The Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology (E3B) at Columbia University was established in 2001. In creating E3B, the university recognized that the fields of ecology, evolutionary biology, and environmental biology constitute a distinct subdivision of the biological sciences with its own set of intellectual foci, theoretical foundations, scales of analysis, and methodologies.
The E3B community offers academic excellence in a range of natural and social science disciplines that are directly related to biodiversity conservation including: ecology, evolution, systematics, genetics, behavioral ecology, public health, business, economics, political science, anthropology, and public and international policy.
