Environment and Sustainability Program|

Madilyn Fletcher, Director

Gwendelyn Geidel, Assistant Director and Undergraduate Director

Joseph M. Quattro, Graduate Director

Faculty	Faculty from Other Departments
Overview	Programs and Courses
Admission	Website

Overview

The Environment and Sustainability Program (formerly the School of the Environment) within the School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment, has multidisciplinary teaching, research, and outreach programs which are focused on present and future environmental concerns. These programs promote efficient, environmentally safe use of both natural and man-made resources; safeguard the health of humans and other species; and promote public policy, planning, management, and business as avenues for improvement of the environment. Special interests are: environmentally safe use of natural resources; sustainable development; geohazards; assessment and use or mitigation of hazardous, or environmentally sensitive, man-made materials or processes; use and protection of hydrologic systems, marine systems, and the coastal zone; and preservation and protection of ecologically sensitive or specially designated areas. The program draws on interdisciplinary strengths of its associated faculty in various departments and institutes of the University as well as on collaborative arrangements with other universities, public agencies, and the private sector.

The Program offers the Master of Earth and Environmental Resources Management (M.E.E.R.M.) degree and the J.D./M.E.E.R.M. dual degree, which are administered by a coordinating committee to assist students in developing programs of study with the school’s associated faculty. Collaborative projects with the public and private sectors are encouraged.

Admission

Applicants must meet all requirements of The Graduate School for admission and be accepted by the Environment and Sustainability Program. Attention will be given not only to the applicant’s academic record but also to relevant scientific and administrative experience.

A signed and dated application, with all requested information supplied.
Official transcripts showing all college-level course work attempted and the award of the baccalaureate or higher degree by an accredited college or university. A GPA of 3.00 or higher on a 4.00 scale is preferred. Official transcripts verifying all previous college-level course work are required for the University’s records. To be considered official, transcripts must be sent directly from the institution to The Graduate School or delivered in a sealed envelope bearing a registrar’s stamp.
Two letters of recommendation.
A satisfactory score on the GRE, taken within five years of applying. LSAT and GMAT scores will also be accepted. Applications for the GRE and the GMAT can be obtained from The Graduate School or from the Educational Testing Service, Box 955, Princeton, NJ 08540. Applicants from western states should write the Educational Testing Service, 1947 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94704.
International applicants whose native language is not English are also required to submit a satisfactory score on the TOEFL or the IELTS Intl. Academic Course Type 2 exam. The minimum acceptable score on the TOEFL is 80 (Internet-based). The minimum acceptable overall band score on the IELTS Intl. Academic Course Type 2 exam is 6.5.
In addition to The Graduate School’s admission requirements, the Environment and Sustainability Program requires a 1-2 page letter of intent, making clear to us why you wish to study with us. This can be emailed directly to: meerm@environ.sc.edu
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Requests for further information should be addressed to: Graduate Director, Earth and Environmental Resources Management Program, Environment and Sustainability Program, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208; e-mail, GradDirector@environ.sc.edu or meerm@environ.sc.edu

Faculty from Other Departments

The following Environment and Sustainability Program faculty have appointments in other departments and are listed below by these affiliations.

College of Arts and Sciences

Department of Anthropology

Laura Cahue, Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2001

Joanna L. Casey, Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1993

Kenneth G. Kelly, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1995

Thomas L. Leatherman, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1987

Gail E. Wagner, Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis, 1987

Department of Art

David W. Voros, M.F.A., Indiana University, 1994

Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences

Dennis M. Allen, Ph.D., Lehigh University, 1978

Wendy B. Allen, M.Ed., University of South Carolina, 1980

James T. Morris, Ph.D., Yale University, 1979

Department of Biological Sciences

Ronald H. Benner, Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1984

Berten E. Ely III, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1973

Madilyn Fletcher, Ph.D., University of North Wales, 1975

Bob Friedman, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 2002

Travis C. Glenn, Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1997

Brian S.T. Helmuth, Ph.D., University of Washington, 1997

Austin L. Hughes, Ph.D., Indiana University, 1984

David E. Lincoln, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, 1978

Lazlo Marton, Ph.D., Jozsef Attila University, 1976

James T. Morris, Ph.D., Yale University, 1979

Timothy A. Mousseau, Ph.D., McGill University, 1988

John B. Nelson, Ph.D., Florida State University

Sean Place, Ph.D., University of California Santa Barbara, 2005

Jay L. Pinckney, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1992

Joseph M. Quattro, Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1991

Tammi Richardson, Ph.D., Dalhousie University (Canada) 1996

Roger H. Sawyer, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1970

Stephen E. Stancyk, Ph.D., University of Florida, 1974

Sarah A. Woodin, Ph.D., University of Washington, 1972

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

John Ferry, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1996

Scott R. Goode, Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1974

Timothy J. Shaw, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1988

Earth Sciences and Resource Institute

Robin (Buz) Kloot, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 2005

John M. Shafer, Ph.D., Colorado State University, 1979

Michael Waddell, M.S., University of South Carolina, 1982

Department of English

James Barilla, Ph.D., University of California, Davis

Abner Keen Butterworth, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1970

Paula R. Feldman, Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1974

Christy Friend, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1997

Laura Dassow Walls, Ph.D., Indiana University, 1992

Department of Geography

Gregory J. Carbone, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1990

Edward R. Carr, Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 2002; Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2001

