Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology at UC Berkeley
The graduate program in Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology at Berkeley emphasizes the fundamental processes that
govern the movement of air and water in the natural environment. This includes studies of the coastal ocean and estuaries,
the atmospheric boundary layer, surface and subsurface water flow, land-atmosphere interactions, the management of water
resource systems, climate change and variability, contaminant transport in the environment, and the interaction of these
and other topics.
The EFMH program typically consists of 4-5 courses in the major field (see below) and, for the Ph.D., 2 each from 2 minor
fields which are chosen according to student interest and faculty advisor recommendations. For the Masters program, no
specific minor is required, but we strongly recommend electives from the list of minors included below. We consider
undergraduate fluid mechanics (the equivalent of our CE100) and hydrology (CE103) to be prerequisites to the graduate
program, and recommend preparation in differential equations, statistics and computer programming.
Major Courses
CEE200A: Environmental Fluid Mechanics
CEE200B: Numerical Modeling of Environmental Flows
CEE200C: Transport and Mixing in the Environment
CEE202A: Vadose Zone Hydrology
CEE202B: Geostatistics and Stochastic Hydrogeology
CEE203: Surface Water Hydrology
CEE219: Contaminant Transport Processes
Examples of Minors
Mathematical Analysis (E230A,
E230B)
Numerical Methods (Math 128A,
Math 128B,
Math 228A,
Math 228B,
CS267)
Fluid Mechanics (ME260A,
ME260B,
ME 263,
ME 267)
Sediment Dynamics (EPS117,
EPS217)
Atmospheric Science (ESPM 228,
Geog 257,
Geog 142,
EPS 181,
ESPM 129)
Applied Hydrology (EPS 240,
LA 227,
ESPM 150,
ESPM290)
Statistics (Stats 200A,
Stats 200B,
EPS 120)
Environmental Economics and Policy (ER 100,
ER 120,
ER 275,
ARE 261)
Affiliated Faculty
Tina Chow
John Dracup
James Hunt
Yoram Rubin
Mark Stacey
Evan Variano
Links to research and group pages across campus
Environmental Fluid Mechanics research group at Berkeley
Air quality engineering (AQE program in CEE)
Fluid Mechanics at Berkeley
Berkeley Water Center
Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center
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