Environmental Science provides an integrated, quantitative, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of environmental systems. The Environmental Sciences Lab focuses on Environmental Fluid Mechanics, which is the nexus of fluid mechanics from several disciplines: "classical" fluid mechanics, civil engineering hydraulics, meteorology, oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics and environmental engineering. Our vision is to expand scientific knowledge and develop innovative strategies and technologies that will create solutions to help sustain the natural resources. The Environmental Science Lab will conduct research, develop technology, and perform analyses to understand and assess responses of environmental systems at the environment-human interface and the consequences of alternative energy and environmental strategies. We seek to understand how natural and anthropogenetic factors (e.g., global and regional change, environmental stress, and energy production and use) interact to influence environmental systems and society. Our methods integrate field and laboratory methods with new theory, computational methods, data systems and evaluation to create modeling and simulation tools. These tools involve state-of-the-art environmental databases, analyses and computation and visualization techniques.