David J. Cowen, Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1971

Susan L. Cutter, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1976

Kirstin Dow, Ph.D., Clark University, 1996

Jean T. Ellis, Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2006

William L. Graf, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1974

Michael E. Hodgson, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1987

L. Allan James, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1988

Robert L. Janiskee, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1974

John R. Jensen, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1976

John Kupfer, Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1995

Jerry T. Mitchell, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1998

Cary J. Mock, Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1994

Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences

Claudia Benitez-Nelson, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999

Subrahmanyam Bulusu, Ph.D., Satellite Oceanography, National Oceanography Center (formerly Southampton Oceanography Center), University of Southampton, England, 1998

Arthur D. Cohen, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1968

Gwendelyn Geidel, Ph.D., J.D., University of South Carolina, 1982, 1989

Venkat Lakshmi, Ph.D., Princeton University, 1995

Robert C. Thunell, Ph.D., University of Rhode Island, 1978

Raymond Torres, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1997

George Voulgaris, Ph.D., University of Southhampton, UK, 1992

Scott M. White, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2001

Alicia Wilson, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1999

Alexander E. Yankovsky, Ph.D., Physical-Mathematical Sciences/Geophysics, Marine Hydrophysical Inst., Sevastopol, USSR (now Ukraine), 1991

Department of History

Kendrick A. Clements, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1970

Thomas M. Lekan, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999

Robert R. Weyeneth, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1984

Department of Mathematics

Douglas B. Meade, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1989

Robert C. Sharpley, Ph.D., University of Texas, 1972

Hong Wang, Ph.D., University of Wyoming, 1992

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Joseph E. Johnson III, Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1968

Department of Political Science

Ann Bowman, Ph.D., University of Florida, 1979

Mark E. Tompkins, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1981

David P. Whiteman, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1980

Laura Woliver, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1986

Department of Religious Studies

Kevin Lewis, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1980

Christopher O. Clement, Ph.D., University of Florida, 1995

Department of Statistics

Don Edwards, Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1981

Environmental Systems Research

Jeremy Cothran, Programer/Developer, The Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine & Coastal Sciences

Dan Ramage, Programmer/Developer, Environment and Sustainability Program

Longleaf Environmental Learning Center

Amy Weinmeister,M.S., University of Georgia, 1998

SC Lowcountry Center for Humans and Nature

Bruce C. Coull, Ph.D., Lehigh University, 1968

William K. Bailey, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1976

College of Education

Stephen Thompson, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 2002

College of Engineering and Computing

Department of Chemical Engineering

Michael D. Amiridis, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1991

Thomas A. Davis, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1967

Francis A. Gadala-Maria, Ph.D., Stanford University, 1979

Michael A. Matthews, Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1986

Branko N. Popov, Ph.D., University of Zagreb, 1972

James A. Ritter, Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1989

John W. Weidner, Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1991

Ralph E. White, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1977

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

M. Hanif Chaudhry, Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 1970

Joseph Raymond V. Flora, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 1993

Kenneth W. Harrison, Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 2002

Jasim Imran, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1997

Anthony S. McAnally, Ph.D., Auburn University, 1989

Michael E. Meadows, Ph.D., University of Tennessee, 1976

Charles A. Pierce, Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1998

Richard P. Ray, Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1983

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Michael N. Huhns, Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1975

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Abdel E. Bayoumi, Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1982

Jamil A. Khan, Ph.D., Clemson University, 1988

Jeffrey H. Morehouse, Ph.D., Auburn University, 1976

Walter H. Peters, Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1978

School of Law

Cinnamon Carlarne, J.D., University of California at Berkeley, 2001

Kim Diana Connolly, J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1993

Joshua Eagle, J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1990

David Linnan, J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 1979

College of Mass Communications and Information Studies

Sonya F. Duhé, Ph.D., University of Missouri, 1993

Moore School of Business

Jason Murray, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2007

Kathleen M. Whitcomb, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1989

Douglas F. Woodward, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1986

School of Medicine

Department of Cell and Developmental Biology and Anatomy

Charles A. Blake, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1972

Clarke F. Millette, Ph.D., Rockefeller University, 1975

Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Alvin Fox, Ph.D., University of Leeds, 1976

Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neuroscience

Matthew B. Wolf, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1967

Arnold School of Public Health

Department of Environmental Health Sciences

G. Thomas Chandler, Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 1986

Alan W. Decho, Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 1987

Charles E. Feigley, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1978

Dwayne E. Porter, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1995

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

James R. Hebert, Sc.D., Harvard University, 1984

Andrew B. Lawson, Ph.D., University of St. Andrews, UK, 1991

Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Elaine M. Frank, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1988

USC Aiken

Department of Biology and Geology

Andrew R. Dyer, Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1996

Sarah Michele Harmon, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 2003

William A. Pirkle, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1972

Harry E. Shealy Jr., Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1972

Garriet W. Smith, Ph.D., Clemson University, 1981

USC Beaufort

Department of Biology

Joseph L. Staton, Ph.D., University of Louisiana, 1992

Department of Business Administration

Davis Folsom, Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1979

USC Sumter

Division of Science, Mathematics, and Engineering

Pearl R. Fernandes, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1993

USC Upstate

Division of Natural Sciences and Engineering

Julian W. Green, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1988

Earth and Environmental Resources Management

Coordinating Committee

Gwendelyn Geidel

L. Allan James

Walter H. Peters III

Dwayne Porter

Mark E. Tompkins

Alicia M. Wilson