Brown Environmental Leadership Lab: Eastern Sierras

This 10-day course will take you to Mammoth Lakes, California. Your home base will be the Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory (SNARL). In the classroom and during outdoor labs, you’ll work to better understand the causes and impacts of climate change and identify examples of environmental resilience. You’ll also develop resources and skills for environmental advocacy and environmental justice literacy while learning about socially responsible leadership. During your Eastern Sierras adventure, you will visit fascinating geological features of the area on trips to Mono Lake, the bristlecone pine forest and Tuolumne Meadows. At each site, you will learn about field methodology for data collection. Back at SNARL, you will put your field knowledge to use during indoor and outdoor lab exercises and lessons on topics like stream chemistry and geology. Over the course of your BELL experience, you’ll also identify a pressing issue that you’re passionate about. With support from instructors and peers, you’ll develop an Action Plan to apply your new leadership knowledge to this issue when you return home.