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The President and Fellows of Yale University

President
Richard Charles Levin, B.A., B.LITT., PH.D.

Fellows
Her Excellency the Governor of Connecticut, ex officio
His Honor the Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, ex officio
George Leonard Baker, Jr., B.A., M.B.A., Palo Alto, California
Edward Perry Bass, B.S., Fort Worth, Texas
Roland Whitney Betts, B.A., J.D., New York, New York
Jeffrey Lawrence Bewkes, B.A., M.B.A., New York, New York
Peter Brendan Dervan, B.S., Ph.D., San Marino, California (June 2014)
Donna Lee Dubinsky, B.A., M.B.A., Portola Valley, California
Mimi Gardner Gates, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Seattle, Washington (June 2013)
Paul Lewis Joskow, B.A., Ph.D., Locust Valley, New York
Jeffrey Powell Koplan, B.A., M.D., M.P.H., Atlanta, Georgia (June 2009)
Margaret Hilary Marshall, B.A., M.Ed., J.D., Cambridge, Massachusetts (June 2010)
William Irwin Miller, B.A., M.B.A., Columbus, Indiana (June 2011)
Indra Nooyi, B.S., M.B.A., M.P.P.M., Greenwich, Connecticut
Barrington Daniels Parker, B.A., LL.B., Stamford, Connecticut
Douglas Alexander Warner III, B.A., New York, New York
Margaret Garrard Warner, B.A., Washington, D.C. (June 2012)
Fareed Zakaria, B.A., Ph.D., New York, New York

The Officers of Yale University

President
Richard Charles Levin, B.A., B.Litt., Ph.D.

Provost
Andrew David Hamilton, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S.

Vice President and Secretary
Linda Koch Lorimer, B.A., J.D.

Vice President and General Counsel
Dorothy Kathryn Robinson, B.A., J.D.

Vice President for New Haven and State Affairs and Campus Development
Bruce Donald Alexander, B.A., J.D.

Vice President for Development
Ingeborg Theresia Reichenbach, Staatsexamen

Vice President for Finance and Administration
Shauna Ryan King, B.S., M.B.A.

Faculty and Administration

Faculty Emeriti
Frederick Herbert Bormann, M.A., Ph.D., Oastler Professor Emeritus of Forest Ecology
George Mason Furnival, M.F., D.F., J. P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Forest Management
John Charles Gordon, Ph.D., Pinchot Professor Emeritus of Forestry and Environmental Studies
David Martyn Smith, M.F., Ph.D., Sc.D., Morris K. Jesup Professor Emeritus of Silviculture
William Hulse Smith, M.F., Ph.D., Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Forest Biology

Board of Permanent Officers
Richard Charles Levin, B.Litt., Ph.D., President of the University
Andrew Hamilton, Ph.D., F.R.S., Provost of the University
James Gustave Speth, M.Litt., J.D., Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean, and Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor in the Practice of Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development
Mark S. Ashton, M.F., Ph.D., Morris K. Jesup Professor of Silviculture; Professor of Forest Ecology; and Director of School Forests
Gaboury Benoit, M.S., Ph.D., The Grinstein Class of 1954 Professor of Environmental Chemistry; Associate Dean for Research; Professor of Environmental Engineering; Director, Hixon Center for Urban Ecology; Director, Center for Coastal and Watershed Systems; and Director of Doctoral Studies
Graeme Pierce Berlyn, Ph.D., E. H. Harriman Professor of Forest Management; Professor of Anatomy and Physiology of Trees; and Editor, Journal of Sustainable Forestry
William Richard Burch, Jr., M.S., Ph.D., Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Natural Resource Management; Professor at the Institute for Social and Policy Studies; and Director, Urban Resources Initiative
*Benjamin Cashore, M.A., Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Policy and Governance and Political Science; and Director, Program on Forest Policy and Governance
†Lisa M. Curran, M.A., Ph.D., Professor of Tropical Resources and Director, Tropical Resources Institute
†Michael Roger Dove, M.A., Ph.D., Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology; Professor of Anthropology; and Coordinator, F&ES/Anthropology Degree Program
Daniel C. Esty, M.A., J.D., Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy; Clinical Professor, Law School; Director, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy; and Director, Center for Business and the Environment at Yale
Thomas Eldon Graedel, M.A., M.S., Ph.D., Clifton R. Musser Professor of Industrial Ecology; Professor of Chemical Engineering; Professor of Geology and Geophysics; and Director, Center for Industrial Ecology
Timothy G. Gregoire, Ph.D., J. P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr. Professor of Forest Management
Stephen Robert Kellert, Ph.D., Tweedy/Ordway Professor of Social Ecology
Xuhui Lee, M.Sc., Ph.D., Professor of Forest Meteorology and Micrometeorology
†Robert Mendelsohn, Ph.D., Edwin Weyerhaeuser Davis Professor of Forest Policy; Professor of Economics; and Professor, School of Management
Chadwick Dearing Oliver, M.F.S, Ph.D., Pinchot Professor of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Director, Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry
James E. Saiers, M.S., Ph.D., Professor of Hydrology
Oswald J. Schmitz, M.Sc., Ph.D., Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
David K. Skelly, Ph.D., Professor of Ecology and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
John Peter Wargo, Ph.D., Professor of Risk Analysis, Environmental Policy, and Political Science; Director, Environment and Health Initiative; and Co-Chair of the Environmental Studies Program, Yale College

