Welcome to the Environmental Conservation Professional M.S. -Leadership Placement blog!

Environmental Professional Programs students engage in an independent, applied conservation leadership capstone with a partnering organization, pairing their specific strengths and professional goals with the organizations’ mission. In this blog, you will find various reflections and notes from the field from our very own M.S. students conducting their project work regionally and abroad. Students establish these placements via networking with support from the Environmental Professional Programs staff and through their own ambition to connect with experts and leading practitioners throughout the world. This is a compilation of their time spent in the field during these placements as they experience them!

Student placements

See where our students have conducted their placements on the map above. 

To get to this point, students completed 12 months of intensive coursework and leadership training, deeply explored their professional goals and personal passions, networked with agencies locally and globally, developed proposals based on organizational needs, and finally got themselves into the field! We are so happy to share in our students experiences through this blog and want to encourage positive interaction with our students as they engage, reflect, and share their experiences. Enjoy exploring the journey with them!

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

– John Muir