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­­­­DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE - FALL 2025 SCHEDULE

Notes:  Course days and times may change.  Additional courses will be added to this list, so please check the Directory of Classes and the Environmental Science Department website and follow up if you are on a waitlist.

EESC BC1001 Environmental Science lecture and EESC BC1011 Environmental Science lab are corequisites.  Sign up first for a lab section (EESCBC1011) and then get on the waitlist for lecture EESC BC1001.  You may not enroll in the lecture portion without first securing a lab section.

EEEB GU4065, Tropical Biology, taught by Dustin Rubenstein, is a field course taking place in Kenya over 16 days of Winter Break.  Costs of $2000 in fees may include airfare.  Please contact the instructor, Dustin Rubenstein dr2497@columbia.edu

EEEB GU4910, Field Botany, M. Palmer (Labs in Sept and Oct are full day with two Fri/Sat Labs). Contact the instructor, Matt Palmer, mp2434@columbia.edu for info on Lab meeting times.

*Has LAB with same course number—see schedule for time.

Be sure to contact the instructor for all Sust Dev courses that are limited in size and let them know you are an Environment and Sustainability major as preference is given to Sust Dev Majors.

• SDEV UN3366, Energy Law includes one-hour recitation/discussion—time to be arranged with students and TA’s in the Fall.  Register via waitlist, priority to Sust Dev students, so write to instructor if you are a BC Environment and Sust major.

04/11/25

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Additional information to be announced:

*Field Courses: must be applied for and have student contribution. Contact the instructor about your interest:

• EESC BC3029, Bermuda Case Studies, 3 pts, Martin Stute, Terryanne Maenza-Gmelch, has an application deadline of Friday, November 1. Info Session was Wednesday, October 9, LL001 Milstein. Funding is partially covered by Barnard, but remaining student fees to cover a portion of the costs: approx. $600, though scholarships are available for high-financial-need-students for international travel through Barnard Global. 
• EESC UN1010, Field Excursion to Death Valley, 2 pts, Fola Kolawole—open to First-Year and Sophs only—meets January - March, followed by Spring Break Field Trip, March 15-22. A spring-break excursion focused on the geology of Death Valley and adjacent areas of the eastern California desert. Discussion sessions ahead of the trip provide necessary background. Early applications advised, but due by Nov. 8. (See https://eesc.columbia.edu/content/eesc-un1010 for details). Funding is partially covered by the department, but remaining student fees to cover a portion of the costs: approx. $600.
• EESC UN3010, Field Geology (Italy), Steve Goldstein, Sidney Hemming. Students must have an interest and prior coursework in geology. If you are interested in taking this course, please email Professor Steve Goldstein and Sidney Hemming. This is a field geology course focusing on the Apennine Mountains of central Italy, where a developing “accretionary prism” (associated with oceanic crust subduction) can be observed directly. Students will learn how to interpret the evolution of paleo-environments from the sediment lithologies, textures, fossils, compositions; and the tectonic history from the present day spatial and structural relationships. The rocks range from early Mesozoic oceanic crust and sediments to late Cenozoic sediments impacted by the rise of the Alps. The course visits several classic geological localities, including the Gubbio site of the discovery that the dinosaur extinction was caused by a meteorite, a Carrara Marble quarry (favored by Michelangelo for his sculptures), evaporite sediments from the dry-down of the Mediterranean, the magnificent Frasassi Cave, and a region that suffered much damage from recent earthquakes.

Funding is partially covered by the department, but remaining student fees to cover approximate cost of airfare.

TBA:
EESC GU4210, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Time & Instructor TBD
EESC GU4235, Sea Level Change, Time & Instructor TBD

**SDEV courses have limits in size and priority given to Columbia Sustainability Majors.  All students enroll via a waitlist. We recommend you reach out directly to the instructor about your major and interest in the course.

***EAEE E4009, GIS-Research Enviro. Infrastructure Management, is open to Barnard students. Register for Wednesday’s Lab, the Thursday lab is optional. Let us know if you have trouble enrolling.

N.B. Some courses, particularly upper-level, graduate-level, and Engineering (EAEE) courses have pre-requisites. Consult the catalogue, your adviser, or the department to ensure that you’ve completed pre-requisites before finalizing your program. Courses in Environmental Health (EHSC) held at the School of Public Health campus, with the exception of P6300, have prerequisite of 2 years of Chemistry, 1 year of Biology and calc. To enroll in any International Affairs (SIPA) class, you prior approval from Dean Youngblood Giles at Beyond Barnard. Check the Directory of Classes for more info from Anthropology, Economics, Political Science, Sustainable Development, and Urban Studies or any updates we may forward to you.  If you are interested in a seminar course outside of your major, do contact the instructor and advocate as to your readiness and interest in the course.

Updated 11/04/24

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