economics and Law of Air and Water Resources EnvE 264 Environmental Assessments EnvE 269 Radiological Aspects of Environmental Engineering EnvE 275 Environmental Risk Management EnvE 273 Environmental Characterization and Analysis EnvE 300 Water Quality Management EnvE 312 Pollutant Transport in the Environment GEOL 220 Life Through Time GEOL 231 Stratigraphy Area 4: Quantitative foundations understanding and modeling uncertainty in environmental systems, notably as this pertains to science and engineering applications GEOL 322 Environmental Applications of Geochemical Modeling CivE 290 Reliability and Risk Case Studies CivE 307 Finite Element Analysis CivE 310 Probabilistic Methods in Engineering Design CivE 313 Advanced Reliability Methods CivE 259 Geographic Information Systems ChemE 310a Applied Mathematics in Chemical Engineering I ChemE 310b Applied Mathematics in Chemical Engineering II MechE 275 Introduction to Finite Element Analysis MechE 343 High-Performance Computing for Engineers MATH 204 Linear Algebra MATH 208 Ordinary Differential Equations MATH 216 Probability and Statistics for Engineering MATH 218 Introduction to Mathematical Statistics MATH 218L Statistics Laboratory MATH 219 Introduction to Applied Statistics 14

15 MATH 247 Probability MATH 248 Mathematical Statistics MATH 226 Introduction to Numerical Mathematics MATH 229 Advanced Engineering Mathematics 15

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