E-IPER student Geoff Shester collaborates with fishermen in Baja, Mexico to monitor the status of local fisheries

Stanford's Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) is designed to create interdisciplinary scholars and leaders to address the world's most challenging environmental and sustainability problems.

E-IPER students combine academic disciplines, including natural and earth sciences, engineering, economics, humanities, social sciences, law, health, policy, and business, to yield new insights and novel solutions to urgent global problems, such as energy use, climate change, food security, freshwater availability, depletion of ocean resources, land degradation, and biodiversity loss.

E-IPER offers a PhD and, for students in Stanford's Graduate School of Business, Stanford Law School, and School of Medicine, an MS in Environment and Resources in combination with their professional degree. E-IPER's home is in the School of Earth Sciences, which awards E-IPER degrees.