03/26/2026
Don't miss the free WLW-ECOS Undergraduate Expo on April 7—come connect with environmental student researchers and professionals, discover internship opportunities, and get personalized resume insights from FAU's Career...
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The Florida Atlantic University (FAU) School of Environmental, Coastal, and Ocean Sustainability (ECOS) is a partnership between the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science and Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (HBOI). This multidisciplinary and multi-unit initiative serves as the driver for diverse academic and research entities to create a comprehensive environmental hub at FAU. ECOS leverages each group's outside partners, including many government agencies and educational institutions, combining the full breadth of partnerships with the University’s teaching, research and outreach mission to enhance opportunities and bring forth the collective environmental capabilities of FAU.
ECOS serves as an umbrella for numerous academic offerings in departments and interdisciplinary program areas that provide advanced bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral, and certificate programs.
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Spotlight Stories
Veteran Ecotoxicologist Named First WLW-ECOS Professor-in-Residence
The Charles E. Schmidt College is pleased to welcome its inaugural WLW-School of Environmental, Coastal and Ocean Sustainability (ECOS) Professor in Residence, Gabriela Rodríguez-Fuentes, Ph.D., from the Unidad de Química en Sisal, Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), located on the Yucatan in southeastern Mexico.
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Alumna Liz Dutra Combines Science and Community Action to Restore South Florida’s Ecosystems
Two-time Schmidt College of Science alumna Liz Dutra, B.S. ’11, M.S. ’15, actively communicates her scientific knowledge to the public to inspire a shared commitment to conservation.
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We invite faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students from any organizational unit within FAU to become an affiliate member of the School.
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NEWS
03/25/2026
This year’s $15,000 award has been granted to Stephen Kajiura, Ph.D., a professor of biological sciences within FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, for his pioneering work on a patent-pending shark deterrent...
03/17/2026
To fill this gap, Florida Atlantic University researchers and their collaborators studied free-living Northern cardinals (Cardinalis cardinalis), a common territorial songbird, to examine how everyday challenges affect gut...
03/17/2026
A study by Florida Atlantic University’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, in collaboration with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), provides evidence that a historical nursery area within...
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