The School has many student-run interest groups. Current student interest groups include:

• Africa SIG
• Birding SIG
• Carbon Removal SIG
• Climate Change
• ConBio (Society for Conservation Biology)
• DocComm (Ph.D. Advisory Committee)
• Economic Considerations of Nature (ECON)
• Energy SIG (ESIG)
• Empowerment Through Movement
• Environmental Data Science at Yale (EDSY)
• Environmental Justice at Yale (EJAY)
• Fire SIG
• First-Generation, Low-Income (FGLI)
• FOOD (FKA CAFÉ)
• Fresh & Salty (Water SIG)
• Green Chemistry SIG 
• GROUNDED
• Industrial Ecology and Environmental Management (IEME)
• International SIG
• International Society of Tropical Foresters student chapter
• Latin American SIG (LA SIG)
• Middle Eastern and North African SIG (MENA)
• Out in the Woods (OIW)
• Outdoor Rec Industry SIG
• Political Ecology SIG
• Resilience, Adaptation, & Disaster SIG
• Roots
• SAGE Magazine
• SCOPE SIG
• Society for Ecological Restoration (SER)
• Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribean (SDLAC)
• Sustainable Fashion SIG (SFAY)
• Sustainable Finance
• URBAN Environment
• Westies
• Woodworking SIG
• Yale Environment Women (YEW)
• Yale Environmental Law Association (YELA)
• Yale Ethnobotany and Mycology Society (YEMS)
• Yale Temperate Forestry

​The activities of these groups include sponsoring guest and student lectures, organizing field trips, sponsoring workshops, organizing social events, holding conferences, and interacting with regional divisions of their respective societies. If a student is interested in starting a new SIG they should contact SAC and the Office of Student Affairs at studentaffairs.yse@yale.edu.