Ladder Faculty
Robert Bailis, M.S., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Environmental Social Science
Michelle L. Bell, M.S.E., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Environmental Health
Mark A. Bradford, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology
‡Marian R. Chertow, M.P.P.M., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Industrial Environmental Management; Director, Program on Solid Waste Policy; and Director, Industrial Environmental Management Program
Sheila Olmstead, M.P.Aff., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Environmental Economics
‡Peter A. Raymond, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Ecosystem Ecology
Karen Seto, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Julie B. Zimmerman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Green Engineering and Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

Non-Ladder Faculty
Paul Anastas, Ph.D., Professor in the Practice of Green Chemistry; Senior Research Scientist in Chemical Engineering; and Lecturer, Department of Chemistry
Shimon C. Anisfeld, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer and Research Scientist in Water Resources Environmental Chemistry
Ellen Brennan-Galvin, Ph.D., Lecturer and Senior Research Scholar
Richard Burroughs, Ph.D., Professor (Adjunct) of Coastal Science and Policy
Ann E. Camp, M.F.S., Ph.D., Senior Lecturer and Research Scientist in Stand Dynamics and Forest Health
Carol Carpenter, M.A., Ph.D., Senior Lecturer and Associate Research Scholar in Natural Resource Social Science and Adjunct Lecturer in Anthropology
Susan Gail Clark, M.S., Ph.D., Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Adjunct Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Policy
Amity Doolittle, M.E.S., Ph.D., Lecturer and Associate Research Scientist
Paul Alexander Draghi, M.A., M.A., Ph.D., Director of Information Technology and Lecturer in Forest History
Helmut Ernstberger, Ph.D., Lecturer; Associate Research Scientist; and Analytical Laboratory Manager
Gordon T. Geballe, M.S., Ph.D., Associate Dean for Student and Alumni Affairs and Lecturer in Urban Ecology
Bradford S. Gentry, J.D., Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Investments; Research Scholar; Director, Center for Business and the Environment at Yale; and Director, Research Program on Private Investment and the Environment
John Grim, Ph.D., Senior Research Scholar and Senior Lecturer
Arnulf Grubler, Ph.D., Professor in the Field of Energy and Technology
Lloyd Irland, Ph.D., Lecturer and Senior Research Scientist
Anthony Leiserowitz, Ph.D., Research Scientist and Director of Strategic Initiatives
Reid J. Lifset, M.S., M.P.P.M., Associate Research Scholar; Associate Director, Industrial Environmental Management Program; and Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Industrial Ecology
Florencia Montagnini, M.S., Ph.D., Professor in the Practice of Tropical Forestry and Director of the Program in Tropical Forestry of the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry
Jonathan D. Reuning-Scherer, Ph.D., Lecturer in Statistics
Thomas G. Siccama, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer
Mary Evelyn Tucker, Ph.D., Senior Research Scholar and Senior Lecturer

*On leave of absence, fall 2008
†On leave of absence, spring 2009
‡On leave of absence, 2008–2009 academic year

