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Our doctoral program challenges environmental professionals and independent
scholars to find solutions for contemporary and future environmental problems. The program is broad enough to provide a rigorous foundation in environmental knowledge, yet flexible enough to accommodate individualized research.
Participate in a dynamic learning community.
Students come from all over the world to pursue their environmental studies at Antioch University New England. In the doctoral program, you’ll join a diverse community of educators, managers, scientists, communicators, policy makers, writers, and activists—each with a unique professional and scholarly perspective.
Specializations are as diverse as our faculty and students.
Draw on a truly interdisciplinary learning environment to create a unique research focus that is directed toward contemporary environmental concerns. Faculty are members of one department, and work together to support student research on questions related to diverse, complex, and contemporary issues such as protected areas management, natural history education, and conservation practice in the context of climate change.
Study with an internationally recognized faculty.
You study with leaders, innovators, and experienced educators who are renowned in their fields. Engage with faculty experienced in applied, interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching, with specialties in conservation biology, environmental history, environmental decision-making and risk assessment, environmental thought and values.
Learn, grow, and explore as a member of an intimate group.
The doctoral program admits a small group of students each year, so you gain the personal attention and the lively interaction that promotes and supports a positive, engaging learning environment.
Take advantage of innovative learning structures.
In addition to the traditional classroom approach, doctoral studies incorporate online learning, collaborative research, intensive seminars, and service learning contracts to meet the needs of the active, working professional and scholar.
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ES Students Published
Mass Audubon Coastal Waterbird Newsletter
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 H. Bruce Rinker, PhD ’04
Division Director
Pinellas County Department of Environmental Management
Environmental Lands Division
Tarpon Springs, Florida
Undergraduate: BS in Forestry and Wildlife, Virginia Tech
How did you first become interested in environmental studies?
It began when I read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World as a child. The possibility of a frontier so inaccessible, virtually impossible to explore, piqued my interest in finding unexplored worlds myself. Years later, I built a canopy walkway in New York State to access the temperate treetops in the mid-Hudson Valley; and have since explored the canopies of forests throughout North and South America, Africa, and Australia.
How did your PhD program impact your work?
I developed a respect for qualitative research as well as quantitative studies. I am now a less linear, more global thinker. Its emphasis on volunteerism and teamwork is particularly relevant to my current position wherein I’m responsible for an endangered lands program in the most densely populated county in Florida. I have benefited from ANE’s comprehensive view of the world that includes socioeconomics, history, literature, and culture—not just science and mathematics. I benefit from work with the old man downriver as well as from the ecological processes operative in the treetops. For a successful conservation strategy, we must all sit down together at the table.
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