Alumni Speaker Series [Recording] Dr. Trevor Needham, Ph.D.'19, & Haley Hartney '19, M.S. '20 We had a great conversation with Trevor Needham, Ph.D.'19,  environmental engineering and Haley Hartney '19 chemical engineering, M.S. '20, environmental engineering on Tuesday, November 2, 2021 as part of the Alumni Speaker Series

The recording is available to those with UMBC credentials. 

Speakers

Trevor Needham, Ph.D.'19,  environmental engineering.
Trevor Needham is a Hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in the Maryland Water Science Center. His work and research focus on the fate, transport, and remediation of legacy organic contaminants in the complex environmental systems. He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (2019), a M.S. of Environmental Engineering from the University of Missouri Science and Technology (2011), and a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Scranton. Additionally, he serves as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Reserve assigned as an Adjunct Faculty for the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.  He is married to his wife Becky for 14 years and has four children: John Paul (13), Clare (10), Joshua (9), and Kolbe (3).

Haley Hartney '19 chemical engineering, M.S. '20, environmental engineering 
Haley Hartney is a Project Manager for the Environmental Compliance department at NAVFAC in DC.  She manages the environmental projects for Marine Corp Base Quantico in all of the major media types including wastewater, storm water, air, hazardous waste, and storage tanks. Haley 
graduated from UMBC in December 2019 with a BS in Chemical Engineering and in May 2020, with an MS in Environmental Engineering. 

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UMBC is seeking applicants in the following areas for urban environmental work:

Masters Student Traineeships - iCARE

The iCARE NRT master’s degree is a 2-year interdisciplinary degree program with a dual mission of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice combined with research focused on improving the health of Baltimore Harbor as a socioecosystem. Students will be mentored by a UMBC faculty member and a non-academic scientist from a government agency, non-profit, or industry. That research team will be embedded in a larger stakeholder team, meaning that each student and their mentors will identify one or more community members (non-scientists) with a stake in the research to be engaged in the research from development to completion. 
 
Students will also be taking skills courses (community leadership, DEIJ, oral and written communication) and disciplinary courses appropriate to their research project. 

Graduate students in our program will follow a two-year schedule that includes a series of professional and disciplinary courses, plus a research project that will comprise their master’s thesis. For the research project, students will be mentored by a team that includes at least one faculty member and one partner practitioner working on projects related to the Baltimore Harbor and surrounding environments.
 
Student Benefits Include:
  •  $34,000 annual stipend, full tuition coverage, fees, & health insurance.
  •  Up to $7,500 in research expenses.
  •  Mentoring and networking with employers across the environmental sector.
Students should apply to any of the five main departments at UMBC affiliated with the program: Biological Sciences; Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering; Geography and Environmental Systems; Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences; or the School of Public Policy. They should also separately complete a short application to the ICARE program, available to view on our website here: https://icare.umbc.edu/application/.

Here is a link to a series of slides that describes what each of the ICARE faculty do especially with respect to the ICARE master's program.

Please pass this information on to prospective students and encourage them to contact us and complete the ICARE Interest Form.

Students need to apply to their respective program at this link and complete a supplemental ICARE NRT application by January 1, 2022 for the Fall 2022 cohort.
 
Potential Environmental Engineering Mentors: 
  • Lee Blaney - contaminants of emerging concern & resource recovery 
  • Upal Ghosh - analysis and remediation of toxic pollutants in soils and other environments
  • Brian Reed - removal of inorganic contaminants from the aqueous phase by activated carbons
  • Christopher Hennigan - Processes governing atmospheric chemistry and aerosol pollution
  • Claire Welty - quantify and predict the urban hydrologic cycle and coupled biogeochemical cycles from neighborhood to regional scales
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Masters Student Traineeships - iCARE

The iCARE NRT master’s degree is a 2-year interdisciplinary degree program with a dual mission of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice combined with research focused on improving the health of Baltimore Harbor as a socioecosystem. Students will be mentored by a UMBC faculty member and a non-academic scientist from a government agency, non-profit, or industry. That research team will be embedded in a larger stakeholder team, meaning that each student and their mentors will identify one or more community members (non-scientists) with a stake in the research to be engaged in the research from development to completion. Students will also be taking skills courses (community leadership, DEIJ, oral and written communication) and disciplinary courses appropriate to their research project. Students complete requirements for the program while earning a degree from UMBC in Biological Sciences, Environmental Engineering, Geography & Environmental Systems, or the cross-campus Marine Estuarine Environmental Science (MEES) program. Students need to apply to their respective program at this link and complete a supplemental ICARE NRT application by January 1, 2021 for the Fall 2021 cohort.


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The ICARE NRT Master’s Degree Program in community-engaged environmental science and social justice is now accepting applications. ICARE supports students performing research focused on improving the health of Baltimore Harbor as a socioecosystem. For best consideration, please complete the online application process by January 1, 2021! 

ICARE is a 2-year master’s degree that you will receive from one of five departments or programs at UMBC, so you will submit two applications: 

  1. Graduate School application for the department or program of your preferred faculty mentor. 
  2. ICARE program specific application
Both links are available on our application portal, and it does not matter which application you submit first. 

Note, however, that departments/programs may have their own, unique deadlines. 

Environmental Engineering Master's Program application is due January 1, 2021.

The ICARE program will begin reviewing applicants after January 1, 2021. Also worth noting is that the ICARE program will be running for the next 5 years, and plans to train 3 cohorts of students, earning degrees in 2023, 2024, and 2025.

Please browse the ICARE website for links to potential UMBC faculty mentors (All Environmental Engineering, ENEN, Faculty are potential faculty mentors), their research interests, potential thesis projects (more coming soon!), and other helpful information, including the application portal.

ICARE looks forward to hearing from you!


If you have any questions about the Environmental Engineering Program email cbegrad@umbc.edu. 

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