The first “net zero” building at UVM, the Aiken Center honors Vermont's distinguished late senator and governor. The Rubenstein School community, along with Maclay Architects of Waitsfield, Vermont, created a green, renovated Aiken Center, designed for more efficient space and sustainability.

This facility is shared by USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station scientists and staff in partnership with Rubenstein School faculty, staff, and students. Personnel are co-located at the Aiken Center on UVM campus and this Forestry Sciences Laboratory about a mile from campus.

An extension of the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources located at the ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain on the Burlington waterfront, this laboratory houses state-of-the-art research and teaching facilities.

The Environmental Program is a community of ideas, scholars, teachers, student-teachers, and engagement that spans across the UVM campus, across the state of Vermont, and in some ways across the globe. The fabric of this big umbrella is UVM’s undergraduate student body studying the environment.

With staff that are part of the Rubenstein School, FEMC serves the northeast temperate forest region through improved understanding of long-term trends, annual conditions, and interdisciplinary relationships of the physical, chemical, and biological components of forested ecosystems.

At the heart of the Gund Institute for Environment are research programs that aim to develop new ideas, test existing theories, and put the best of both into real-world practice. Gund fellows, post-docs, and students investigate interactions among ecological, social, and economic systems.

The Hubbard Brook Consortium is a collaborative of scientific and academic institutions with active research at Hubbard Brook. Situated in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study is one of the world's most comprehensive and longest-running studies of its kind.

Lake Champlain Sea Grant is a cooperative program of the University of Vermont Rubenstein School and State University of New York Plattsburgh and part of a national network coordinated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research Program in the Rubenstein School is funded through the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture as a formula-based program for forestry and natural resources research at land-grant and related universities.

The Northeastern States Research Cooperative (NSRC) is a competitive research grant program jointly directed by the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station and a designated institution, including the University of Vermont Rubenstein School, in each of the four Northern Forest states.

NIACS is a collaborative effort among the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, universities, and forest industry to provide information on managing forests for climate change adaptation, enhanced carbon sequestration, and sustainable production of bioenergy and materials.

The USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station scientists and staff in partnership with Rubenstein School faculty, staff, and students share the George D. Aiken Forestry Sciences Laboratory, a Rubenstein School facility located about a mile from UVM campus on Spear Street.