A new home for the next generation of coastal science.
Hester Marine Sciences Hall brings teaching laboratories, the kelp culture room, and the Harbor Data Observatory together on the Seacliff bluff.
Inside Hester Hall
Atlantic Educational Society · Established 1974
A university shaped by its coast.
An education with a wider reach.
Since 1974, the Atlantic Educational Society has brought rigorous scholarship to the working coast of Oregon. Today, six colleges connect the sciences, professions, and humanities through a shared commitment to learning in the field.
From a first seminar to a senior project, students work alongside faculty on questions that matter to the communities around us.
Our universitySix colleges. A shared commitment to putting knowledge into practice.
Ocean systems, marine biology & coastal ecology
Coastal engineering, computing & sensor systems
Teacher preparation & educational leadership
Nursing, public health & clinical practice
Business, fisheries economics & port management
Environmental design, writing & public history
Our researchers study the systems that sustain coastal life, from kelp forests and tidal waters to public health and the working waterfront.
Hester Marine Sciences Hall brings teaching laboratories, the kelp culture room, and the Harbor Data Observatory together on the Seacliff bluff.
Inside Hester Hall“The School of Education placed me in a two-room school up the Yarrow River. I student-taught there, was hired there, and still send my own students back to AES for the summer field term.”
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