ESE UCLA Environmental Science and Engineering Program

Faculty
As an interdepartmental program, the ESE Program draws on faculty from twelve different departments across the UCLA campus. Participating faculty represent departments from the College of Letters and Science, School of Public Health, School of Engineering and Applied Science, School of Law, and School of Public Policy and Social Welfare. Many of the participating faculty have national and international stature in their respective fields.

Dr. Richard F. Ambrose
Restoration ecology, especially for coastal marine and estuarine environments, wetland ecology, long-term ecological monitoring, ecological impacts of contaminants in coastal habitats.

Dr. Linwood Pendleton
Economics of the environment. Estimation of the economic impact of coastal water pollution in Southern California. Analysis of the potential economic value of major improvements in the collection, modeling and dissemination of oceanographic data from remote and local coastal ocean observing systems. Development of a non-market values database for the National Ocean Economics Project.

Dr. Mel Suffet
Aquatic chemical analysis and fate of hazardous chemicals or chemicals causing off-odors in the environment or during water or water reuse treatment. Effect of humic substances (natural organic matter) on pollutants - MTBE, nitrosoamines, PCBs, pesticides, pharmaceuticals.

Dr. Arthur Winer
Field-based air pollutant exposure assessments ; Development and application of regional human exposure models; Biogenic hydrocarbon emissions and their role in photochemical air pollution.

Paul Rosenfeld, Ph.D., Intern Field Advisor
Research interests are in contaminant transport, exposure and toxicity in aquatic ecosystems and international environmental management and policy.

Associated faculty
Additional participating ESE Program Faculty hold primary appointments in other UCLA departments, including engineering, the physical and biological sciences, urban planning and policy and other social sciences. Together with the rest of the faculty of the EHS Department and faculty from across the UCLA campus, they bring to the ESE Program a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, knowledge and research skills. Associated faculty teach many of the courses taken by ESE students and assist with student advising and research.