Indiana University

INDIANA UNIVERSITY (IU) is public university internationally known for the quality of its academic programs, which attracts students from all over the world. IU plays a key role in the economic and social well-being of Indiana residents, offering educational, cultural, and financial benefits to the state. The University consists of eight campuses: the original campus in Bloomington, which is a residential campus; an urban campus in Indianapolis, which also includes the IU Medical Center; and six regional campuses in Gary, South Bend, Fort Wayne, Kokomo, Richmond, and New Albany. IU offers a total of 963-degree programs for undergraduate and graduate students at its statewide campuses.

The School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) offers Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Science. Fields of expertise include global warming, global climate change, carbon sequestration, and conservation of forests, coral reefs, wildlife, and watersheds. The SPEA also houses several centers of excellence in research. Distinguished Professor, Ronald A. Hites is the director of the Environmental Science Research Center. The goals of the center are to promote excellence in environmental science research and to foster increased interdisciplinary collaboration among environmental science faculty on the Indiana University-Bloomington (IUB) campus. The center does not offer degree programs. Its activities include seminars, discussion groups, and proposal preparation workshops.

Dr. Hans Peter Schmid Professor and Director of Graduate Studies is also Director of the Institute for Research in Environmental Science (1RES). His research interests include biosphere-atmosphere interactions, exchange of CO2, water vapor and energy between forests and the atmosphere, boundary layer meteorology, boundary layer development over complex surfaces, surface-atmosphere exchange over inhomogeneous surfaces (observation and modeling), spatial aggregation modeling of turbulent fluxes, modeling of subgridscale variability in terms of surface texture, source area/footprint modeling for turbulent flux, and experimental design and measurement of turbulent surface-atmosphere exchange processes.