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The School for Field Studies

Learn from
the World.

At 12 field centers worldwide, SFS students run original environmental research alongside local communities.

Where We Work

12 Field Research
Centers Worldwide

Each SFS center sits in one community and ecosystem, with a research agenda built around that place's environmental challenges. Students and faculty collect data alongside local partners and share the findings with the people who use them.

Field Research

Science That Happens Outside

SFS students don't study environmental issues from a distance. They measure, document, and contribute to solving them. Every program is built around original field research conducted alongside faculty and local partners in ecosystems that are actively changing.

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A scuba diver silhouettes beneath a school of fish in deep blue water
A student writes field notes in dense Panamanian rainforest

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SFS student smiles from a safari vehicle in Kenya
A vibrant hummingbird with iridescent plumage perches among lush green foliage in Panama
Divers explore a vibrant coral reef in crystalline turquoise waters
A green anole lizard perches on vivid pink cordyline leaves in Costa Rica
A smiling student stands on rocky mountain terrain in Bhutan's Himalayan landscape
SFS transformed the way I see science. We weren't just reading about environmental issues: we were living them, measuring them, and working with communities to address them.

Maya Chen  ·  SFS Kenya Alumna  ·  Now: Conservation Biologist, WWF

Twelve Centers.
Twenty-Nine Programs.
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