The Environmental Studies Department at Dickinson has offered a "watershed-based, integrated field semester" since the fall 2005 semester. This program, funded by the Henry Luce Foundation, provides a single interdisciplinary, integrated course for the equivalent of a student’s normal 4-course load. The watershed semester is being offered again in fall 2007. It combines classroom activities, community-based fieldwork research, independent study, and extensive travel and immersion in two comparative watershed regions: the Chesapeake Bay and the lower Mississippi River Basin.

The class is travelling to coastal Louisiana in November and recording its experience with photos and blog entries. Some of the photos are featured here. Learn more about the trip by reading the blog and viewing the photos..