This past semester, students in the Environmental Studies major ventured off-campus to study ecological wonders of New England. ENVI 101 (Intro to Environmental Studies) students went to Pontoosuc Lake to take water samples and analyze for things like dissolved oxygen, pH levels and living organisms that demonstrate the health of the lake. ENVI 360 (Methods of Environmental Research) students visited a local river to study wood turtles, a species of special concern. Not mention, the ENVI 460 (Ecology) students who visited the inter-tidal zone in New Hampshire to collect data for future lab work.
 A volunteer from Friends of Pontoosuc Lake observes MCLA faculty member Audrey Werner instruct her student on the use of a secchi disk. |
 Students track a wood turtle through a local river, and use MCLA’s new GPS technology to find their way out. |
 Two students sampling inter-tidal zone sea life on the coast of New Hampshire. |
Visit the Environmental Studies site to see more of the outings and learn more about the the ENVI major at MCLA.
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1 Alan Silverman // Jan 16, 2007 at 1:27 pm
My favorite part of the Environmental Studies department at MCLA is the amount of time students spend in the field. I look forward to labs knowing there’s a good chance we will be in a brook or river, on the mountain or a lake, at the seashore, or in the woods with a professor who really cares about this stuff, and enjoys teaching the subject. My time as an ENVI student at MCLA has been a lot of fun.
2 Alan Silverman // Jan 16, 2007 at 1:28 pm
There is more information about the Environmental Studies program at http://www.mcla.edu/envi/index.shtml
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