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

• Accessibility SIG
• Africa SIG
• Asia SIG
• Birding SIG
• Climate Change
• ConBio (Society for Conservation Biology)
• Conservation Finance
• Economic Considerations of Nature (ECON)
• Energy SIG (ESIG)
• Environmental Data Science at Yale (EDSY)
• Environment Film Festival 
• 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 Society of Tropical Foresters (ISTF)
• Latin American SIG (LA SIG)
• Middle Eastern and North African SIG (MENA)
• Out in the Woods (OIW)
• Outdoor Rec Industry SIG
• Plant Based at Yale 
• 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)
• Westies
• Woodworking SIG
• Yale Environment Women (YEW)
• Yale Temperate Forestry
• YSE Create Club

​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.