Department of Applied Environmental Science
Research & Outreach Opportunities
The Science Internship Program
The Science Internship Program website allows students to find internship and research opportunities, provides guidance for students to obtain academic credit for their internship, access online resources, and sign up for individualized internship advising. Please contact science_internships@csumb.edu for more information.
Education and Outreach Partnerships
Many Applied Environmental Science faculty members are conducting grant-funded outreach and education projects in various fields related to our graduate and undergraduate programs. Through these partnerships, faculty provide unique hands-on opportunities for collaborative student research and education/outreach in a variety of communities.
Research Labs
Eight research labs operate within the Department of Applied Environmental Science at CSUMB. Undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral students work with their Principal Investigators (P.I.s) in research labs as interns, researchers, and research assistants, contributing to cutting edge research and gaining valuable experience in their field of interest.
The Engagement Lab
PI: Dr. Victoria Derr
Areas of Research: Education, participation, and planning for just sustainability
The Fernandez Lab
PI: Dr. Daniel Fernandez
Areas of Research: Statewide fog water collection and spatial, temporal, and chemical analysis of it
CSUMB NASA AMES Lab
Director: Dr. Susan Alexander
Areas of research: ecological and watershed systems with an emphasis on local, regional, and global environmental problems and issues resulting from changing climatic and land-use patterns
The Terrestrial Wildlife Ecology Lab
PI: Dr. Jennifer Duggan
Areas of Research: Conservation biology, landscape ecology, animal behavior
Watershed Environments & Ecology Lab (WEE)
PI: Dr. John Olson
Areas Of Interest: Aquatic Ecology, Remote Sensing, Watershed Sciences
The Watershed Geology Lab
Areas of research: watershed hydrology, process geomorphology, sediment dynamics, terrestrial remote sensing, and geospatial analysis
The Watershed Institute
Director: Dr. Jennifer Duggan
Areas of Research: watershed geology, plant pathology, agricultural bio-geochemistry, biological remediation, terrestrial wildlife biology
The Watson Lab
PI: Dr. Fred Watson
Areas of Research: Conservation, Plant Ecology, Wildlife Ecology, Land Use, Recreation Planning, Remote Sensing, Statistics, Hydrology