环境过程集中于对保持气-陆-水环境质量至关重要的现象，概念和技术。在康奈尔大学的土木和环境工程计划中，对有益于人类和自然环境的令人振奋的解决方案的研究得到了扩大，深化和丰富。环境过程的专业化要求了解影响保护公众健康和环境所需的工程设施的规划，设计和运营的生物学，化学和物理现象。专业领域包括环境中的污染物命运，水和废水处理。
The Environmental Processes faculty focus on advancing fundamental knowledge and developing sustainable technologies that can contribute to the paradigm shifts needed to face the most urgent environmental challenges facing human societies such as energy/resources crises and climate change.<br>We train our students to develop the skills and ability to apply multi-disciplinary tools and more sustainable approaches for reducing detrimental environmental and health impacts resulting from chemical and biological contaminants. Our faculty are experimentalists and modelers exploring fundamental changes to earth system processes and elemental cycling, the fate and transformation of emerging chemical and microbiological contaminants, the eco-evolutionary dynamics of spatially-structured populations, and the recovery of valuable resources from waste streams. We are also technological innovators, developing monitoring tools and sustainable treatment and recovery technologies to protect public health from exposure to chemical and biological contaminants and new processes for producing clean energy carriers.