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Environmental Stewardship

Real-World Experiences

  • The PSC Adirondack Watershed Institute focuses on conserving and protecting water resources throughout the region.
  • PSC-AWI is not only an important contributor to the health of our environment – it’s also a major employer for students. Each summer the institute makes more than 120 jobs available to students. From scientific research to hands-on conservation and public outreach, PSC-AWI provides real jobs as a pathway to real careers.
  • PSC professors often view undergraduates as colleagues and research partners. Many of our students have presented at professional conferences and co-authored articles for publication in peer-reviewed journals.
  • One example is the long-term study of tick-borne infections such as Lyme disease. The data produced by PSC students in this field have made a substantial contribution to public health information throughout New York state and the nation.

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Adirondack Watershed Institute is a program of Paul Smith's College that does work focused on conserving and protecting water resources. We actually provide real jobs to over 120 students every summer. So if you're a fisheries major, you're working in fisheries projects, wildlife, wildlife projects-- real jobs preparing them for real careers.

The second thing that we do is we're a major resource for research opportunities for students at Paul Smith's, to the point where they're actually publishing the research in journals and presenting their work at conferences. So we're giving them a real opportunity, a leg up for careers.

For the past few years, our students have been involved in doing monitoring for tick-borne diseases, which are on the rise in the north country. The data we collect goes directly into a database that's shared throughout the state and also throughout the country. So we are the only group monitoring for these diseases in the entire north country of New York. So they make a substantial contribution.

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