BS Environmental Science

Program Details

• Live What You Learn

  • Exciting, résumé-building internships with leading environmental organizations
  • Analytical courses that provide hands-experience in biology, ecology, chemistry, calculus, environmental policy, ethics, economics, environmental sustainability, and research methods
  • Year-long research projects on a topic developed in collaboration with faculty and outside collaborators
  • Travel courses on tropical marine biology, which include 10 days of field research in Belize
  • Travel courses on social justice and community service, which include 10 days of research and service in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region of the United States
  • International summer internships and research programs in destinations like Cost Rica and Panama

• Career Opportunities

  • State and federal agencies such as the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, United States Fish and Wildlife, New Hampshire (NH) Department of Environmental Services, NH Fish and Game, NH Department of Transportation, NH Public Utilities Commission, and many others
  • Environmental Consulting
  • Environmental Engineering (requires an additional degree to become certified)
  • Environmental Education

  Graduates can also go on to pursue masters and doctoral programs.

Faculty

• James Newcomb

  Professor, Biology and Health Science and Co-Director of Center for Undergraduate Science Research
  Office: Science Building 116C, Henniker Campus
  Phone: 603.428.2374
  Email: jnewcomb@nec.edu
  Professional website: sites.google.com/view/newcomblab

  Awards and Recent Press

  • Recent grants include a $160,000 grant from National Institutes of Health/INBRE to study specific cellular junctions in neurons, in both mammalian and invertebrate preparations.
  • Recent publications include a paper in Integrative Organismal Biology, reporting on the distribution and roles of a peptide neurotransmitter in a sea slug (Watson et al, 2020).

  Educational Background
  PhD in Biology, Georgia State University
  MS in Zoology, University of New Hampshire
  BS in Zoology, University of New Hampshire
  BS in Chemistry and Physics, Keene State College

  Research Interests
  My lab investigates the physiological mechanisms underlying behavior. Our latest projects include studies on cellular junctions, circadian rhythms, extraocular photoreception, non-invasive neural stimulation, and regeneration.

  Bio
  James Newcomb has been a professor at NEC since 2006. In 2019, he also became co-director of NEC’s Center for Undergraduate Science Research. He has maintained an externally funded research lab since 2010, during which time (as of 2020), he had obtained over $800,000 in extramural grants. As of 2020, he had published a total of 19 peer-reviewed publications (cited over 800 times), including 13 NEC students as co-authors, and been a co-author on 130 presentations at research conferences. He has also coauthored chapters for two different books. He is an Associate Editor for the journal Integrative Organismal Biology and Chair of the Division for Neurobiology, Neuroethology, and Sensory Biology of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Beyond the confines of post-secondary academia, he is also an elected School Board member for John Stark Regional High School.

• Tod Ramseyer

  Associate Professor, Physics and Mathematics
  Office: Science Building 117, Henniker Campus
  Phone: 603.428.2316
  Email: tramseyer@nec.edu

  Expertise
  Math, physics, and astronomy education

  Educational Background
  PhD, University of Texas at Austin
  MA, University of Texas at Austin
  BA, Haverford College

  Research Interests

  • Astronomy of interacting binary stars
  • Physics education

  Bio
  Dr. Ramseyer has taught physics, astronomy, and mathematics for many years at several institutions. While he started as an observational astronomer focused on variable stars, he now spends the majority of his time teaching mathematics and trying to improve NEC’s physics for the life sciences class.

Degree Requirements