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Environmental Analytics
Minor

Program Overview

Environmental Analytics is about leveraging a wide array of data to solve problems that affect the health of our planet. This minor offers students the opportunity to interrogate, analyze, and interpret large earth systems data sets and derive solutions to complex environmental problems needed to ensure a sustainable future.

Program Snapshot

Program Type: Part-Time
Location: On Campus
Program Length: 24 months
Credit Hours: 24

Why This Program & What You'll Learn

Environmental data science is a rapidly growing profession of analysts who harness big data to increase understanding of earth processes, inform environmental policy, and support decision making across the geosciences.

At CMU we work on some of the largest data available and focus on applying this to resolve problems in our local communities. A wide array of companies and communities are looking for data analytics skills in candidates, particularly in addressing threats arising from environmental risk and climate change.

This program would provide additional skills and compliments undergraduate majors in Data Science, Geography, Meteorology, Geology, Environmental Science and Ecology.

Courses What Will Transfer Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Program Highlights

The environmental analytics minor focuses on preparing students to:

  • Explore and quantify geoscientific and environmental data for discontinuities, limitations or errors that may hinder analysis.
  • Analyze and visualize geoscience and environmental data using software packages that are commonly applied in both data analytics and the geoscience fields.
  • Apply temporal and spatial statistics, software program, and visualizations to interpret and describe physical processes in the geoscience and environmental sciences.
  • Communicate analytical results to diverse audiences.

Careers & Outcomes

Careers can be found in government, academic, non-profit and commercial enterprises where large amounts of environmental data are used to estimate risk, quantify environmental change, inform financial decisions and guide sustainable development.

Career Projected Salary
Data Scientist $103,500
Risk Analyst $77,435
Environmental Scientist $76,530
Atmospheric Scientist $94,570
Geoscientist $87,480
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