(Administered by the New Jersey Institute of Technology [NJIT] departments of chemical engineering, chemistry, and environmental science. Participating departments at Rutgers-Newark are biological sciences and earth and environmental sciences.)

Degree Programs Offered: Master of Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Both degrees are offered jointly by NJIT and Rutgers-Newark.)

Director of Graduate Programs and Adviser (NJIT): Somenath Mitra, Room 332, York Center for Environmental Engineering and Science  (973-596-5611; email: somenath.mitra@njit.edu)

Graduate Programs Coordinator and Adviser (Rutgers-Newark): Alexander Gates, Room 137, Smith Hall (973-353-5034; email: agates@andromeda.rutgers.edu)

Website: http://geology.newark.rutgers.edu

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Environmental Science Division (NJIT):

Distinguished Professors:

Joseph W. Bozzelli; Ph.D., Princeton

Gordon A. Lewandowski; D.Eng.Sci., Columbia

Robert Pfeffer; Ph.D., New York

Kamalesh K. Sirkar; Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana)

Professors:

Piero Armenante; Ph.D., Virginia

Basil C. Baltzis; Ph.D., Minnesota

Lev N. Krasnoperov; D.Sci., Moscow; Ph.D., Novosibirsk (Russia)

Priscilla Nelson; Ph.D., Cornell
Earthquake engineering and geotechnical engineering

Howard D. Perlmutter; Ph.D., New York

Angelo J. Perna; Ph.D., Connecticut

John S. Schuring; Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology
Environmental and geoenvironmental engineering

Sam S. Sofer; Ph.D., Texas (Austin)

Associate Professors:

Lisa Axe; Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology
Environmental and geoenvironmental engineering

Robert B. Barat; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nancy Jackson; Ph.D., Rutgers
Coastal geomorphology 

Dana E. Knox; Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Somenath Mitra; Ph.D., Southern Illinois

Research Professor:

Henry Shaw; Ph.D., Rutgers

Rutgers-Newark:

Professors:

Alexander E. Gates; Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Structural geology; tectonics; radon

David Kafkewitz; Ph.D., Cornell
Microbiology

Lee Slater; Ph.D., Lancaster (UK)
Environmental geophysics and geophysical hydrogeology

Judith Shulman Weis; Ph.D., New York
Marine biology

Associate Professor:

Yuan Gao, Ph.D, Rhode Island
Ocean-atmosphere interactions; air pollution

Assistant Professors:

Evert Jan Elzinga; Ph.D., Delaware
Environmental soil chemistry

Claus Holzapfel; Ph.D., Gøttïgen (Germany)
Community ecology, plant population, and community processes

Kristina M. Keating; Ph.D., Stanford
Near surface geophysics

Adam Kustka; Ph.D., Stony Brook
Physiology and biogeochemistry

Karina V.R. Schafer; Ph.D., Duke
Ecology and global climate change

Assistant Research Professor:

Dimitrios Ntarlagiannis; Ph.D., Rutgers
Near surface geophysics and biogeophysics