ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS
AT
LOCK HAVEN UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Central Pennsylvania provides outstanding settings for environmental investigations.

Bachelors Degree Programs:
The Department of Biological Sciences and the Department of Geology and Physics offer bachelors degrees that focus on the environment. Students can earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology or a Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Geology. These programs are intended for students with career goals in such areas as environmental resource management, fisheries and wildlife biology, and applied geoscience fields including hydrogeology and engineering geology. Students completing these programs have moved on successfully to graduate programs, positions in industry and governmental service.
Advantages of these programs:
Lock Haven University of PA offers small class size with considerable hands-on laboratory and field experience and personal attention from dedicated and accomplished faculty. Our upper level classes average 10 to 30 students per section.

At Lock Haven University students gain a broad background in the liberal arts; many also take advantage of opportunities to study abroad. Students in the environmental programs take core courses that require them to gain experience in mathematics, chemistry and physics while exploring the applied aspects of biology and geology.

Biology Club at Hawk Mountain.

Minors:
Lock Haven University programs provide students the flexibility to pursue a minor in an associated scientific discipline, such as chemistry, or one that complements the environmental curriculum outside the natural sciences, such as economics, political science, or communication.

Students in other majors can design a minor in biology or geology to reflect their individual interests in the environment.

Additional Opportunities:
Lock Haven University is a member of The Marine Science Consortium, which maintains a marine station on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, between the Atlantic Ocean and the Chesapeake Bay. Courses including marine biology, marine geology, oceanography and ecology can be taken during the summer to increase the diversity of offerings in both majors.

Students also have the option of designing independent research projects addressing a variety of environmental topics directed by faculty members as well as outside experts. Internships, available with governmental agencies and private industries that focus on the environment, allow students to gain academic credit through job-related field experiences.

Geology students visit field sites and
investigate "real-world" problems in geology.

How well have these programs served students?
Our students have a well-established track record of gaining employment in environmental areas of their interest or moving on to graduate programs in both the applied and basic sciences and engineering.

Students may study marine environments during summer sessions.

What employment opportunities are available to students taking environmental programs?
The destruction of tropical rain forests, loss of biodiversity, ozone threats, potential global warming, nuclear-waste disposal, groundwater pollution, dwindling energy, mineral, soil, and water resources are among the major environmental problems that must be dealt with now and in the foreseeable future.

Pennsylvania has a rich history of generating
energy resources for the nation.

Governments, industry, and private and public research agencies are being held accountable for addressing environmental issues and concerns. The demand for new and more appropriate responses to environmental problems and issues increases daily.

Acid-mine drainage from coal strippings and deep mines
provides challenges for surface and groundwater remediation studies.

Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania provides students with diverse educational experiences through these environmental programs. This gives our students opportunities to acquire knowledge and develop skills they will need to act in creative and innovative ways in order to address the challenges that derive from the complex interrelated nature of these and many other environmental issues.

Aquatic biology students studying fish populations.

ADMISSIONS AND INFORMATION

To apply for admission or to obtain further information about Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania write to:

Office of Admissions

Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania

Lock Haven, PA 17745

Or write directly to the Chairperson of the Department of Biological Sciences

or the Department of Geology and Physics at:

Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania

Lock Haven, Pa 17745

We can be contacted on the web at

www.lhup.edu/academic/departments/biol
or
www.lhup.edu/academic/departments/geo

Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, a member of the State System of Higher Education encourages applications from minorities, women, veterans and persons with disabilities.