Jointly administered by the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) (Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemistry, and Department of Environmental Science) and Rutgers–Newark (Department of Biological Sciences and Department of 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 Adviser (Rutgers–Newark): Lee Slater, Room 138, Smith Hall (973-353-5019; email: lslater@rutgers,edu)

Website: http://www.ncas.rutgers.edu/ees

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 Professors:

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)
Near-surface geophysics

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

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

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