Environmental Science

The Environmental Science program at Lycoming College is housed within the Biology Department. The program is an interdisciplinary minor with required courses in Economics, Geology and Biology. Lycoming College maintains a cooperative program with Duke University's Environmental Science & Forestry program. In addition, field trips or courses are offered at the Marine Science Consortium at Wallops Island and the Hofstra University Marine Laboratory in Jamaica (course information). The capstone of the program is the required Environmental Practica class (Biology 401). In this course students work in research projects or internships on a variety of environmental issues or problems.

Current long term projects include the monitoring of white-tail deer exclosure at Rider Park and PP&L's Montour Preserve (see summary poster here). Students are also involved in deer population studies at Rider Park, Montour Preserve and the 11,000 acre Williamsport Water Authority Watershed. Other projects have involved banding Saw Whet owls during fall and spring migration for ProjectOwlNETt.org (see pictures of Lycoming interns here), Monarch Butterfly Watch, Goldenrod gall fly ecology, small mammal population studies and numerous aquatic projects under Lycoming College's Clean Water Institute.

• More information on these topics can be found at Mel Zimmerman's Homepage

• Lycoming Environmental Awareness Foundation can be found here LEAF.

• Environmental summer work experiences and honors projects.

• Honors Projects Abstracts

• Lycoming is a new member or PCIEP -- Dr Zimmerman is the campus contact

• Kristin Brown did her environmental practica experience with saw-whet owls and Wayne Laubscher, a certified owl bander for ProjectOwlNET.org.  (see pictures here)

• Heather Jacobs, a 1998 graduate of Lycoming College Biology and Environmental Science completed her masters at Duke, was in the Peace Corps, and is now the RIVERKEEPER.  

• Christy Bowersox, a 2006 graduate of Lycoming College, served as a House Volunteer for Our World Cabana Centre for the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) in Cuernavaca, Mexico.  As apart of her trip she visited a location where the monarch butterflies spend the winter. View Pictures here. 

• Brad Musser combines sports and field research.  Musser doubles as the starting point guard for the Warrior basketball squad and as a successful biology major and environmental science minor.

• On June 28, 2006 CWI  interns (Kate Olsen and Michelle Taylor) took part in banding Barn Owls near Turbotville, PA in Northumberland county coordinated by PA Game Commission.  Wayne Laubscher, from the PA Game Commission, ran the banding of these owls.  The PA Game Commission has listed the Barn Owl as a "priority specie" due to their decline in populations, degradation of their habitats, and less prey.  View pictures here.

 Picture Galleries:    
  
Trip to Vietnam 2006
Freshman Football Players at Rider Park 2005
Scuba Pictures and Information
Wallops Island 2004
Hawk Mountain 2002
Wallops Island 2002
Scuba-Diving 2002
Project OwlNET
Monarch Watch
 

Group Photo from the Deer Drive November 17, 2004

High Knob Vista.

An ecology class does a vegetation study.

Christina with a baby bobcat,
during her State Game Commission internship.

Who would throw out a perfectly good professor???