Courtesy Joint Appointments

Michelle Addington, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Architecture
James W. Axley, M.Arch., M.S., Ph.D., Professor of Architecture
Ruth Elaine Blake, M.S., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Geology and Geophysics
Adalgisa (Gisella) Caccone, M.S., Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
David Cromwell, Ph.D., Professor (Adjunct), School of Management
Michael Donoghue, Ph.D., Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Menachem Elimelech, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Engineering
Robert Eugene Evenson, Ph.D., Professor of Economics
Durland Fish, Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
Willis Jenkins, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Social Ethics, Divinity School
Brian P. Leaderer, Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine
William Mitch, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
William Nordhaus, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Economics
Jeffrey Powell, Ph.D., Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Richard Prum, Ph.D., William Robertson Coe Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Curator of Vertebrate Zoology, Peabody Museum
James C. Scott, Ph.D., Eugene Mayer Professor of Political Science; Professor of Anthropology; and Director, Program in Agrarian Studies, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies
Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology
Ronald B. Smith, Ph.D., Professor of Geology and Geophysics and Mechanical Engineering; and Director, Yale Center for Earth Observation
Karl Turekian, Ph.D., Benjamin Silliman Professor of Geology and Geophysics and Director, Institute for Biospheric Studies
Ernesto Zedillo, Ph.D., Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and Professor in the Field of International Economics and International Relations

Visiting Faculty, Fellows, Adjunct Faculty, and Faculty with Primary Appointments Elsewhere
Dale S. Bryk, M.A., J.D., Lecturer in Environmental Law
Maureen Burke, M.B.A., Lecturer
Douglas C. Daly, Ph.D., Associate Professor (Adjunct)
Mary Beth Decker, Ph.D., Lecturer
William Ellis, Ph.D., Senior Visiting Fellow; Lecturer; and Resident Fellow in Industrial Environmental Management
James Fickle, Ph.D., Visiting Professor
Emil H. Frankel, B.A., LL.B., Lecturer
Lawrence Kelly, Ph.D., Associate Professor (Adjunct)
Roy S. Lee, Ph.D., Professor (Adjunct)
Lin Heng Lye, LL.M., Visiting Associate Professor
James R. Lyons, M.F., Lecturer and Research Scholar
James G. MacBroom, P.E., Lecturer in River Processes and Restoration
David Mattson, Ph.D., Visiting Senior Research Scientist
Fabian Michaelangeli, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (Adjunct)
Arvid Nelson, Ph.D., Lecturer
John R. Nolon, J.D., Visiting Professor
Charles M. Peters, M.F.S., Ph.D., Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Tropical Ecology
Stephen Ramsey, Senior Visiting Fellow and Lecturer
Nicholas Robinson, Ph.D., Professor (Adjunct)
Marjorie Shansky, J.D., Lecturer
Dennis W. Stevenson, Ph.D., Professor (Adjunct) of Tropical Studies
Fred Strebeigh, B.A., Senior Lecturer in Environmental Writing
Simon S. C. Tay, Ph.D., Visiting Associate Professor (spring term)
Charles Dana Tomlin, Ph.D., Visiting Professor
Gerald Torres, J.D., Visiting Professor and McClasky Fellow (spring term)
William Vance, Ph.D., Lecturer
Helga Weisz, Ph.D., Visiting Associate Professor (fall term)
Gary Yohe, Ph.D., Visiting Professor of Economics

Research Appointments
Daniel Abbasi, M.B.A., Research Affiliate
Ruth Allen, Ph.D., Research Affiliate
Donald E. Aylor, M.E.S., Ph.D., Research Affiliate in Biometeorology
Mary K. Berlyn, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist
Frederick Herbert Bormann, M.A., Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist
Ian Cameron, M.F., Research Affiliate
Douglas A. Clark, Ph.D., Research Affiliate
John Ehrenfeld, Sc.D., Senior Research Scholar
Nina Eisenmenger, Ph.D., Research Affiliate
Michael Ferrucci, M.F., Research Affiliate
Lauri K. Freidenberg, Ph.D., Associate Research Scholar
Eva Garen, Ph.D., Research Affiliate
Jefferson Hall, Ph.D., Research Affiliate
A.L. Hammett III, Ph.D., Research Affiliate
Ermelinda Harper, Ph.D., Research Affiliate
Seiji Hashimoto, Ph.D., Visiting Fellow
Harri Kalimo, Ph.D., Research Affiliate
Laly Lichtenfeld, Ph.D., Research Affiliate
Javier Mateo-Vega, M.A., Research Affiliate
Derek Murrow, M.E.M., Research Affiliate
Helen Mills Poulos, Ph.D., Research Affiliate
Yang Qiu, Ph.D., Visiting Fellow
Michael A. Rechlin, Ph.D., Research Affiliate
Barbara Reck, M.S.Eng., Associate Research Scientist
David Rejeski, Visiting Fellow
V. Alaric Sample, Ph.D., Research Affiliate
R. Neil Sampson, M.P.A., Research Affiliate
Oliver Schabenberger, Ph.D., Research Affiliate
Yajie Song, Ph.D., Research Scholar
Rajesh Thadani, Ph.D., Research Affiliate
Anitra Thorhaug, Ph.D., Research Affiliate
Talbot Trotter III, Associate Research Scientist
Mark Twery, Ph.D., Research Affiliate
Harry T. Valentine, Ph.D., Research Affiliate
Seth Wilson, Ph.D., Research Affiliate
Yue Dongxia, Ph.D., Research Affiliate
Zhou Jingbo, Ph.D., Research Affiliate

