Love the outdoors? When you study Applied Ecology and Environmental Sciences at Michigan Tech you'll have the natural world at your fingertips — literally. Michigan Tech is located in one of the Eastern U.S.’s largest expanses of forest that includes over 5,000 acres of research forest. Your classes are hands-on and field-oriented, combining analytical and problem-solving skills with advanced technology. You can conduct research in a variety of areas including bat habitat, molecular genetics, satellite imagery, invasive species, wolf-moose ecology, and global climate change (just to name a few!).
So here are a few things you should know about the applied ecology and environmental sciences program…
- Lab sessions take place in one of the largest contiguous forested areas in the eastern United States.
- All incoming undergraduates are offered a $1,000 work-study opportunity to participate in research.
- Researchers from the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science are involved in the longest running predator/prey study.
- The Fall Practicum is conducted at Michigan Tech’s research forest, which is over 5,000 acres, where students live for 14 weeks.
- Students have VIP access to the Comprehensive Geographic Information System labs.
As an applied ecology and environmental sciences student at Michigan Tech, you’ll get the chance to work on awesome projects. The rapidly growing Forest and Environmental Resource Management enterprise team (FERM ™) or The Rhizotron, an underground process research lab, are just two options for hands-on projects just for students like you.
With an undergraduate degree in applied ecology and environmental sciences you could be working in the private sector or for state natural resource departments or U.S. government agencies.
Learn more about applied ecology and environmental sciences at Michigan Tech!
