Environmental Management Certificate Program

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Keystone Partners

Environmental Management students complete team-based Keystone Projects in cooperation with community partners. By hosting and working with these keystone teams, community partners have a great opportunity to work with exceptional graduate and undergraduate students from the University of Washington, who offer both rigorous discipline-based capabilities with interdisciplinary knowledge, tools, and teamwork. Keystone teams offer community partners a wealth of practical skills and expertise; at the same time, our students gain valuable experience in applying academic research to real-world issues.

Through Keystone Projects, we seek to break down the barriers that can prevent knowledge generated at a leading research university from being applied to real-world problems and concerns of the local community. We seek to develop long-term partnerships with Keystone partners that will help to create long-term approaches to regional environmental management problems and help to make the Environmental Management program self-sustaining. These long-term partnerships not only help to make a difference in the region, but also to push University researchers to further their own knowledge and the state of practice in their fields. In this way, the keystone projects will offer an exceptional educational experience and will help shape University research agendas to further addresses community needs.

Environmental Management students come from a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, atmospheric sciences, biology, business, economics, engineering, environmental health, fisheries, forestry, geography, geology, landscape architecture, law, marine affairs, oceanography, political science, public policy, and other areas of the natural and social sciences.

Project Duration

Keystone projects extend over the complete academic year, running roughly from the last week of September to the first week of June of the following year. Students enroll in Keystone course credits and meet regularly both with community partners and a faculty mentor.

Project Selection

Keystone Project planning will generally begin in January for the following academic year. Project partners and faculty mentors will be selected during winter quarter, and announced by the last week of March for the coming academic year.

If you are interested in hosting and working with a Keystone Project team, please contact:

Environmental Management Certificate Program
Graduate Program Coordinator
274 Mary Gates Hall
University of Washington
Box 352802
Seattle, WA 98195-2802
tel: 206.221.6129
e-mail: envirmgt@u.washington.edu