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Peninsula College offers a variety of academic and applied Associates Degrees, many of which are directly transferable to 4-year programs throughout Washington. Peninsula College also provides a Bachelor's Degree in Applied Management, as well as providing other 4 year degree programs out of the Port Angeles campus. Peninsula College has direct transfer articulations with Western Washington University’s Huxley College of the Environment, and University of Washington’s College of Forest Resources and School of Aquatic and Fisheries Science. In addition, Western Washington University has recently re-established Huxley College of the Environment-Peninsulas, offering BS and BA degrees in Environmental Studies to students on the Olympic and Kitsap Peninsulas.

_Undergraduate students at Peninsula College and WWU’s Huxley College-Olympic/Kitsap have access to a wide variety of research opportunities, from forestry internships to ecosystem assessment projects.These experiences (which are largely unavailable to freshmen and sophomores elsewhere) allow our students to acquire advanced skills and experience with scientific methods and ecological-based research.This provides them an advantage over their peers at other academic institutions, as they will have had job- and knowledge-based hands-on experience in the field before graduation. It also helps develop significant networking connections with a wide range of academic, state, federal and tribal scientists for future career or graduate school opportunities. Click here for a list of recent publications and presentations by recent REUers, or watch some podcasts of their work:

_REU: No matter what it takes... (wmv file, 2.9mb)

REU: Unravel the mysteries... (wmv file, 9.0mb)

Nearshore Ecology

Daniel Brooks, Conamara Burke, Rebecca Paradis, Willie Spring, and Sara Witczak. 2009. The Elwha River Restoration Project and REU nearshore research. wmv file (11.8mb)

Ben Warren. 2008. Sometimes it's sink and swim. mp3 file (6.8mb)

Tiffany Nabors. 2008. Why are those great big boulders on the beach? mp3 file (2.7mb)

Wildlife Ecology

Doug Charles. 2007. Dashing through the forest...why I like science. mp3 file (2.6mb)

Erin Drake. 2008. Why looking for otter poop is not a bad day at the office! mp3 file (1.8mb)

Erin Drake, Jen Lee, and Gus Johson. 2008. Search for the Elwha's otters. wmv file (14mb)

Forestry

Shaelee Evans. 2008. Restoring sustainable forests of the Pacific Northwest. wmv file (15.6mb)

Snow Hydrology

Chris DeSisto & Shea McDonald. 2008. The future of water. wmv file (8.2mb)

Fungus

Jacob Melly, Colleen Murphy-Carey, and Lisa Brown. 2009. DIY Fungus Plug Transfers. wmv file (6.6mb)

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For more information on Undergraduate Research opportunities at Peninsula College and Western Washinton University's Huxley College of the Environment on the Peninsulas, please contact: