Plymouth State University (PSU), Plymouth, NH, is inviting applications for its MS program in Environmental Science and Policy (ES&P). We offer expertise in areas of watershed ecosystems, hydrology, climate change, ecological economics, landscape ecology, and land use planning. Our curriculum emphasizes the relationships between science and policy, decision making for social and ecological sustainability and resilience, and science communication. Students in the program often collaborate with interdisciplinary teams of faculty, students, and scientists from other academic, governmental, and non-governmental organizations including organizations such as Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, White Mountain National Forest, NH Department of Environmental Services, Appalachian Mountain Club, and the Squam Lakes Association. Students accepted to PSU’s MS in ESP may be eligible for graduate assistantships (GA) with PSU’s Center for the Environment. For academic year 2016-17, we anticipate GAs in the following areas: 1) Limnology and paleolimnology research projects on several lakes in Northern New Hampshire and Maine. 2) Phenology research on alpine and woodland flowering plants in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. 3) Analysis of long-term environmental data sets. 4) Water chemistry dynamics and laboratory analysis. 5) Ecosystem services and the value of water quality improvements.
Assistantships are available only to full-time students enrolled in the MS program in Environmental Science and Policy and typically provide a stipend of $8,000 and 15 credits of tuition per year. Applications to the MS in ES&P are submitted to PSU’s Graduate Studies. For more information, please contact Associate Director of the Center for the Environment and MS ES&P Program Coordinator June Hammond Rowan ([email protected]). Also, see http://www.plymouth.edu/center- for-the-environment/
