Allegheny Environmental Science and Sustainability students
We’ll set the stage for your success through hands-on opportunities. You’ll acquire the skills necessary to positively impact both the natural world and the humans who call it home.
Our environmental science and sustainability students expand their skills through internships, research with faculty, community engagement, study away, and more.
Studying in the Field
Allegheny’s Bousson Environmental Research Reserve spans 283 acres of woodlands, ponds, streams, wetlands, and native wildlife — presenting rich opportunities for student-faculty research.
Our students also study in the field at many other spots near campus, including:
- Allegheny National Forest
- Erie Wildlife Refuge
- Geneva wetlands
- Presque Isle and Pymatuning State Parks
- Tamarack Lake
- Woodcock Creek Lake
Recent Internships
Second Nature Climate Program
Support ongoing resilience and climate justice work
Gettysburg National Park Trail
Employ geographic information systems to create detailed maps of trails at the park
Watershed Conservation Research Center
Conduct research in our local watershed, French Creek
On-Campus Garden
Spend the summer growing and caring for our on-campus garden.
Internship at Creek Connections
Creek Connections has forged an effective partnership between Allegheny College and regional K-12 schools to turn waterways in Northwest Pennsylvania, Southwest New York, and the Pittsburgh area into outdoor environmental laboratories. Emphasizing a hands-on, inquiry based investigation of local waterways, this project annually involves over 40 different secondary schools and the classes of 50 teachers.
Recent Senior Comps
The Senior Comp is the culmination of four years of experience, imagination, and study. It is the moment when you demonstrate what you’ve learned by teaching us something new.
Road Salt Effects on Freshwater Ecosystems in the Northeastern United States
The Banana Plantation Project in Costa Rica: Uncovering Social Reali ties through Postcolonial Ecocriticism
BaSCOT: Battery and Solar Capacity Optimization Tool Using OR-Tools
The Impact of Spatial Resolution on Land Cover Mapping: A Small Watershed Case Study
Global BIPOC Climate Activism vs. Mainstream Environmentalism: A Case Study
The Plight of Poecilotheria: Promoting Positive Attitudes Towards Tarantulas Through Wildlife Education
Recent Research
A selection of research projects
Do green campuses make green students?
Evaluating the role of attending a “green” campus in changing behaviors to be more environmentally friendly
Undisciplining Environmental Communication Pedagogy
Toward Environmental and Epistemic Justice in the Interdisciplinary Sustainability Classroom.
Allegheny College Food Forest Educational Project
Watershed Conservation Documentary Project y
Emerging Politics of the Deep Sea Mining Industry
Investigating the Political Ecology of the Toronto Public Transportation System
The range and impacts of Round Gobies on native species in French Creek watershed