New College of Florida (Sarasota, FL) - Environmental Studies

Environmental Studies

Established in the mid 1970s, New College's Environmental Studies AOC is one of the most seasoned of its sort in the nation. Our system is intended to assist understudies with concentrating on the significant issues of our time, including environmental change, ocean level ascent, nourishment security, urban situations, administering the seas, and natural protection and stewardship. 

As an understudy in our Environmental Studies program, you will work close by master personnel from twelve orders to take care of issues: testing water or soil quality, taking a gander at arrangements with respect to land and marine utilize, discovering and distinguishing obtrusive species, investigating frameworks displaying, concentrating on measurements utilized as a part of information examination and diving into ecological mindfulness. 


Our grounds sits on a varying coastline, which allows understudies to consider a broad assortment of characteristic environment right in our own specific porch, including pine flatwoods, mangroves, estuaries, straight shorelines and that is just the tip of the chunk of ice. It is in like manner a great spot to think how people, course of action and social foundations manage and bumble their environment. Here, and in various parts of Sarasota Bay, our understudies get a firsthand look at the effects of storm water overflow, sea dividers, sea grass casual cabin scarring on a waterfront circumstance. 

New College is moreover close to the freshwater wetlands, dry scours and nearby Florida environment at Myakka River State Park, and furthermore various distinctive parks and recreational domains, where understudies have induction to a living lab for their investigation. 


Additional neighboring resources join Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota Jungle Gardens, Lemur Conservation Foundation, Big Cat Habitat, Venice Wildlife Rehabilitation Center and others.

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