Savannah River Ecology Laboratory

SREL Education Program

catching alligators
collecting microbes
recording field data
PCR
coring trees
releasing snapping turtle
looking for rattlesnakes

Program Highlights:

•    400+ theses and dissertations; 196 M.S./ 218 Ph.D.

•    600+ undergraduates from over 275 institutions in 49 states and Puerto Rico

•    200+ awards won by SREL graduate students in regional, national, and international competitions

•    150+ peer-reviewed publications authored by SREL undergraduates

 

The Savannah River Ecology Laboratory (SREL) offers outstanding research opportunities in ecology and environmental sciences for graduate and undergraduate students. Located on the Savannah River Site (SRS), a federal nuclear materials processing facility near Aiken, SC, the laboratory offers students state-of-the-art laboratory facilities, a wide variety of natural and impacted habitats for field research, a diversity of faculty expertise, and more than fifty years of experience in ecological research.

SREL has a long history of graduate and undergraduate education, training over 400 graduate and over 600 undergraduate researchers since 1967.

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