Graduate Students - Environmental and Water Resources
Engineering
The
Environmental and Water Resource engineering area focuses on
quantitative and qualitative aspects of marine and inland surface
waters, groundwater and wetland environments. The program allows
for study in environmental engineering, surface and groundwater
hydrology and water quality control, hazardous waste remediation,
coastal and estuarine hydrodynamics, and coastal engineering. An
interdisciplinary approach, intersecting with other departments'
related programs is encouraged.
The University of Maine is fortunate to be located in a region
having an extensive and diverse system of natural ponds, lakes
streams, and rivers. The area also has an extensive coastal region
with a 3,000 mile shoreline. This forms a labyrinth of deep water
estuaries, coves, rocky headlands, and coastal islands. The
State's future economic development will be heavily tied to the
intelligent use of its surface and groundwater as a resource in
itself and in conjunction with its forest, agricultural, fishing
and tourism industries. The vast collection of natural water
bodies in Maine provides one of the finest outdoor laboratories in
the world for basic and applied research involving the
understanding of the physical, chemical, and biological processes
that occur in natural water, and in our influence upon its quality
and quantity.
A program of study can be planned in one of the following areas:
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Environmental engineering: industrial wastes; water
supply; wastewater treatment; hazardous wastes; physical,
chemical and biological aspects of water quality; freshwater and
marine pollution control, modeling.
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Physical behavior of water: surface and groundwater
hydrology, coastal and estuarine hydrodynamics, modeling.
Environmental
and Water Resources Engineering Current Graduate Students
- Lauren Brown
- John Chandler
- Melinda Diehl
- Richard Eldridge
- David Huntress
- Bjorn Lake
- William Olver
- Rebecca Saucier
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Jennifer Weldon (PDF)
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