The Environmental Science and Engineering Division (ESE) is a degree-granting academic program at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM), a top-ranked public university located in Golden, Colorado at the base of the Rocky Mountains. CSM is a world-class institution with a focus on engineering and applied science related to earth, energy, materials and environment. The current enrollment of 4,200 students includes those seeking B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees.
The ESE Program is nationally ranked for its character and quality. The programs of study are interdisciplinary in scope and designed to prepare students to investigate and analyze environmental systems as well as evaluate and design natural and engineered solutions to protect, preserve, and benefit from the earth's resources.
ESE faculty and staff are diverse in their backgrounds and expertise, spanning civil and environmental engineering, environmental chemistry, soil science, hydrology, ecology, microbiology, toxicology, and environmental law. Students in ESE also have varied backgrounds in the physical and life sciences and most engineering disciplines; they come to ESE from across the U.S. and abroad. ESE prides itself in the diversity within the Program and the strong interactions encompassing both intellectual and social aspects of the university educational experience.
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2008 Distinguished Lecture sponsored by the Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes (CESEP) at the Colorado School of Mines presents Dr Jerald Schnoor of the University of Iowa. Dr Schnoor's seminar will be on "The WATERS Network: Transforming Environmental Engineering and Hydrologic and Earth Surface Science Research through an Integrated Environmental Observing Network" The CESEP Distinguished Lecture will be Friday, April 25, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. in the CSM Student Center, Ballroom D. Lecture flyer and abstract (pdf)
Calendar Year 2007 was an exemplary year of activity and accomplishment for ESE as reflected by the following highlights:
Research awards = $5.8M
Research expenditures = $3.1M
Journal papers in print = 40; in press = 13
Abstracts associated with presentations = 82
Full conference papers published = 50
Invited talks across the U.S. and abroad = 50
Editorships = 9
Courses delivered = 38
Mines receives $5.9M for energy research funding
GOLDEN, Colo., March 18, 2008 – Colorado School of Mines will receive $5.9
million in funding for four out of 19 energy research projects selected by the
Department of Energy's Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America
(RPSEA). Funded under RPSEA's Unconventional Resources Program, the
projects will focus on increasing the supply of domestic natural gas and other
petroleum resources.“With this set of large competitive research awards to Mines, the RPSEA program
has signaled that we will continue to grow our national leadership in
unconventional fossil energy research," said Dag Nummedal, director of the
Colorado Energy Research Institute (CERI).
Two ESE Division Research Projects are part of the RPSEA Program
• Comprehensive Investigation of the Biogeochemical Factors Enhancing
Microbially Generated Methane in Coal Beds (Junko Munkata-Marr, PI)
• An Integrated Framework for the Treatment and Management of Produced
Water (Jorg Drewes, PI
ESE PhD student Jackson Lee was awarded a fully funded advanced Chinese language Scholarship to study Chinese at Suzhou University. His award was one of the first of the nationally competitive Critical Language Scholarships (U.S. State Department sponsored) to be awarded to CSM students. Jackson will spend three months this summer in China in the program.
GAANN Program Fellowships
Environmental Science and Engineering Faculty at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) have been awarded a three year grant from the Department of Education’s Graduate Assistantships in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Program. The grant will provide PhD fellowships in Environmentally Sustainable Nuclear Power (ESNP) beginning in the 2007/2008 academic year. Dr. Linda Figueroa is the program director and Drs. Honeyman and Ranville (of the CSM Chemistry and Geochemistry Dept.) are co-directors. Other program team members involved in the ESNP program are Drs. John McCray and John Spear.
Additional information on the GAANN PhD fellowships (pdf)