Faculty Profile

Allyssa Decker

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies (2020)

Contact Information

on sabbatical Fall 2025

deckeral@dickinson.edu

Kaufman Hall Room 131
717-254-8056

Education

  • B.S., Southern Illinois University, 2014
  • M.S., 2016
  • Ph.D., Kansas State University, 2021

2025-2026 Academic Year

Fall 2025

ENST 550 Independent Research

Spring 2026

ENST 162 Integrative Environmental Sci
This course is an introduction to interdisciplinary environmental science. Students will learn to draw upon a variety of natural sciences to identify and address environmental challenges. Students will examine environmental issues analytically, learn to evaluate existing data, and begin to develop skills for acquiring new knowledge via the scientific method. They will be exposed to basic techniques for assessing environmental problems in lectures, laboratory exercises, and fieldwork. Three hours classroom and three hours laboratory a week. Prerequisite: 161