Center and Program and Research Staff
Amy Badner, Senior Administrative Assistant, Center for Business and the Environment at Yale
Susan Rae Bolden, M.S., Research Assistant
Richard Campbell, M.F., Manager, School Forests
Jing Cao, M.A., Data Coordinator/Statistician, Center for Industrial Ecology
Beverly Chevalier, B.A., Administrative Associate, International Society for Industrial Ecology
Gary Dunning, M.F., Executive Director, The Forests Dialogue
Ysella Edyvean, B.A., Senior Administrative Assistant, Center for Environmental Law and Policy
Bryan Garcia, M.E.M., Program Director, Center for Business and the Environment
Melissa Goodall, M.S., Associate Director, Center for Environmental Law and Policy
Edward Gordon, M.S., Ph.D., Editor, Journal of Industrial Ecology
Jonas Karosas, Laboratory Assistant
Christine Kim, Research Associate, Center for Environmental Law and Policy
Colleen Murphy-Dunning, M.S., Center Director, Hixon Center for Urban Ecology, and Program Director, Urban Resources Initiative
P. Christopher Ozyck, B.S., Greenspace Coordinator, Urban Resources Initiative
Justin Pegnataro, B.S., Environmental Education Coordinator, Urban Resources Initiative
Melanie Quigley, B.S., Program Coordinator, Center for Industrial Ecology and Industrial Environmental Management Program
Barbara Ruth, M.Phil., Coordinator, Global Institute for Sustainable Forestry
Martha McCormick Smith, M.E.M., Program Director, Center for Coastal and Watershed Systems
Mary Tyrrell, M.B.A., M.F.S., Executive Director, Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry, and Program Director, Program on Private Forests
Paul-Bendiks Walberg, M.B.A., Deputy Director, Center for Biodiversity, Conservation, and Science
Kristen Welsh, M.E.M., Program Facilitator, Tropical Resources Institute

Administrative Staff
Mariann Adams, Administrative Assistant, Career Development
Mary Andrew, Senior Administrative Assistant, Development
Elisabeth Barsa, B.A., Senior Administrative Assistant, Doctoral Program
Laurie Bozzuto, Administrative Assistant, Faculty Suport
J. Alan Brewster, M.P.A., Deputy Dean and Research Scholar
Robin Buccino, Financial Assistant, Business Office
Marci Burrell, Financial Assistant IV, Business Office
Roger Cohn, B.A., Senior Editor, Yale Environment 360
Jane Coppock, M.E.M., Ph.D., Assistant Dean and Editor, F&ES Publication Series
Israel Cordero, Building Maintenance Assistant, Facilities
Andrew Daly, Coordinator, Development
Joanne E. DeBernardo, B.S., Registrar and Director of Student Affairs
Timothy De Cerbo, Administrative Assistant, Faculty Support
Deborah DeFord, B.A., Coordinator, Alumni Affairs
David DeFusco, B.S., Director of Communications
Kathryn Douglas, M.F.A., M.F.A., Assistant Director of Career Development, Career Services
Emily Enderle, M.E.M., Associate Director of Admissions
Lisa Fernandez, M.E.S., Program Manager, Strategic Initiatives
Matthew Garrett, B.F.A., Web Communications Manager
Eugénie I. Gentry, B.A., Director of Development
Nickelle Gilbert, M.S., Office Assistant, Business Office
Florence Grandelli, Director of Human Resources and Payroll
Dennis I. Grove, B.S., M.B.A., Coordinator, Business Office
Robert Hartmann, Computer Support, Information Systems
Linda Jacobs, Senior Administrative Assistant, Financial Aid
Lisa Kamemoto, M.I.B., Director, Financial Aid
Marilyn Kurtz, J.D., Senior Administrative Assistant, Communications
Victoria Manders, Dip.F.M., Senior Administrative Assistant, Dean’s Office
Nancy Marino, Office Assistant, Facilities
Catherine J. Marshall, M.P.A., Senior Administrative Assistant II, Dean’s Office
Emly McDiarmid, M.F.S., Director of Admissions
Eleanor Migliore, M.S., M.L.S., Senior Administrative Assistant II, Faculty Support
Luz Miranda, B.S., Financial Assistant IV, Business Office
Kelly Molloy, Senior Administrative Assistant, Information Systems
Pilar M. Montalvo, M.A., Assistant Dean
Denise Mrazik, A.S., Senior Administrative Assistant, Business Office
Timothy Northrop, M.E.M., Deputy Director, Development
Stanton C. Otis, Jr., M.Ed., Director of Career Development
Shiva Prasad, B.S., Computer and Information Systems Support Specialist
Karen Primavera, R.M.A., Office Assistant, Facilities
Ann Prokop, M.A., Administrative Assistant, Faculty Support
Quetcy Rivas Maldonado, Senior Administrative Assistant II, Admissions
Scott Rumage, Support Technician, Information Systems
Sherry Ryan, B.B.A., Senior Administrative Assistant, Dean’s Office
Dominic Scalia, Facilities Manager
Kathleen Schomaker, M.E.S., M.Phil., Director of Alumni Affairs
Sarah Shrewsbury, B.A., Major Gifts Officer, Development
Rosanne Stoddard, Senior Administrative Assistant, Registrar’s Office
Veronica Taylor, A.S., Administrative Assistant, Faculty Support
Thomas Tuscano, M.B.A., Director of Finance and Administration
William Walker, Administrative Assistant, Faculty Support
Bethany Zemba, M.P.A., Associate Director of Research and Postdoctoral Programs

