Introduction to Postgraduate Majors

Majors eligible for conferring doctoral and master's degree include Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Groundwater Science and Engineering, Hydrology and Water Resources, and Geological Resources and Engineering. Majors eligible only for conferring doctoral degree include Environmental Economics and Environmental Management.

1. Environmental Science

Training objectives:

Doctoral degree recipients should master fundamental theories and systematic in-depth expertise in the field of environmental science; and be able to undertake scientific research and teaching independently, solve major practical problems, and make innovations in science or techniques.

Master’s degree recipients should master fundamental theories and necessary expertise in the field of environmental science; have an interdisciplinary background and the ability to innovate and undertake scientific research, planning, and management independently; be competent to conduct teaching and scientific research in environmental science in colleges and universities, conduct scientific research in research institutes, work in governmental departments, or manage day-to-day operations in enterprises and companies; or pursue a doctoral degree.

Duration: 3 Years

Research Directions and Content:

(1) Environmental Chemistry:

Existence, form distribution and transformation, behaviors on environmental interfaces, photochemical behaviors, and other migrating and transformative behaviors of pollutants in multimedia environmental systems under multi-polluted conditions.

(2) Environmental Pollution Control Technology:

Basic theories and techniques of environmental pollution control, and basic principles and techniques of polluted environment remediation.

(3) Ecological Environment System and Digital Management:

Water environment and healthy water resources, global environmental change and regional response,construction of ecological environment information systems,and ecological environment protection and remediation techniques, etc.

(4) Environmental Planning and Assessment, Environmental Economics:

Environmental planning and assessment; theories and technology of environmental economics,  including environmental planning, environmental impact assessment, environmental resources accounting, pollutant rights trading, ecological compensation, low-carbon economy, and circular economy, etc.

2. Environmental Management and Environmental Economics

Training Objectives:

Graduates should master fundamental theories and systematic in-depth expertise in the field of environmental science; and be able to undertake scientific research and teaching independently, solve major practical problems, and make innovations in science or techniques.

Duration: 3 Years

Research Directions and Content:

(1) Environmental Planning and Management:

Theories and techniques of environmental planning and management, including environmental planning, ecological environmental planning, environmental management policies and models, environmental impact assessment of construction projects and planning, and sustainable development, etc.

(2) Environmental Resources Accounting and Low-carbon Economy:

Theories and techniques of environmental economics, including environmental resources accounting, pollutant rights trading, ecological compensation, economic loss assessment of environmental pollution damage, resource assessment, low-carbon economy and circular economy, etc.

(3) Environmental Information System:

Application of environmental theories and 3S technology in the access, development, and integration of environmental information;design and management of information systems; and other theories and technologies including environmental monitoring and evaluation, environmental protection and governance, and ecological remediation.

3. Environmental Engineering

Training Objectives:

Graduates should grasp the development trends of environmental engineering and master fundamental theories and systematic in-depth expertise in the field of environmental engineering; be able to undertake scientific research and teaching independently, and make innovations in science or techniques; have some knowledge and skills of engineering management, and the capacity to solve major practical problems; have a broad international perspective; be proficient in at least one foreign language (able to read academic literature in said language) ; and have skills of academic writing and competence in international academic exchanges.

Duration: 3 Years

Research Directions and Content:

(1) Contaminated Site Control and Remediation:

Control and remediation of various types of contaminated soil and groundwater, including contaminated site investigation, risk assessment, risk management, remediation techniques, and the development and application of remediation materials, especially in-situ physical, chemical and biological remediation techniques.

(2) Water Treatment Technology and Water Resources Utilization:

Theories and techniques of treatment of drinking water, urban wastewater, and special industrial wastewater, and water resources utilization via biological, physical and chemical methods; design, commissioning, and operation management of water pollution treatment engineering.

(3) Solid Waste Treatment and Utilization:

Geological treatment modes of solid waste, characterized by theories of containment, attenuation,  and bioreactor landfills; and pollution control of solid waste.

(4) Environmental Biotechnology:

Mechanisms, processes, and efficiency of contaminated water and soil bioremediation ; research and development of biological agents and products; transformation of biological waste resources; and ecotoxicological effects of nanomaterials and pollutants.

(5) Environmental Materials and Equipment:

Research and development, performance evaluation, and application of new materials for water pollution treatment; research and development, performance evaluation, and engineering design of related treatment equipment based on the progress and research results of modern water treatment technology.

4. Groundwater Science and Engineering

Training Objectives:

Doctoral degree recipients should master fundamental theories and systematic in-depth expertise in the field of groundwater science and engineering; be able to independently undertake scientific research and teaching, solve major practical problems, and make innovations in science or techniques; be proficient in at least one foreign language (able to read academic literature in said language);and have skills of academic writingand competence in international academic exchanges.

Master’s degree recipients shouldhave a scientific spirit to seek truth and innovate; master fundamental theories and systematic in-depth expertise in the field of groundwater science and engineering; possess necessary experimental and computer skills; be able to undertake scientific research and technical work independently; keep abreast of the progress and trends in the discipline; be capable of solving scientific problems in the field and come up with new insights; be proficient in at least one foreign language and able to use it in research; be physically fit; and have necessary hands-on experience.

