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  • Baja 2015!

    Sixteen students chose to devote their Spring Break to study the natural history of Baja California Sur with Dr. John Farnsworth and Dr. Roger Luckenbach. Lisa McMonagle '15 shares her experience.

  • William Burke '13, Environmental Science - WET track

    William worked on a Cumulative Environmental Impact Assessment and a GIS project in Nicaragua with ESS professors Iris Stewart-Frey and Chris Bacon. He co-authored a peer-reviewed article and is currently a graduate student in Geography at Indiana University.

  • Faculty Summer Plans

    For ESS faculty, summer is not really time off—it’s time when we can focus on our scholarship without the distractions of teaching.

  • Congratulations Chris, Virginia, and Leslie!

    ESS faculty members Chris Bacon, Virginia Matzek, and Leslie Gray were recently awarded tenure and/or a promotion.

    ESS faculty members Chris Bacon, Virginia Matzek, and Leslie Gray were recently awarded tenure and/or a promotion.

  • Scholarships available for ENVS Baja class

    ENVS's popular Natural History of Baja California class will be offered in Winter quarter 2017, and now there will be scholarship assistance for students with documented financial need.

  • The International Path to SCU

    What inspires international students to come to SCU? Environmental science and economics major Mingfei Xiong ’18 shares his experience.

  • Class of 2017

    Congratulations to our Environmental Studies & Sciences graduates

  • Leslie Gray

    Leslie Gray gave the keynote speech at a workshop organized by the U.N.

  • Martin Perez '18

    Martin Perez is working with ESS faculty on environmental health issues in Nicaragua and Santa Clara County.

  • Apply NOW for Baja course 2019!

    ENVS/BIOL 144, Natural History of Baja, is a unique course featuring a 10-day camping and kayaking expedition to Baja California and the Sea of Cortez.

  • Abigail Suster

    Environmental Studies major traveled to India with SCU's Global Fellow program to work with the Green Rhinos Program

  • Kimy Grandi Soriano

    Environmental Studies major traveled to Bolivia with SCU's Global Fellow program to work with Boliva4Ward

  • Teresa Schofield

    Environmental Science student researched sea star wasting disease (SSWD) with Dawn Hart of the SCU Biology Department

  • Amanda Bostwick '15

    Environmental Studies graduate working as a Peace Corps volunteer in Guinea helping to eradicate malaria

  • Lauren Cloward

    Environmental Studies graduate studying food and water security and smallholder resilience in the Central Plateau region of Burkina Faso

  • The REAL Side of Data

    REAL student Andrew Bake ‘20 used data to illustrate how climate change is affecting Nicaraguan farmers on the ground.

  • A Passion for Marine Science

    Environmental Science major Fiona Mulhern ’21 got the opportunity to study marine biology as a research assistant funded by the REAL program.

  • Conducting Research in the Suisun Marsh

    Michael Weatherford ’23, a lifelong lover of the outdoors, participated in a research opportunity through the REAL program where he got to conduct field work in the Suisun marsh.