Department of Earth Sciences
School of Science
Indiana University~Purdue University, Indianapolis

Earth and Water Resources
Understanding interactions between land, soil, and water is critical to ensuring environmental quality. The Earth and Water Resources concentration provides students with a quantitative background in soils, hydrogeology, and biogeochemistry and an understanding of biological interactions, processes affecting soil and water resources, and advanced analytical techniques related to environmental quality assessments. Students can pursue detailed course work in either the Water or Earth options of this concentration and are prepared for continued advanced study or careers in government, industry, and environmental consulting.

For additional information about earth and water resources, you can visit the Center for Earth and Environmental Science at IUPUI.

Earth and Water Resources concentration
18 credits

• CHEM-C 341 Organic Chemistry I 3 cr.
• GEOL-G 431 Wetland Ecosystems 3 cr.
• GEOL-G 486 Soil Biogeochemistry 3 cr.
• GEOL-G 445 Analytical Methods for Natural Systems (capstone requirement) 3 cr.

and

a) Earth Resources option

• GEOL-G 406 Introduction to Geochemistry 3 cr.
• and BIOL-K 356 Microbiology 3 cr.
• or SPEA-E 410 Intro. to Environmental Toxicology 3 cr.

b) Water Resources option

• GEOL-G 451 Principles of Hydrogeology 3 cr.
• and SPEA-E 455 Limnology 4 cr.
• or SPEA-E 410 Intro. to Environmental Toxicology 3 cr.

* indicates new course, pending approval for bulletin listing

Core Requirements

Core Requirements

Program Concentrations