<p>Another option is Civil and Environmental Engineering. S2 was interested in Environmental Science, but found it didn’t have enough science to it, so switched to Engineering (air and water quality, pavement, foundations, etc)</p>
<p>I think the challenge will be that there is a wide range of programs - some more policy oriented, others more hard science.</p>
<p>good luck</p>
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<p>Have to agree here that this would be a good choice if he is more into the hard science and application of such. In terms of ecology and environment, the choices made in civil and environmental engineering design decisions can have long lasting impacts or minimization of impacts on the environment (e.g. effects on energy use, pollution, etc. based on how a building or other structure is designed, or effects on the river and lake ecosystems based on the installation or removal of a dam, or even larger scale effects based on how a town or city is laid out).</p>
<p>SUNY ESF has already been mentioned, but I wanted to tell you that my older D is loving it there. She is working on her second bachelors (environmental biology) and has applied to grad school there (ecology).</p>
<p>Regarding Pitt, it has one of the best Ecology laboratories in the Northeast (a lot of visiting professors from other universities conduct research there), but it is located up around Erie (see [The</a> Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology](<a href=“http://www.pitt.edu/~biology/pymatuning.htm]The”>http://www.pitt.edu/~biology/pymatuning.htm)). So if he goes to Pitt, he likely be spending time doing field work up there, either during the year, or in the summer.</p>
<p>If he is interested in the rain forest, he might consider Miami (FL) ecology program which would have more of a tropical ecology bent than he’d get up north.</p>
<p>Many thanks for all of the suggestions. It sounds like he will have many options. We’ll look at them all online (meaning I’ll teach him how to check them out online) and see which of them catch his attention to check out in person if we’re in the area.</p>
<p>Oh, you also mentioned somewhere warm. Tulane in New Orleans has a decent Environmental Studies major and/or an Environmental Science major as well. They also offer a very cool Costa Rican trip for credit that I really wish S would have taken advantage of. (Now he regrets not going!). And due to the environmental issues in the area (disappearing marshland, the oil spill, etc), there are many opportunities to study current events happening locally as part of the curriculum.</p>