Henry S. Graves Memorial Library
Carla Heister, M.A., M.S., Librarian
Fei Huang, B.S., Catalog Assistant
Adiba Nabizada, M.S., Library Services Assistant

A Message from the Dean

Over the century since its founding, the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies has evolved from a professional school of forestry to perhaps the world’s finest training ground for tomorrow’s environmental leaders. Research and teaching efforts have expanded to include not only forestry but also the fundamental concerns that today comprise the challenge of environmental management.

One of the central goals of our School today is nothing less than the building of a new interdisciplinary academic field called “environment.” It is the rigorous scientific study of the interactions between human societies and the natural world. Knowledge generated in this new field becomes the basis for environmental management. Societies need a generation of professionals trained in environmental management, and we also need knowledge of the environment to infuse the traditional professions—business, law, science and engineering, medicine, and others—and to motivate a revolution in personal choice as each of us carries out daily life.

The School provides a broad-gauged educational experience that equips its graduates to assume influential roles in government, business, nongovernmental organizations, public and international affairs, journalism, research, and education. The faculty and I will continue to direct our teaching and research efforts to solve local, national, and global problems. Drawing on such considerations as those listed below, we will continue to evaluate and expand our existing programs.

• Human alterations of the biosphere have reached critical levels. As a result, nations face a new generation of global-scale environmental challenges, including climate change, ozone depletion, deforestation, loss of biological diversity, and the deterioration of agricultural resources. Meanwhile, challenges such as sustainable forest management and pollution abatement persist.
• Many solutions to today’s environmental challenges lie outside the established environmental sector, and require a fusion of environmental and economic thinking and a willingness on the part of business, government, and environmental leaders to work together to integrate goals. Environmental objectives need to be incorporated into corporate planning, energy strategy, technology policy, R&D funding, tax policy, international trade and finance, development assistance, and other matters that once seemed far removed.
• Cooperation between developing and industrial countries is critical, with current progress hampered by a desperate shortage of trained personnel and human capacity.
• The increased awareness that environmental concerns are moving into the international arena will require that U.S. environmental policy be more in concert with other nations, thus giving birth to a new field of environmental diplomacy.

I hope and expect that those of you entering the School at this time as students will join me in shaping its future and exerting a positive influence on the prospects for environmental progress. I encourage you to use this bulletin as a means to explore how F&ES can help facilitate your goals. Please visit our Web site (environment.yale.edu) to get an inside view of the dynamics and energy that will make F&ES an ideal place to continue your education.

James Gustave Speth
Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean
Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor in the Practice of Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development

Mission of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies prepares new leaders and creates new knowledge to sustain and restore the long-term health of the biosphere and the well-being of its people.

We recognize that environmental challenges are increasingly international and seek to build a truly global school of the environment.

