Forestry & Environmental Studies

205 Prospect, 432.5100
http://environment.yale.edu
M.S., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Dean
James Gustave Speth

Director of Doctoral Studies
Gaboury Benoit (340 ESC, 432.5139, gaboury.benoit@yale.edu)

Professors Mark Ashton, Gaboury Benoit, Graeme Berlyn, William Burch, Jr., Benjamin Cashore, Lisa Curran, Michael Dove, Daniel Esty, Thomas Graedel, Timothy Gregoire, Stephen Kellert, Xuhui Lee, Robert Mendelsohn, Chadwick Oliver, James Saiers, Oswald Schmitz, David Skelly, James Gustave Speth, John Wargo

Associate Professors Marian Chertow, Peter Raymond, Karen Seto

Assistant Professors Robert Bailis, Michele Bell, Mark Bradford, Sheila Olmstead, Julie Zimmerman

Non-Ladder Faculty Paul Anastas, Shimon Anisfeld, Ellen Brennan-Galvin, Richard Burroughs, Ann Camp, Carol Carpenter, Susan Clark, Amity Doolittle, Paul Draghi, Helmut Ernstberger, Gordon Geballe, Bradford Gentry, John Grim, Arnulf Grubler, Lloyd Irland, Anthony Leiserowitz, Reid Lifset, Florencia Montagnini, Jonathan Reuning-Scherer, Mary Evelyn Tucker

Courtesy Joint Appointments Michelle Addington, James Axley, Ruth Blake, Adalgisa (Gisela) Caccone, David Cromwell, Michael Donoghue, Menachem Elimelech, Robert Evenson, Durland Fish, Willis Jenkins, Brian Leaderer, William Mitch, William Nordhaus, Jeffrey Powell, Richard Prum, James Scott, Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, Karl Turekian, Ernesto Zedillo

Visiting Faculty, Fellows, Adjunct Faculty, and Faculty with primary appointments elsewhere Dale Bryk, Maureen Burke, Douglas Daly, Mary Beth Decker, William Ellis, James Fickle, Emil Frankel, Lawrence Kelly, Roy Lee, Lye Lin Heng, James Lyons, James MacBroom, David Mattson, Fabian Michaelangeli, Arvid Nelson, John Nolon, Charles Peters, Stephen Ramsey, Nicholas Robinson, Dennis Stevenson, Fred Strebeigh, Simon Tay, Charles Dana Tomlin, Gerald Torres, William Vance, Helga Weixz, Gary Yohoe

Fields of Study

Fields include agroforestry; biodiversity conservation; biostatistics and biometry; community ecology; ecosystems ecology; ecosystems management; environmental biophysics and meteorology; environmental chemistry; environmental ethics; environmental governance; environmental health risk assessment; environmental history; environmental law and politics; environmental and resource policy; forest ecology; hydrology; industrial ecology; industrial environmental management; plant physiology and anatomy; pollution management; population ecology; resource economics; energy and the environment, silviculture, social ecology; stand development, tropical ecology and conservation; urban planning; water resource management; environmental management and social ecology in developing countries.

Special Admissions Requirements

Applicants should hold a bachelor’s or master’s degree in a field related to natural resources, such as forestry, or in a relevant discipline of the natural or social sciences, such as biology, chemistry, economics, or mathematics. The GRE General Test is required but Subject Tests are optional.

Special Requirements for the Ph.D. Degree

Students are required to take the Doctoral Student Seminar before the second term of their program. Aside from this requirement, there is no required curriculum of credit courses and no formal language requirement. Courses of study are individually designated through consultation between degree candidates and their advisers and dissertation committees. The amount of course work required will depend on the previous training of the student but the normal requirement for a student with no previous graduate training is three or four courses per term for four terms. The program of each student will be evaluated at the end of the first year of residence. At least two term grades of Honors are required in the first two years of study; however, it is anticipated that grades of Honors or High Pass will be achieved in two-thirds of all courses taken. A written and oral qualifying examination is required upon completion of the course requirements. Students are expected to take the examination by the end of their second or third term. All students must complete the examination at the end of their fourth term of study. At the time of the qualifying examination, the student must present a prospectus of the research work proposed for the dissertation. Successful completion of the qualifying examination and submission of the prospectus will result in admission to candidacy. Upon completion of the dissertation, the candidate must make unbound copies of the dissertation available to the faculty and appear for an oral examination at a time and place designated by the director of graduate studies. Copies of the approved dissertation must be submitted to the Graduate School, and one copy to the library of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Depending upon the nature of the dissertation topic, completion of the Ph.D. degree normally requires four years. Teaching and research experiences are regarded as integral parts of the graduate training program in Forestry & Environmental Studies. All students are required to serve as teaching fellows (10 hours per week) for two terms prior to the end of their fourth year of study. In addition, before the end of their fourth year of study, all doctoral students must complete a two-term research project/assistantship with their major adviser (10 hours per week). The nature of teaching assignments and research duties is determined in cooperation with the student’s major adviser and the director of graduate studies.

Master’s Degrees

M.Phil. (en route to the Ph.D.) Students may petition for this degree after they have passed the qualifying exam and advanced to candidacy. Applications for this master’s degree are not accepted.

M.S. (en route to the Ph.D.) This degree is normally granted only to students who are withdrawing from the Ph.D. program. Applications for this master’s degree are not accepted. Requirements that must be met for award of the M.S. are (1) successful completion of two years of course work in residence with two grades of Honors; (2) a written prospectus; (3) fulfillment of one term of the teaching requirement.

For information on the terminal master’s degrees offered by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (the Master of Forestry, Master of Forest Science, Master of Environmental Management, and Master of Environmental Science degrees) visit the School’s Web site, www.yale.edu/environment/, or contact Admissions Director, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, 205 Prospect Street, New Haven CT 06511.

Courses

For course descriptions, see the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies bulletin.

ECOLOGY

Ecosystem Ecology
[F&ES 551b, Tropical Ecosystem Dynamics and Anthropogenic Change]
F&ES 554a, Tropical Forest Ecology: The Basis for Conservation and Management
F&ES 555a, Ecosystem Pattern and Process
[F&ES 556b, Topics in the Tropics]
[F&ES 557a, Biogeography, Biodiversity, and Conservation]
[F&ES 558b, Tropical Field Botany]
F&ES 559b, Biological Oceanography
[E&EB 530a, Field Ecology]

Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Biology
[F&ES 560a, Aquatic Ecology]
[F&ES 561a, Species and Ecosystem Conservation: An Interdisciplinary Approach]
[F&ES 562b, Wildlife Conservation]
F&ES 564a, Landscape Ecology
F&ES 565b, Ecology Seminar
F&ES 566b, Community Ecology
[E&EB 315a, Molecular Systematics Laboratory]
[E&EB 617b, Topics in Evolutionary and Conservation Genetics]
[E&EB 620b, Conservation Genetics Seminar]
[E&EB 626a, Molecular Ecology]
[E&EB 675a, Molecular Ecology Seminar]

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION

F&ES 601a, Environmental Writing
F&ES 602a, Archetypes and the Environment
F&ES 900b, Doctoral Student Seminar

FORESTRY

Forest Biology
[F&ES 220b, Local Flora]
F&ES 650b, Fire: Science and Policy
F&ES 651b, Forest Ecosystem Health
F&ES 652b, Seminar in Ecological Restoration
F&ES 653b, Agroforestry Systems: Productivity, Environmental Services, and Rural Development
F&ES 654a, Structure, Function, and Development of Trees and Other Vascular Plants
[F&ES 655b, Research Methods in Anatomy and Physiology of Trees]
F&ES 656b, Physiology of Trees and Forests
F&ES 665a,b, Forest Carbon Science

Forest Management
F&ES 657b, Managing Resources
F&ES 658a, Global Resources and the Environment
F&ES 659b, Principles in Applied Ecology: The Practice of Silviculture
F&ES 660a, Forest Dynamics: Growth and Development of Forest Stands
[F&ES 661b, Analysis of Silvicultural Problems]
[F&ES 662a, Seminar in Advanced Silviculture]
[F&ES 663a, Invasive Species: Ecology, Policy, and Management]
F&ES 664a, Financial Analysis for Land Management
F&ES 666a, Management Plans for Protected Areas
[F&ES 667b, Rapid Assessments in Forest Conservation]
F&ES 668a,b, Field Trips in Forest Resource Management and Silviculture
F&ES 669b, Forest Management Operations for Professional Foresters
F&ES 670b, Southern Forest and Forestry Field Trip
F&ES 671a, Natural History and Taxonomy of Trees

PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Atmospheric Sciences
F&ES 700b, Alpine, Arctic, and Boreal Ecosystems Seminar
[F&ES 701a, Air Pollution]
[F&ES 702b, Climate Change Seminar]
F&ES 703b, Climate and Life
F&ES 704a, A Biological Perspective of Global Change
G&G 657a, Marine, Atmospheric, and Surficial Geochemistry

Environmental Chemistry
F&ES 443a, Analytical Chemistry
F&ES 701a, Air Pollution
[F&ES 705a,b, Seminar in Applied Environmental Chemistry]
F&ES 706a, Organic Pollutants in the Environment
F&ES 707b, Aquatic Chemistry
F&ES 708a, Biogeochemistry and Pollution
CENG 377b, Water Quality Control

Soil Science
F&ES 709a, Introduction to Soil Science

Water Resources
F&ES 710b, Coastal Ecosystem Governance
F&ES 711a, Munson Series: Arctic Seas and Melting Ice: Bellweather of a Warmer World
F&ES 712b, Water Resource Management
F&ES 713a, Coastal Ecosystems: Natural Processes and Anthropogenic Impacts
F&ES 714b, Environmental Hydrology
F&ES 715a, Hydrologic Modeling
F&ES 716b, Special Topics in Hydrology
[F&ES 718b, Applied Hydrology]
F&ES 719a, River Processes and Restoration
[F&ES 720a, Case Studies in Water Resources]
F&ES 721a, Lecture Series on China’s Environment

QUANTITATIVE AND RESEARCH METHODS

F&ES 750a, Seminar in Forest Inventory
F&ES 751a, Sampling Methodology and Practice
F&ES 753b, Regression Modeling of Ecological and Environmental Data
F&ES 754a, Introduction to Statistics in the Environmental Sciences
[F&ES 754b, Introduction to Spatial Statistics]
F&ES 755b, Modeling Geographic Space
F&ES 756a, Modeling Geographic Objects
F&ES 757b, Statistical Design of Experiments
F&ES 758b, Multivariate Statistical Analysis in the Environmental Sciences
F&ES 760a, Research Methods
F&ES 761a, Social Science Research Methods
F&ES 912a,b, Preparation for Research
ECON 550a, Econometrics I
G&G 562a, Remote Sensing: Observing the Earth from Space

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Economics
F&ES 800a, Economics of Pollution
F&ES 801b, Economics of Natural Resource Management
[F&ES 802b, Valuing the Environment]
F&ES 803b, The Economics of the Environment and Sustainable Development
F&ES 804b, The Economics of Climate Change
[F&ES 805b, Economics of Water Quality and Water Scarcity]
[F&ES 807a, Economics of the Environment]
[F&ES 901a, Doctoral Seminar in Environmental Economics]

