Both environmental science and environmental engineering offer dynamic academic and career opportunities that focus on understanding the natural world and developing sustainable solutions for global ...

Environmental engineers are the technical professionals who identify and design solutions for environmental problems. They seek to shield the environment from the harmful effects of human activity, ...

Environmental data scientists use computing and mathematics to develop sustainable solutions for environmental problems. Environmental data scientists balance and combine expertise from multiple ...

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Studying environmental science can open the door to many different career paths, from research, conservation and sustainability work to public policy and law. To reflect its interdisciplinary nature ...

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Research on the human dimensions of global change concerns human activities that alter the Earth's environment, the driving forces of those activities, the consequences of environmental change for ...

This initiative will create the Center for Environmental Data Science to leverage existing ESF resources to address institutional weaknesses, and to be responsive to emergent data science themes being ...

East Carolina University geological sciences faculty members led nine undergraduate students — mainly STEM majors from colleges and universities across the United States — through an immersive, ...

Scientific research in Antarctica has played a key role in many important discoveries of the past century. But it has also come at a considerable cost to the environment. Science in Antarctica is ...