Mission
E3B's mission is to educate a
new generation of scientists and practitioners in the
theory and methods of ecology, evolution, and
environmental biology. Our educational programs
emphasize a multi-disciplinary perspective on the
earth's declining biodiversity, integrating
understanding from relevant fields in biology with
insights from relevant fields in the social sciences.
To achieve this
multi-disciplinary perspective, the department maintains
close ties to over 70 faculty members beyond its central
core. Thus many faculty members who teach, advise, and
train students in research are based in other
departments on the Columbia campus, or at the partner
institutions of the CERC consortium, including the
American Museum of Natural History, The New York
Botanical Garden, The Wildlife Conservation Society, and
Wildlife Trust. Through this collaboration, the
department is able to tap into a broad array of
scientific and intellectual resources in the greater New
York City area. The academic staff covers the areas of
plant and animal systematics, evolutionary and
population genetics, demography and population biology,
behavioral and community ecology, and related fields of
epidemiology, ethnobiology, public health, and
environmental policy. Harnessing the expertise of this
diverse faculty and the institutions of which they are a
part, E3B covers a vast area of inquiry into the
evolutionary, genetic, and ecological relationships
among all living things.
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