Capabilities & Collaboration

Capabilities

The strength of the Institute is derived directly from the expertise and engagement of WIU faculty. As a unit of the WIU College of Arts & Sciences, IES is able to draw on faculty from the physical & natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities to provide unique, integrated, and holistic approaches to environmental challenges. Representative areas of expertise include:

  • Aquatic & terrestrial biological inventories & restoration planning.
  • Geospatial data collection & analysis.
  • Socioeconomic assessment of rural & riverfront communities.
  • Historical and cultural resource assessment.
  • Environmental humanities.

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Facilites

Collaboration

Affiliated Research Units

Multidisciplinary Research. A representative example of multidiscipplinary environmental research being conducted through IES: