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Forestry & Environmental Studies

205 Prospect, 432.5100
M.S., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Dean
James Gustave Speth

Director of Doctoral Studies
Oswald Schmitz (370 Prospect, 432.5110, oswald.schmitz@yale.edu)

Professors
Mark Ashton, Gaboury Benoit, Graeme Berlyn, William Burch, Michael Dove, Daniel Esty, Thomas Graedel, Timothy Gregoire, Stephen Kellert, Robert Mendelsohn, Chadwick Oliver, Oswald Schmitz, John Wargo

Associate Professors
Lisa Curran, Xuhui Lee, James Saiers, Hilary Sigman, David Skelly

Assistant Professors
Benjamin Cashore, Sheila Cavanagh, Marian Chertow, Erin Mansur, Kathleen McAfee, Peter Raymond

Non-Ladder Faculty
Shimon Anisfeld, Ann Camp, Carol Carpenter, Timothy Clark, Paul Draghi, Gordon Geballe, Bradford Gentry, Reid Lifset, James Lyons, Florencia Montagnini, Offer Ovadia, Robert Repetto, Thomas Siccama

Joint Appointments
James Axley, Ruth Blake, Adalgisa (Gisela) Caccone, Michael Donoghue, Menachem Elimelech, Roger Ely, Robert Evenson, Jonathan Feinstein, Mary Helen Goldsmith, Brian Leaderer, William Nordhaus, Jeffrey Powell, Alison Richard, James Scott, Stephen Stearns, Christopher Timmins, Karl Turekian, Robin Winks

Visiting Faculty, Fellows, Adjunct Faculty, and Faculty with Primary Appointments Elsewhere
Xuemei Bai, Michael Balick, Diana Balmori, Brian Boom, Edgar Brannon, Richard Burroughs, Douglas Daly, John Ehrenfeld, William Ellis, Emil Frankel, Andrew Henderson, David Lentz, James MacBroom, Scott Mori, Arvid Nelson, Daniel Nepstad, John Nolon, Christine Padoch, Charles Peters, Jonathan Reuning-Scherer, Dennis Stevenson, Fred Strebeigh, Sylvia Tesh, Andrew Willard

Fields of Study
Fields include tree physiology and anatomy, forestry and natural resource economics, forest ecology and nutrient cycling, ecosystem ecology, social ecology and sociology of planning, leisure and recreation, forest history, biometry and mensuration, forest management, tropical resources, agroforestry, tropical forestry, population ecology, environmental biophysics and meteorology, silviculture, stand development, forest pathology and air pollution impact, forest soils, nitrogen fixation, forest, natural resource, environmental and energy economics, environmental law, human dimensions of wildlife, environmental and resource policy, wildlife ecology, entomology, environmental chemistry, and hydrology and water resource management.

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, 824a/b, for 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. See Graduate School requirements.

M.S. (en route to the Ph.D.). Upon petition, the department will recommend for the M.S. degree any student who has completed one year of study and has maintained a better than passing record in courses, including at least one Honors grade.

Program materials are available upon request to the Director of Doctoral Studies, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, 205 Prospect Street, New Haven CT 06511-2199.

For courses, see the Bulletin of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.


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