ProgramCIP 26.1305

Environmental Biology

A program that focuses on the scientific study of the origins, functions, relationships, interactions, and natural history of living populations, communities, species, and ecosystems in relation to dynamic environmental processes. Includes instruction in biodiversity, molecular genetic and genomic evolution, mesoscale ecology, computational biology and modeling, conservation biology, local and global environmental change, and restoration ecology.

Definition from U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (CIP 2020).

Also called Environmental Microbiology.