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The Academy of Environmental Sciences (AES) combines the collaborative power of online learning with the comprehension of hands-on, analytical, field-based research to stimulate your curiosity about the natural world.

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Register for Conservation Biology Today!  

Space is limited.  

The RiverRidge Foundation is now enrolling high school students, university undergraduates, and science teachers to participate in our conservation biology course.  This course blends four weeks of online coursework, seven days of field research in Virginia, and two weeks of online portfolio preparation and analysis.  Virginia Commonwealth University provides four university life science graduate credits and Lord Fairfax Community College provides three undergraduate credits.  The price of the course for graduate credit is approximately $1,100.00 (credits through VCU), and undergraduate credit is approximately $800.00. The course time line is June 14th - August 1st, 2010 with the field component taking place during the week of July 12th - July 18th.   Enrollment is currently open. Use the links at the top of the page to learn more about our course model and to enroll.  Learn about the the Chesapeake Bay Watershed by experiencing it for yourself!