During the current COVID-19 outbreak, the EAES Department Office is closed to the public. However, the Department may be contacted by emailing eaes@montclair.edu or calling 973-655-4448. For general information regarding the University’s response to the outbreak, consult the Coronavirus website.
Montclair State University hosted the
Middle States Division American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
The Department of Earth and Environmental Studies offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in Geography, Earth and Environmental Science, Sustainability Science, certificate programs in Water Resource Management, Geographic Information Science and Remote Sensing, and Environmental Forensics, and teaching certification in Earth and Environmental Sciences. In addition, we house the University’s interdisciplinary PhD Program in Environmental Science and Management which hosts a weekly seminar, the Sustainability Seminar Series. Our programs emphasize strong foundations in natural, physical, and social sciences, foster critical thinking and communication skills, and incorporate cutting edge field, laboratory, and computational methods.
The Department houses a nationally and internationally recognized faculty who excel at integrating teaching and research. Faculty research programs are supported by the National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, New Jersey Sea Grant, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Environmental Research and Education Fund, the International Ocean Discovery Program, among many others. These programs allow our students to participate in national and international collaborative research programs throughout the contiguous United States and Arctic Alaska, Antarctica, Argentina, China, India, Latin America, and Vietnam. Our recent graduates are employed in environmental consulting and geo-engineering firms, K-12 and higher education institutions, community, state, and federal government agencies, and have been accepted to highly competitive doctoral programs in the US and abroad.
Professor presents at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory's Earth 2 Class (E2C) workshopDr. Stefanie Brachfeld's presentation, brought the Antarctic Southern Ocean to New York on December 14, 2019.Thursday December 19, 2019
Graduate alum conducting sediment disposition study on the Savannah RiverApril Kelly MS Earth & Environmental Science '17, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Geologist, is part of a team conducting this study which should be completed in January 2020.Wednesday November 13, 2019
Students win top prizes at AAG regional meetingThe Middle States American Association of Geographers held their regional meeting, where multiple student posters were recognized.Monday October 21, 2019
Sigma Xi seeking climate change researchersThursday July 25, 2019
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We take great pride in including our graduate and undergraduate students in our field programs and teaching them to collect and analyze their own data using state of the art instrumentation and data processing software.
| Name | Title | Location | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huan Feng | Chairperson (Acting) | Center for Environmental & Life Sciences, 422 | 973-655-7549 | fengh@montclair.edu |
| Patti Ann Flatley | Secretarial Assistant III/Non-Steno | Center for Environmental & Life Sciences, 220 | 973-655-4448 | flatleyp@montclair.edu |