Earth and Environmental Sciences

    The Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) is the focal point of the collaborative research activities of the Graduate Center. It promotes interdisciplinary research, partners with GC Research Centers, Institutes and Interdisciplinary Committees, connects the research activities of CUNY faculty at the Colleges to GC research programs and seminars, and provides a home for outstanding visiting scholars to collaborate with faculty and students. ARC offers support to GC doctoral students pursuing research as well as to postdoctoral students who have completed their initial projects.

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Introduction

The Ph.D. Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES) identifies itself with promoting teaching and research in the study of the earth. With faculty in atmospheric sciences, environmental sciences, geography, and geology, EES spans a broad array of subjects focusing on the earth, its environments, human activities, and the linkages between them.

Program Inception: 1983

Specializations

Our students have the unique opportunity to study both the physical and human environments simultaneously, or to focus on specific subjects within the program's specializations.

Geography

Geography provides an opportunity to pursue doctoral studies with a diverse faculty in one of the world’s largest and most dynamic metropolitan locations. The program has six core areas: Cities and Urban Processes, Physical Geography, Globalization and Uneven Development, Productions of Nature, Geographic Information Science and Spatial Methods, and Health Geographies. Many faculty members participate in more than one core area and students are encouraged to do likewise. Students are permitted to combine courses from the Geography Specialization with those in Environmental and Geological Sciences. They are also encouraged to take courses in related disciplines—particularly Anthropology, Environmental Psychology, and Women’s Studies.

Environmental and Geological Sciences

Environmental and Geological Sciences offers research opportunities for study of the lithosphere, hydro­sphere, atmosphere, and cryosphere, and in applying combinations of such study to understand Earth’s diverse environments and their ecosystems. Faculty expertise and a full range of research facilities and state-of-the-art instrumentation support four EGS core areas: Atmospheric and Hydrologic Sciences; Terrestrial, Estuarine, and Marine Studies; Earth Materials and Earth Processes; and Urban Environments and Public Health. Because modern EGS research commonly crosses boundaries between these areas, our program emphasizes linkages between core areas, and links also with Geography.

Executive Officer

Professor Yehuda Klein
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016-4309
1.212.817.8240
Email: ees@gc.cuny.edu