Lake Management MS Program

SUNY Oneonta's M.S. in Lake Management trains students to become effective water resource management professionals. Our innovative program blends scientific training in aquatic biology, limnology and quantitative skills with professional training in project design, management, and reporting in a real-life setting, working with lake stakeholders directly or with established lake management professionals. Dan Stich, Associate Professor of Biology at SUNY Oneonta: Yeah, you know, it's the water a little bit. There's something about being on a boat all day for a living that gets people excited. Um, when I've spent 8 hours on a boat, I'm never really in a bad mood afterwards. SUNY Oneonta's Lake Management program uh will help prepare you for uh high demand uh careers in water resource management and sciences. Our graduates are employed as fishery biologists, research associates, aquatic ecologists, wetland scientists, lab managers, and a variety of other professions. You have an opportunity to do a lot of really truly hands-on things. We have our classes outside in the best classroom right here on Otsego Lake. Ciara Gunderson, MS Lake Management Student at SUNY Oneonta: Big on the hands-on learning experience. I'm a huge hands-on learner. I learn better that way. and getting out and doing it just gives me the experience that I need to further my career. Taline Almasian, MS Lake Management Student at SUNY Oneonta: And all of the hands-on field work has really given me so much experience and also given me a ton of questions to ask. So, I'm constantly learning in that way, too. Cael Adkins, MS Lake Management Student at SUNY Oneonta: Having real world applicable skills that is literally just kind of your homework assignment that you can then take to your next job is really what kind of sold the deal for me. Dan Stich: It's the people. Uh I don't I I really do think that we have we have a pretty amazing uh group of faculty who are involved in our graduate programs. Most of our faculty are fairly well tapped into um the local professional communities and conservation groups. Uh we work very closely with state and federal resource management agencies. Cael Adkins: Join us in the field. come out for a day of sampling and, you know, get hands-on experience with what it's going to be like. You know, especially when it looks like this outside where the leaves turning, I think you're going to, you know, take the leap.