Doctor's degree Environmental Sciences and Policy - Duke University

Doctor's degree Environmental Sciences and Policy from Duke University is a Campus Ph.D Enviroment degree that prepares you for a Science career. The graduate program in Environment (known as ENV), administered by the division of Environmental Sciences and Policy (ESP), is distinctive in its interdisciplinary approach to research related to natural resources and the environment. The ESP division includes a group of 28 regular-ranked faculty members with training in biological, physical, chemical and social sciences and jointly work on a wide range of applied and basic environmental research problems. Graduate students in ENV are actively engaged in research at the forefront of environmental sciences in collaboration with faculty who are leaders in their respective fields. Most ENV student interests lie in one of four research areas: Ecosystem Science and Management, which emphasizes conservation biology, landscape ecology, wetland ecology, forest ecology, soil science , biogeochemistry, and watershed hydrology; Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology, which emphasizes the fate and effects of natural and anthropogenic stressors, particularly chemicals, in the environment; Aquatic and Atmospheric Sciences, which concentrates on problems spanning natural divisions of the biosphere- soils, plants, lakes, watersheds, and the atmosphere, and Environmental Social Sciences , which emphasizes the management of natural resources and the environment by individuals and societies. One attribute of graduate training in ENV is that students may choose to (i) narrow their field by focusing on disciplinary topics, or (ii) integrate multiple themes in their research work. The program strives to encourage such research flexibility by not requiring core course work and instead requiring an identification of tentative faculty mentor(s) at the time of admission and the formation of PhD committees by the second year in the program. View more details on Duke University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Enviroment courses.