Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science

The facilities at Baruch provides Clemson with unique research opportunities in a coastal environment with high salinity estuary marshes,  brackish water, and freshwater swamps.  Topics of research deal with issues such as environmental impacts for changing land use patterns, costal resource conservation, maintaining water quality, and forest and watershed management.  The researchers provide information about these studies to the public and policy makers to aid in making decisions about land use and urban growth.