Jake Schenthal ’21: Award-winning research in the Mediterranean
![Jake Schenthal, an Earth and Environmental Studies student, manipulates a screen containing soil and rock samples at a field research site in the Middle East](https://as.vanderbilt.edu/earth-environmental-sciences/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Jake-middle-east-300x214.jpg)
Jake received the department’s Alberstadt-Reesman-Stearns Field Studies Award, enabling him to conduct research on human-environmental interactions in the Middle East.
“I gained tremendous knowledge about how human societies interact with the surrounding ecosystem in both the Mediterranean and the surrounding valleys. I am immensely grateful to the Earth and Environmental Sciences department for developing my intellectual skills within environmental science and geology,” Jake said.