The students are the greatest strength of the Environmental Science program. Hailing from South America to Siberia and Provo to Accra, our students are seeking to understand environmental issues and develop creative and inclusive solutions. Check out the selection of student profiles below. Then come join our community of uplifting and insightful students to help us literally change the world.
STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS
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Cecilia Foster
I want to be a science journalist, more specifically an environmental reporter. By studying Environmental Science here at BYU, I can learn about the scientific basis for a lot of environmental issues and work on communicating those to a non-scientific audience. Studying Environmental Science also teaches me how to think like a scientist, while learning to talk and communicate like an activist.
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Derrek Wilson
I chose to study environmental science to understand how the natural world functions and how our interactions are affecting natural systems. I plan on going into the field of environmental law with the ultimate goal of creating environmental policy at a state or federal level. The environmental science major has provided me with scientific literacy to help me make more evidence based policy regarding environmental issues.
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Abigail Banks
I realized that I could make the difference I wanted to make in the world through majoring in Environmental Science. I'm minoring in Business and ultimately I want to do environmental nonprofit work. Studying at BYU gave me the opportunity to do my first internship at a nonprofit which made me realize how much I love it.
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Mitchell Greenhalgh
I’m very interested in how the environment is impacted by humans and how the environment impacts humans. I do research with a public health professor in addition to my main research in the environmental science program. Although my primary interests within environmental science (landscape and spatial ecology, ecological data science) aren’t really taught in the program, it’s providing me with a solid baseline that I would need to go into those fields later on.
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Isabella Errigo
I am an Environmental Science Major and International Development Minor. The ESci program has taught me a lot about environmental science, obviously, but it has also allowed me to connect my passion for environmental issues with my passions for other social injustices. I want to help nations create and enforce effective policies that reduce their emissions and promote sustainable development. I would also like to be a professor in environmental science and international development. After I retire, I want to be a park ranger.
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Sierra Curtis
I am an Environmental Science major and International Development minor.
I want to teach environmental science at community college to under represented minorities and first generation college students. I started in eco-business and while I still help with sustainable development initiatives I switched to an international development minor to better understand refugees or first generation Americans that I hope to teach someday.
I want to teach environmental science at community college to under represented minorities and first generation college students. I started in eco-business and while I still help with sustainable development initiatives I switched to an international development minor to better understand refugees or first generation Americans that I hope to teach someday.
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PHD STUDENTS
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MS STUDENTS
Hannah Burgin
Hanna Burgin is an Environmental Science master’s student conducting research about water conservation through sustainable landscaping in Utah.
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UNDERGRAD STUDENTS
Olivia Burns
Olivia Burns is an undergrad from New Richmond, Wisconsin studying Environmental Science and Sustainability and minoring in Professional Writing and Rhetoric. She is passionate about ecology, environmental law, environmental journalism, and sustainable development. In her free time, she loves backpacking, going through her camera roll, and reading (or looking at pictures in) the National Geographic.
Kristina Cass
Kristina Cass is an Ohio native and is pursuing a degree in Environmental Science with a minor in Geospatial Science and Technology.
George Eagleston
George is an undergraduate working toward a degree in Environmental Science and Sustainability. He grew up watching people around him making a positive impact for the environment on the policy side, private side, and scientific side, and wants to try and make an impact in all three. He loves anything outdoors, from mountain climbing to river rafting to fishing, and wants to keep those special for generations to come.
Sterling Fuller
Sterling Fuller is an undergraduate student from St. Louis, Missouri studying Biology.
Kylee Mecate
Kylee is an undergraduate from Imperial, California. She’s majoring in Wildlife and Wildlands Conservation, and she’s always had a passion for animals, being outside, and the beach/ocean.
Savannah Muise
Savannah Muise is an Exercise Science major from Alberta, Canada who will be pursuing a medical degree.
Baylie Nusink
Baylie Nusink is an undergraduate studying Environmental Science. She currently studies how wildfires and rodents influence plant invasions in forest and desert ecosystems.
Thomas Richards
Thomas Richards is an undergraduate student studying Wildlife and Wildlands conservation with minors in French and Chinese.
Dion Tapahe
Dion Tapahe is a senior majoring in Environmental Science and minoring in American Indian Studies.
Gavin Weber
Gavin Weber is an undergraduate working towards a degree in Biostatistics with a minor in Global and Communities Impact. He loves trail running, speaking Spanish in South American countries, a well (or badly) cooked pastry, learning about how to be a responsible steward of the earth’s resources, and jumping in with both feet into wholesome projects. He loves seeing how science and data analysis can be used as instruments in God’s hands, and hopes to leave a positive impact on all communities, environments, and people he works with!
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Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own—indeed to embrace the whole of creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder. Recognizing that sustainable development, democracy and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come
WANGARI MAATHAI
