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Environmental Science

An interdisciplinary program with multiple career paths after graduation. Specialize in law, education, science, engineering, or business to customize your degree. 

About the Program

The environmental science program at Norwich provides an interdisciplinary education applicable to a broad range of interests and career paths related to the environment.

Students develop their specialization by selecting a minor within a traditional academic discipline. The result is a broad range of emphases that allow students to match employment opportunities with personal interests.

Students are offered abundant hands-on experience in problem solving. Many courses include studies of active environmental problems. Norwich University is in the valley floor of the Dog River and surrounded by wide biological and geological diversity within walking distance. This setting lends itself to our program’s emphasis on outdoor fieldwork. All Environmental Science students take a pair of capstone courses involving participation in original research, often coordinated with faculty research and involving travel.

The modest size of the program ensures its personalized, family atmosphere, with attentive advising from a faculty of professionally engaged academicians. Students have access to an exceptional variety of equipment and facilities of all the science and engineering programs. Employment opportunities remain excellent throughout the environmental industry as managers, scientists, recycling managers, engineering consultants, toxic waste managers, lawyers, real-estate historians and “ecopreneurs” remain in high demand.

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To view additional program details for programs such as course offerings, requirements, and curriculum maps for the environmental science course offerings and a curriculum map, visit the Norwich University Course Catalog using these links.

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The Environmental Science program is equipped with HACH field chemical analysis equipment, water and soil sampling equipment, and a field station for remote investigations of the Dog River Valley ecosystem. With our ICAP spectrometer lab, we conduct quantitative chemical analyses of soils and water from streams, lakes, and aquifers, while our mobile field equipment is used to collect water quality data. Geophysical tools include a gravity meter, seismograph, magnetometer, electromagnetometer, and ground penetrating radar that are used to investigate the impact of human activities on subsurface conditions. Scanning electron microscopy facilities allow for investigation of inorganic components of soils and X-ray diffractometry facilities allow for analysis of mineral deposits that preserve important records of past climate and environmental conditions. Equipment for the collection and analysis of sediment and soil is housed in the program with further analytical capabilities housed in associated programs on campus.

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