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School of Earth & Sustainability

Email:
SES.Admin​@nau.edu
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Environmental Chemistry

Environmental chemistry studies the processes controlling the distribution and availability of chemical species within the earth’s critical zone.  Combining chemistry, hydrology, hydrogeology, soil science, mineralogy, and microbiology, environmental geochemists examine processes including soil chemistry, chemical weathering, solute transport and deposition, and biological uptake and release to track the movement of nutrients and contaminants around the earth’s surface.

nau students study geochemistry near a waterfall

Who we are

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Faculty and research staff Accordion Open

  • Laura Wasylenki – environmental geochemistry of metals, paleoceanography, metal stable isotopes
  • James Sample – tectonics, geochemistry, geoscience education
  • Roderic Parnell – hydrogeochemistry, river restoration (Emeritus)

Collaborators Accordion Closed

At NAU
  • Water Management, Policy & Science

For students

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Degree programs Accordion Open

  • Bachelor’s degree (BS) in Environmental Sciences or Geology
  • Master’s degree (MS) in Environmental Sciences & Policy or Geology
  • PhD in Earth Sciences & Environmental Sustainability, with an emphasis in Earth Systems or Climate & Environmental Change

Graduate-level courses Accordion Closed

  • CHM 440/ENV 430 Environmental Chemistry
  • GLG 570 Geochemistry: Earth as a Chemical System
  • GLG 575 Environmental Geochemistry
  • GLG 575 Stable Isotope Geochemistry

School of Earth & Sustainability
Location
Room A108 Building 11
Ashurst
624 S Knoles Dr
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
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