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The Environmental Initiative supports a variety of research projects across all four colleges of Lehigh University. Centered around the Earth and Environmental Sciences and Civil and Environmental Engineering departments, EI-affiliated faculty, students and staff conduct research in areas as varied as communications, earth science, economics, policy, and geoenvironmental engineering.
The Lehigh Earth Observatory (LEO) serves to provide a crucial link between scientific and societal research on the environment. Students participate in internships in which they are exposed to environmental fieldwork and data collection, then link the scientific data with societal and political effects. LEO maintains a database of collected environmental data which is used across Lehigh University and beyond to illustrate and understand environmental processes.