Education
B.S. Environmental Engineering,
Massachussetts Institute of Technology
M.S. Environmental Engineering,
Stanford University
M.S.E. Environmental Management,
Johns Hopkins University
Ph.D. Environmental Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University
Teaching
F&ES 730b - The Environment and Human Health (3 credits)
This course provides an overview of the critical relationships between the environment and human health. The class explores the interaction between health and different parts of the environmental system including water, indoor and outdoor air, agriculture, and food. Other topics include environmental justice, case studies of environmental health disasters, risk, urbanization, health in the workplace, and links between global warming and health.
F&ES 732a - Air Pollution (3 credits)
This course covers major air pollutants of concern, their sources, and their chemical and physical transformation in the atmosphere. Students will also learn how pollution moves through the atmosphere, including atmospheric circulation, stability classes, and inversion layers. Other topics include case studies of air pollution disasters, air quality modeling, the combustion of fossil fuels, tropospheric ozone chemistry, the impacts from air pollution, and study designs for human health and air pollution research.