Environmental Programs
At UMBC you will have the opportunity to be on the forefront of environmental research. Using your research skills and coursework, you may explore patterns of human impact on both global and local environments and participate in the search for solutions to some of our most pressing problems. Our graduate students study spatial patterns of air quality as well as the science of severe storms; water quality and the treatment of drinking water as well as floods in the urban landscape. Working with UMBC faculty you can engage in research on how to remove toxic contaminants, or study how green infrastructure may help to reduce the quantity and improve the quality of urban runoff. You can study the impacts of road salt on food webs in urban streams; the growing global extent of human-dominated ecosystems; the relationship between cultural patterns and the genetics of crop plants in Africa; or the relationship between land use and regulatory policy and environmental consequences right here in Maryland.
If you have an interest in exploring, affecting and improving the global environment, if you are curious about how geographic information science informs our environmental policy, or wish to investigate atmospheric radiation and it’s impact on global climate change, UMBC has the graduate program for you.
Advanced degrees are available in:
- Geography and Environmental Systems
- Geographic Information Systems
- Civil Engineering (with an emphasis on environmental engineering)
- Marine-Estuarine Environmental Sciences
- Atmospheric Physics