Environment school students often take advantage of the faculty and resources of other schools and departments within Yale University.

The School has joint-degree agreements with Yale Divinity School, Law School, School of Management, the School of Medicine's Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, and the Graduate School's programs in International Relations, International Economics, and Development Economics.

The school has also cultivated relationships with key faculty members of other divisions of the University who have research and teaching interests that overlap with the School's foci. These faculty hail from the schools of Architecture, Management, Medicine, and the Faculty of Engineering, as well as the departments of Geology and Geophysics, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Anthropology, among others.

Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies

Established in May 1990, the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (YIBS) serves as a key focus for Yale University's research and training efforts in the environmental sciences. YIBS is committed to the teaching of environmental studies to future generations and provides physical and intellectual centers for research and education that address fundamental questions that will inform the ability to generate solutions to the biosphere's most critical environmental problems. There are currently seven YIBS Research Centers: YIBS Center for Earth Observation; YIBS Center for the Study of Global Change, YIBS Center for the Ecology and Systematics of Animals on the Verge of Extinction (ECOSAVE); YIBS Field Ecology Center; YIBS Center for Stable Isotopic Studies of the Environment; and YIBS Microbial Diversity Center. The School's current interests are most closely aligned with the Center for Earth Observation and the Field Ecology Center. For full information on the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies and its associated centers, please refer to the YIBS Web site: http://www.yale.edu/yibs/.

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, founded in 1866, contains one of the great scientific collections in North America. Numbering more than eleven million objects and specimens, the collections are used for exhibition and for research by scholars throughout the world. A growing Internet service makes catalogue data for more than one million of these specimens and objects available online at http://www.peabody. yale.edu/. Workshops and laboratories in the fields of paleontology, archaeology, zoology, and evolutionary biology make the Peabody a working museum, where public exhibition, research, and teaching intersect.

Yale's environment school maintains a close association with the Peabody. The museum's director and curators provide support for a concentration in museology under the school's Master of Environmental Studies program. The Peabody Field Station in Guilford, Connecticut, is used collaboratively for research on coastal and estuarine systems.