Environmental Career
Skills
Program
August
14 - 17, 2012
Cornell's Arnot Teaching and Research Forest
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What is the
Environmental Career Skills Program?
Environmental
Career Skills Program is an intensive, hands-on field course. Students and future leaders in environmental or natural resource professions are instructed and trained in essential environmental tools and modern field
techniques by some of Cornell's leading scientists.
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Program Description:
Environmental Career Skills is a 3-day immersion course hosted by Cornell's Department of Natural Resources. The course takes place at the Arnot Teaching and Research Forest, a semi-isolated, wooded setting with woodland flora and fauna, streams, ponds, and 100-year-old forest stands. Located 15 miles southwest of Ithaca, NY, the Arnot provides ample opportunity to study the methods and
principles of conservation ecology, forestry, and stream ecology, and to learn techniques for studying amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
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Who Should Attend?
Any student
interested in hands-on training in ecology, conservation, and modern field
sampling methods will benefit from this course. Students in the following majors may find the course especially beneficial:
- Natural Resources
- Science of Natural and Environmental Systems
- Environmental Science
- Plant Biology
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Biology
- Biological and Environmental Engineering
- Animal Science
- Landscape Architecture
- City and Regional Planning
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Develop essential skills, gain hands-on experience, and get a head start in techniques that are critical to your career - Wildlife and plant identification and natural history
- Forest ecosystem assessment techniques
- Modern field sampling techniques like telemetry, digital acoustical analysis, and remote sensing
- Mapping and orienteering
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Program
Directors: Stephen J. Morreale
and Kristi L. Sullivan