Duration: 3 Years

Research Directions and Content:

(1) Search, Evaluation and Management of Groundwater Resources:

Regional groundwater circulation modes and hydrochemical evolution mechanisms under the combined influence of man and nature; occurrence and enrichment laws of groundwater resources and relevant exploration and evaluation techniques; theories and methods of joint operation for surface water and groundwater; and combined simulation and scientific management of surface water, soil water, and groundwater.

(2) Environmental and Ecological Effects of Groundwater Development and Utilization:

Formation mechanisms and control technologies of environmental, geological and ecological effects in the process of groundwater development and utilization; development and storing technologies of back-up freshwater resources; and theories, early warning models, and response mechanisms of groundwater resources safety guarantee.

(3) Control and Remediation of Groundwater and Soil Contamination:

Investigation evaluation, pollution control and remediation of groundwater and soil contamination, especially the control and treatment of contaminated soil, the vadose zone and groundwater; existence forms and migration and transformation laws of pollutants in the vadose zone and groundwater; control theories and methods of pollutant diffusion; remediation and treatment technologies of contaminated sites or underground aquifers.

(4) Theories and Application of Underground Energy Development and Waste Disposal:

Mechanisms of multiphase fluid flow, water-rock-gas interaction, solute and heat transfer, and stress field changes in deep underground media; development of multi-field coupling simulation programsamong the seepage field, temperature field, chemical field, and stress field for geological disposal of CO2, nuclear waste, and changes in water, heat, salt, and stressduring underground energy development; as well as the impact of the above processes on the underground environment.

5. Hydrology and Water Resources

Training Objectives:

Doctoral degree recipients should master fundamental theories and systematic in-depth expertise in the field of hydrology and water resources; be able to undertake scientific research and teaching independently, solve major practical problems, and make innovations in science or techniques; be proficient in at least one foreign language (able to read academic literature in said language); and have skills of academic writing and competence in international academic exchanges.

Master’s degree recipients shouldhave a scientific spirit to seek truth and innovate; master fundamental theories and systematic in-depth expertise in the field of hydrology and water resources; possess necessary experimental and computer skills; have necessary hands-on experience; be able to undertake scientific research and technical work independently; keep abreast of the progress and development trends in the discipline; be capable of solving scientific problems in the field and come up with new insights; be proficient in at least one foreign language and able to use it inresearch.

Duration: 3 Years

Research Directions and Content:

(1) Modern Water Resources Evaluation and Management:

Theories and techniques of the survey, evaluation, and sustainable utilization of water resources; joint operation for water resources utilization; digital groundwater systems and digital water resources systems.

(2) Water Environment and Water Ecology:

Processes, mechanisms, simulation and regulation of water environment systems; negative ecological and environmental effects in the development and utilization of water resources and the solutions.

(3) Control and Remediation Simulation of Water and Soil Environment:

Soil and water contamination simulation, e.g. establishing computer models to simulate the migration process of pollutants in the environment; theories and methods of pollution control; and pollution remediation measures.

(4) Hydrological Forecasting and Hydrological Modelling of Basins:

River flood forecasting, mid-and long-term runoff forecasting, and drought/flood prediction in basins; hydrological modelling of basins and hydrological cycle simulation; climate change and hydrological responses of basins, etc.

6. Geological Resources and Engineering

Training Objectives:

Students are trained according to the development trend of new energy to address the development needs in national economy, and to meed the demand for specialized talents in teaching, research, technology development, engineering application, and operation and management in the field of underground new energy, so as to help implement China’s national strategy of developing emerging industries. Graduates should be engineering specialists with an interdisciplinary background that allows them to undertake basic research, development of engineering technology, engineering design, optimization, and production management in the field of deep underground new energy. They should also haverichhands-on experience in engineering, and the ability to make technological innovations.

Duration: 3 Years

Research Directions and Content:

(1) Geothermal Energy Development and Utilization:

Deep underground geothermal accumulation mechanisms and detection technology; high-temperature well-drilling and thermal storage reconstruction; microseismic monitoring and tracing simulation; geothermal recharge and key technologies of sustainable development of geothermal resources; multi-field coupled numerical simulation, evaluation and forecasting technologies of geothermal development and utilization.

(2) Natural Gas Hydrate Development:

Quantitative research on natural gas hydrate accumulation mechanisms and geological processes of accumulation; hydrate exploitation experiment under one-dimensional and three-dimensional whole systems; fidelity sampling; marine gas hydrate productivity simulation-optimization coupling technology; coupling evaluation technology of wellbore and formation stability in the condition of hydrate exploitation.

(3) CO2 and Energy Storage:

Interaction mechanisms between water, rock, gas, heat, mechanics, and microbes in the storing system; software and technology for multi-field coupling of geological storage and utilization of CO2; evaluation and prediction of geological storage of CO2 under multiple constraints.