Environmental Policy
[F&ES 808b, Seminar on Forest Certification]
[F&ES 809a, Environmental Policy Analysis for an Unpredictable World]
[F&ES 810b, Science and Politics of Environmental Regulation]
F&ES 811a, Environmental Politics and Policy
[F&ES 812a, Foundations of Environmental Policy and Politics]
F&ES 813b, Emerging Markets for Ecosystem Services
[F&ES 814b, Public-Private Partnerships: Lessons from the Water Sector]
[F&ES 815a, Corporate Social Responsibility]
F&ES 816b, Transportation and the Urban Future
F&ES 817a, Energy Systems Analysis
F&ES 818a, Technology, Society, and the Environment
F&ES 819b, Strategies for Land Conservation
F&ES 820b, Local Environmental Law and Land-Use Practices
F&ES 821a, Private Investment and the Environment: Legal Foundations and Tools
F&ES 822b, Transportation’s Role in a Changing Economy
F&ES 823a, History of the Environment and Ecological Science
F&ES 824b, Environmental Law and Policy
F&ES 825a, International Environmental Law and Policy
F&ES 826b, Foundations of Natural Resource Policy and Management
F&ES 827b, Large-Scale Conservation: Integrating Science, Management, and Policy
F&ES 828b, Comparative Environmental Law in Global Legal Systems
[F&ES 829b, International Environmental Policy and Governance]
F&ES 837b, Seminar on Leadership in Natural Resources and the Environment
F&ES 849a, Natural Resource Policy Practicum
F&ES 850a,b, International Organizations and Conferences
F&ES 851b, Environmental Diplomacy Practicum
F&ES 852a,b, Business and the Environment Clinic
F&ES 853a, Capitalism and Its Critics
F&ES 854b, Institutions and the Environment
F&ES 855b, Environmental Law and Governance: Global Concerns, Asian Challenges
AMST 839b, Readings in Environmental History
LAW 20316, Environmental Law Clinic
LAW 21581, Native American Law
MGT 618a, Entrepreneurial Business Planning

Social and Political Ecology
F&ES 831b, Society and Natural Resources
F&ES 832a, Society and Environment: Introduction to Theory and Method
[F&ES 833b, Seminar on “Values of the Natural Environment”]
F&ES 834a, Project in Ecosystem Management: General Applications
[F&ES 835b, Society and Environment: Advanced Readings]
F&ES 836a, Agrarian Societies: Culture, Society, History, and Development
F&ES 839a, Social Science of Development and Conservation
F&ES 840b, Social Science of Development and Conservation: Advanced Readings
F&ES 842a, Cities and Sustainability in the Developing World
F&ES 843b, Children and Nature: Evolutionary, Social-Psychological, and Practical Dimensions
F&ES 844b, Theory and Practice of Restorative Environmental Design
F&ES 845a, Energy Issues in Developing Countries
F&ES 846a, Topics in Environmental Justice
F&ES 847a, Leaves, Livelihoods, and Landscapes: Ecology, Socio-Economics, and Politics of Development Across Borneo
F&ES 848b, Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation
F&ES 856b, Introduction to Environmental Ethics
F&ES 857b, Urbanization, Global Change, and Sustainability
[F&ES 858a, Environmental Theologies]
ANTH 572a, Disaster, Degradation, Dystopia: Social Science Approaches to Environmental Perturbation and Change
ANTH 582b, Households, Communities, Gender (for Development and Conservation)
ARCH 903a, Introduction to Planning and Development
REL 817b, World Religions and Ecology: Asian Religions
[REL 872a, Seminar on World Religions and Ecology]
[REL 875a, Global Ethics and Sustainable Development]
RLST 119b, Bioethics, Health, and Human Flourishing
RLST 837bu, American Indian Religions and Ecology

INTERDISCIPLINARY

Professional and Environmental Ethics
F&ES 916a, Professional Ethics: Orientation to the Field

Health and Environment
[F&ES 903b, Environmental Health Policy]
F&ES 904b, The Environment and Human Health
F&ES 915a, Assessing Exposures to Environmental Stressors
EHS 503b, Introduction to Toxicology
[EHS 511a, Applied Risk Assessment I]

Environmental Management and Technology
[F&ES 905a, Greening the Industrial Facility]
F&ES 906b, Industrial Ecology
F&ES 907b, Advanced Industrial Ecology Seminar
F&ES 908a, Corporate Environmental Management and Strategy
F&ES 909b, Caribbean Coastal Development: Cesium and CZM
F&ES 910b, Green Engineering and Sustainability
F&ES 911a, Greening Business Operations
F&ES 913a, The Ecology of Society
F&ES 914a, Management and the Environment: Issues and Topics
MGT 528a, Public and Private Management of the Environment

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