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Welcome to the Environmental Studies Department!

Environmental Studies is an interdisciplinary department designed to provide you with the ability to analyze complex environmental issues from a variety of perspectives -- the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities.

The department offers an extraordinary range of opportunities for hands-on experience. Many courses quite literally immerse you in local terrestrial, freshwater, and marine habitats. Other programs take you abroad for first-hand investigation of environmental problems facing countries around the globe. Closer to home, students meet with actual decisionmakers in Washington, D.C., to discuss environmental policy.

The program prepares students for graduate study and careers in environmental science, environmental management, law, public policy, urban planning, positions with nonprofit organizations, and other fields.

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Envrionmental Studies Research with a Local Impact

Environmental Studies Professor Randy Wilson's senior research seminar probed the ecological impacts of a 455-home development planned near Gettysburg and proposed a revised design.

Students delved into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) digital mapping, land-use regulations, transportation and economic implications, drainage, and public health issues.

Alex Bigler and Matt Shank, two of the students in the senior seminar, presented the revised plans to the Butler Township board as well as traveled to Boston to showcase their work at a conference of the Association of American Geographers.

Commito named 2007 Pennsylvania Prof of Year

Gettysburg College environmental studies and biology professor John Commito was named the 2007 Pennsylvania Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the National Council for Advancement and Support of Education. He was recognized at a November awards dinner in Washington, D.C.

Former chair of the environmental studies department at the College, Commito's research on the ecology of the sea floor takes him to a number of study sites throughout the United States.

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