Forestry & Environmental Studies
205 Prospect, 432.5100
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, John Wargo
Associate Professors
Marian Chertow, Peter Raymond
Assistant Professors
Robert Bailis, Michele Bell, 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, Arnulf Grubler, Lloyd Irland, Reid Lifset, Florencia Montagnini, Robert Repetto, Jonathan Reuning-Scherer, Thomas Siccama, Lisa Welp
Courtesy Joint Appointments
Michelle Addington, James Axley, Ruth Blake, Adalgisa (Gisela) Caccone, David Cromwell, Michael Donoghue, Menachem Elimelech, Robert Evenson, Willis Jenkins, Brian Leaderer, William Mitch, William Nordhaus, Jeffrey Powell, Richard Prum, James Scott, Ronald Smith, Stephen Stearns, Karl Turekian, Ernesto Zedillo
Visiting Faculty, Fellows, Adjunct Faculty, and Faculty with Primary Appointments Elsewhere
Dale Bryk, Maureen Burke, Chou Loke Ming, Douglas Daly, Mary Beth Decker, William Ellis, James Fickle, John Grim, Calestous Juma, Roy Lee, Lye Lin Heng, Lawrence Kelly, James Lyons, James MacBroom, Fabian Michaelangeli, Arvid Nelson, John Nolon, Charles Peters, Nicholas Robinson, Dennis Stevenson, Fred Strebeigh, Charles Dana Tomlin, Mary Evelyn Tucker, William Vance
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
Ecology
Ecosystem Ecology
F&ES 550b, Methods of Ecosystem Analysis.
[F&ES 551b, Tropical Ecosystem Dynamics and Anthropogenic Change.]
[F&ES 552b, Seminar in the Conservation and Development of Amazonia.]
[F&ES 553b, Reconciling Development and Conservation on the Amazon Frontier: A Tropical Conservation Field Course.]
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.]
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 563a, Human Dimensions in the Conservation of Biological Diversity.]
F&ES 564a, Landscape Ecology.
F&ES 565b, Ecology Seminar.
F&ES 566b, Community Ecology.
F&ES 567a, Marine Conservation.
Environmental Education and Communication
[F&ES 600a, Issues and Approaches in Environmental Education.]
F&ES 601a, Environmental Writing.
F&ES 602b, Archetypes and the Environment.
F&ES 900a, Doctoral Student Seminar.
Forestry
Forest Biology
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, Anatomy of Trees and Forests.
F&ES 655b, Research Methods in Anatomy and Physiology of Trees.
F&ES 656b, Physiology of Trees and Forests.
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 661a, 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.
Physical Sciences
Atmospheric Sciences
[F&ES 700b, Alpine, Arctic, and Boreal Ecosystems.]
[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.
Environmental Chemistry
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.
Soil Science
F&ES 709a, Introduction to Soil Science.
Water Resources
F&ES 710b, Coastal Ecosystem Governance.
F&ES 711a, The Future of Fisheries: Overharvested or Sustainably Managed?
[F&ES 712a, Water Resource Management.]
F&ES 713a, Coastal Ecosystems: Natural Processes and Anthropogenic Impacts.
[F&ES 714a, Environmental Hydrology.]
[F&ES 715b, Hydrologic Modeling.]
[F&ES 716b, Special Topics in Hydrology.]
[F&ES 717b, Hydrology and Water Resources.]
[F&ES 718b, Applied Hydrology.]
F&ES 719a, River Processes and Restoration.
F&ES 720a, Case Studies in Water Resources.
Quantitative and Research Materials
F&ES 912a,b, Preparation for Research.
[F&ES 750a, Seminar in Forest Inventory.]
F&ES 751a, Sampling Methodology and Practice.
F&ES 752b, Applied Spatial Statistics.
F&ES 753b, Statistics for Environmental Sciences.
F&ES 754a, Introduction to Statistics in the Environmental Sciences.
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 759a, Business Concepts for Environmental Managers.
Social Sciences
Economics
[F&ES 800b, Economics of Pollution.]
[F&ES 801a, Economics of Natural Resource Management.]
F&ES 802b, Valuing the Environment.
F&ES 803b, The Economics of Sustainable Development.
F&ES 804b, The Economics of the Climate Issue.
[F&ES 805b, Economics of Water Quality and Water Scarcity.]
F&ES 901a, Doctoral Seminar in Environmental Economics.
[F&ES 806b, Financial Markets and the Environment.]
F&ES 807a, Economics of the Environment.
Environmental Policy and Law
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, Markets, Social and Environmental Certification, and Corporate Accountability.
F&ES 816b, Transportation and Urban Land-Use Planning: Shaping the Twenty-First-Century City.
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.
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.
F&ES 829b, International Environmental Policy and Governance.
Social and Political Ecology
F&ES 830a, Social Ecology, Field Research Methods, and Techniques for Biodiversity Protection and Community Development.
F&ES 831b, Society and Natural Resources.
F&ES 832a, Society and Environment: Introduction to Theory and Method.
[F&ES 833b, Seminar on “Values and Perception 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 838b, Political Ecology in Sub-Saharan Africa.]
F&ES 902a,b, Dove/Carpenter Social Ecology Doctoral Lab.
F&ES 839a, Social Science of Development and Conservation.
F&ES 840b, Social Science of Development and Conservation: Advanced Readings.
F&ES 841b, Monitoring and Evaluation Techniques: Theory and Methods Applied to Ecosystem Rehabilitation/Community Revitalization Interventions.
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 Mitigation and Development in Developing Nations.
Interdisciplinary
Health and Environment
[F&ES 903b, Environmental Health Policy.]
F&ES 904b, Fundamentals of Environmental Health.
Environmental Management and Technology
[F&ES 905a, Greening the Industrial Facility.]
F&ES 906b, Industrial Ecology.
F&ES 907b, Advanced Seminar in Industrial Ecology: Industrial Ecology in Developing Countries.
F&ES 908b, Envrironmental 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.
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