We believe that the human enterprise can and must be conducted in harmony with the environment, using natural resources in ways that sustain those resources and ourselves.

We believe that solving environmental problems must incorporate human values and motivations and a deep respect for human and natural communities.

We seek to integrate concern for Earth’s ecosystems with the goal of achieving social equity.

We believe that a school of the environment must also be a school of sustainable development.

We find strength in our collegiality, diversity, independence, and commitment to excellence.

We educate women and men to guide human activity at the local, national, and global levels with a comprehensive understanding of the environmental, economic, and social consequences of their choices.

We create new knowledge in the science of sustainability and new methods of applying that knowledge to the challenge of environmental management, the restoration of degraded environments, and the pursuit of sustainable development.

We collaborate with all sectors of society to achieve fair and effective solutions to environmental problems.

For over one hundred years, first as a pioneering school of forestry, Yale has marshaled the expertise of diverse disciplines in the service of responsible stewardship of the environment. As the world’s population grows and development accelerates, conserving the beauty, diversity, and integrity of the natural world becomes at once more important and more challenging.

We reaffirm our belief that such conservation is a practical and moral imperative.

History of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

Yale University has played a leading role in the development of American conservation and natural resource management since the 1800s, when such Yale graduates as William Henry Brewer, Othniel C. Marsh, Clarence King, and George Bird Grinnell were deeply involved with the exploration of the West and the proper use of Western resources. In 1900 that tradition was strengthened further when the University established the Yale Forest School. The men responsible for establishing the School were Gifford Pinchot, B.A. 1889, LL.D. 1925, and Henry S. Graves, B.A. 1892, LL.D. 1940. Pinchot was the first American to receive professional forestry training in Europe, and Graves the second. As consulting foresters and later from within the government’s Division of Forestry, they carried out on private lands the first examples of forest management in the United States. The School was founded with a gift from the Pinchot family to ensure a continuing supply of professionals to carry out the work that lay ahead.

Pinchot, who became one of the leading figures in the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt, created the USDA Forest Service and served as its first chief. Credited with coining the phrase “conservation of natural resources,” he defined conservation as the wise use of the Earth for the good of present and future generations.

Since its founding, it has been the School’s mission to turn Pinchot’s vision of conservation into educational and professional reality. Leading that quest until 1940 was the School’s first head (and later, dean) and intellectual leader, Henry S. Graves. To Graves, graduate education, like that in law and medicine, would define the new profession. Over the years, objectives have broadened, the mission has been interpreted differently, and methods of instruction have changed. Each decade has presented its singular challenges, and the School has responded vigorously to the leading problems of the day. In 1972 its name was changed to the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, in formal recognition of the School’s belief that it is concerned, in the broadest sense, with the scientific understanding and long-term management of ecosystems for human benefit.

During the academic year 2000–2001, the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies celebrated the achievements of its graduates and faculty and its first one hundred years of teaching and research with a series of centennial events. The School convened alumni/ae and friends from around the world for three days of celebration and discussion of the environmental challenges facing the world in coming decades. In addition, the School hosted eight major figures as centennial lecturers on critical global environmental issues, and cosponsored a panel discussion featuring four preeminent environmental journalists with Yale’s Poynter Fellows in Journalism program, the first such panel of Poynter Fellows to focus on environmental issues.

As Yale’s Environment School heads into its second century, research and teaching are focused on the following broad areas: ecology, ecosystems, and biodiversity; environmental management and social ecology in developing societies; forest science and management; global change science and policy; health and environment; industrial environmental management; policy, economics, and the law; urban ecology, environmental planning, design, and values; and coastal and watershed systems. Under the leadership of Dean James Gustave Speth, the School is determined to extend its scope to the greatest extent possible to meet the profound global environmental challenges the world faces in the twenty-first century.

Statement of Environmental Policy

As faculty, staff, and students of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, we affirm our commitment to responsible stewardship of the environment of our School, our University, the city of New Haven, and the other sites of our teaching, research, professional, and social activities.

In the course of these activities, we shall strive to:

• reduce our use of natural resources;
• support the sustainable production of the resources we must use by purchasing renewable, reusable, recyclable, and recycled materials;
• minimize our use of toxic substances and ensure that unavoidable use is in full compliance with federal, state, and local environmental regulations;
• reduce the amount of waste we generate and promote strategies to reuse and recycle those wastes that cannot be avoided; and
• restore the environment where possible.

Each member of the School community is encouraged to set an example for others by serving as an active steward of our environment.

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