Education

Examines Earth’s climate system; distribution of temperature, precipitation, wind ice, salinity, and ocean currents; fundamental processes determining Earth’s climate; energy and constituent transport mechanisms; climate sensitivity; natural climate variability on interannual to decadal time scales; global climate models; predicting future climate. Offered: jointly with ESS 587/OCEAN 587.

Oceanic and terrestrial biogeochemical processes controlling atmospheric CO2 and other greenhouse gases. Records of past changes in the earth’s carbon cycle from geological, oceanographic, and terrestrial archives. Anthropogenic perturbations to cycles. Develop simple box models, discuss results of complex models. Offered: jointly with ESS 588/OCEAN 588; W.

The health risks of climate change are multiple and range across the public health space. Addresses current and projected health risks of climate change and the policies and measures to manage these risks as the climate continues to change. Offered: jointly with ENV H 518; W.

This course surveys the field of planning for managing risks of natural hazards — earthquakes, floods, coastal/meteorological hazards and human-caused technological hazards and terrorism. It covers pre-event mitigation through building and land-use controls; disaster preparedness; post-event response, recovery and mitigation of future hazards. The curriculum emphasizes hazard mitigation as a long-term strategy for achieving community resilience.

Provides an overview of how to plan, design, construct, and manage high performance building infrastructures. Topics include integrated project delivery, green building rating systems, green building design codes and energy standards, measurement and verification of building performance, and retrofitting existing building through building energy audit. Prerequisite: CEE 307. Offered: A.

Overview on how to plan, design, construct and manage high performance building infrastructures. Topics include integrated project delivery, green building rating systems, building energy modeling, indoor environmental qualities, and green building economics. Prerequisite: Graduate Standing Offered: S.

Focuses on energy infrastructure, including site selection, permitting, design, construction, and maintenance. Includes electrical production facilities as well as transmission, focusing on permitting and construction of renewable energy facilities. Covers renewable energy infrastructure, emphasizing wind, solar, and geothermal. Offered: A.

Covers the nature of global climate systems, global warming, ozone depletion, and human influences. Introduces tools to evaluate current and alternative energy production and conversion options for transportation. Explores the nexus between transportation and energy in the context of climate change adaptation and mitigation. Offered: W.

This course explores the supply and delivery of carbon-based fuels, including petroleum, natural gas and coal balanced with content that explores the benefits of renewable energy sources. Examine energy resources, the generation and delivery of energy to meet demand, and emerging federal and global policies on climate change and their potential impacts on energy demands and supply. The course also reviews the history of energy regulation, exploring its influence on utility business practices. Students will gain a better understanding of the complex societal challenges that produces safe and reliable energy infrastructure and the need to adapt to changing energy markets.

The networking of control systems for critical infrastructures – such as the power grid, gas and electric pipelines, and water systems – has had unintended consequences. The enormous potential for disruption of these networks poses a major threat to our society. This course covers the complexities and subtleties of telecommunication and computer infrastructures and their interrelationship with other critical infrastructures. It also examines these systems’ vulnerabilities to environmental damage, hackers and terrorists. Explore ways to maintain confidentiality, integrity and availability of data both before and after disasters strike.

This course emphasizes water as a systems element and how the supply of water is dynamic. Explore how water, especially fresh water, is a chemically unique and limited resource. Students learn about these special properties, how distribution of water is changing as our climate changes and what the consequences are of these changes. Gain insight into intergovernmental policy, programs and relationships and their effect on water and water supply, as well as how to apply risk management and risk reduction techniques to water problems.

This course focuses on the intersection of private and public health systems that are most relevant for coping with critical events. The course looks at the history of public health, the underlying science of epidemiology as a driver of public health decision making, and examines the distinct cultures of private health care, public health and emergency services with emphasis on the interrelation and existing communication channels between the sectors and how they coordinate in times of emergency. Government funding and issues of balancing ongoing public health needs against emergency preparedness is covered as well as how the public health system might adapt for future climate induced scenarios.

Combines data science and computational social science in a policy studies structure. Introduces algorithmic thinking and develops good practices in reproducibility for professional work in policy research.

Provides students outside of CSE with a practical knowledge of software development that is sufficient to do graduate work in their discipline. Modules include Python basics, software version control, software design, and using Python for machine learning and visualization.

This course explores geospatial data processing, analysis, interpretation, and visualization techniques using Python and open-source tools/libraries. We will explore fundamental concepts and real-world data science applications involving a variety of geospatial datasets.