Forestry and Environmental Resources (PhD)
Degree Requirements
The department offers training in all of the major sub-disciplines of forest, natural resources, and environmental-related science and management. Considerable flexibility is allowed in developing graduate programs tailored to the student's objectives.
| Code | Title | Hours | Counts towards |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minor Courses | 12 | ||
| Select a minor in another program | |||
| Other Courses | 24-60 | ||
| The additional courses that will be applied to reach 36-72 credit hours will be determined in conjunction with the academic committee | |||
| Total Hours 1 | 36-72 | ||
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72 total hours beyond a Bachelor's degree.聽 Students with a Master's degree from another university can count 18 credit hours from their Master's.聽 Students with a Master's degree from NC State can count 18-36 credits from their masters, following the Graduate School rules and regulations.
Forestry Courses
| Code | Title | Hours | Counts towards |
|---|---|---|---|
| 贵翱搁听501 | Dendrology | 3 | |
| 贵翱搁听502 | Forest Measurements | 1 | |
| 贵翱搁听503 | 1 | ||
| 贵翱搁听504 | The Practice of Silviculture | 3 | |
| 贵翱搁听505 | Forest Management | 4 | |
| 贵翱搁听506 | Silviculture Laboratory | 1 | |
| 贵翱搁听508 | Applied Forest Ecology: Natural Forest Silviculture | 3 | |
| 贵翱搁听509 | Forest Resource Policy | 1 | |
| 贵翱搁听513 | Silviculture for Intensively Managed Plantations | 3 | |
| 贵翱搁听514 | Woodland Stewardship | 3 | |
| 贵翱搁听519 | Forest Economics | 3 | |
| 贵翱搁听520 | Watershed and Wetlands Hydrology | 4 | |
| 贵翱搁听522 | Consulting Forestry | 3 | |
| 贵翱搁听531 | Wildland Fire Science | 3 | |
| 贵翱搁听532 | Wildland Firefighter | 3 | |
| 贵翱搁听534 | Forest Operations and Analysis | 3 | |
| 贵翱搁听540 | Advanced Dendrology | 3 | |
| 贵翱搁听561 | Forest Communities of the Southeastern Coastal Plain | 1 | |
| 贵翱搁听562 | Forest Communities of the Southern Appalachians | 1 | |
| 贵翱搁听565 | Plant Community Ecology | 4 | |
| 贵翱搁听574 | Forest Mensuration and Modeling | 3 | |
| 贵翱搁听575 | Advanced Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology | 3 | |
| 贵翱搁听583 | Tropical Forestry | 3 | |
| 贵翱搁听595 | Special Topics | 1-6 | |
| 贵翱搁听601 | Graduate Seminar | 1 | |
| 贵翱搁听603 | Research Methods in Forestry and Environmental Resources | 1 | |
| 贵翱搁听610 | Special Topics In Forestry | 1-6 | |
| 贵翱搁听630 | Independent Study in Forestry | 1 | |
| 贵翱搁听685 | Master's Supervised Teaching | 1-3 | |
| 贵翱搁听688 | Non-Thesis Masters Continuous Registration - Half Time Registration | 1 | |
| 贵翱搁听689 | Non-Thesis Master Continuous Registration - Full Time Registration | 3 | |
| 贵翱搁听693 | Master's Supervised Research | 1-9 | |
| 贵翱搁听695 | Master's Thesis Research | 1-9 | |
| 贵翱搁听696 | Summer Thesis Research | 1 | |
| 贵翱搁听713 | Advanced Topics In Silviculture | 3 | |
| 贵翱搁听725 | Forest Genetics | 3 | |
| 贵翱搁听726 | Advanced Topics In Quantitative Genetics and Breeding | 3 | |
| 贵翱搁听727 | Tree Improvement Research Techniques | 3 | |
| 贵翱搁听728 | Quantitative Forest Genetics Methods | 3 | |
| 贵翱搁听734 | Advanced Forest Management Planning | 3 | |
| 贵翱搁听750 | Ecological Restoration | 3 | |
| 贵翱搁听753 | Environmental Remote Sensing | 3 | |
| 贵翱搁听784 | 4 | ||
| 贵翱搁听795 | Advanced Special Topics in Forestry | 1-6 | |
| 贵翱搁听801 | Seminar | 1 | |
| 贵翱搁听803 | Research Methods in Forestry and Environmental Resources | 1 | |
| 贵翱搁听810 | Special Topics In Forestry | 1-6 | |
| 贵翱搁听885 | Doctoral Supervised Teaching | 1-3 | |
| 贵翱搁听893 | Doctoral Supervised Research | 1-9 | |
| 贵翱搁听895 | Doctoral Dissertation Research | 1-9 | |
| 贵翱搁听896 | Summer Dissertation Research | 1 |
Professors
- Robert Carroll Abt
- Maricar Aguilos
- Robert E. Bardon
- Caren Beth Cooper
- Frederick Willis Cubbage
- Christopher S. DePerno
- Stith Gower
- George R. Hess
- Gary Ray Hodge
- Fikret Isik
- John S. King
- Bailian Li
- Steven Edward McKeand
- Ross Meentemeyer
- Mark Megalos
- Christopher E. Moorman
- Stacy Arnold Charles Nelson
- Elizabeth Guthrie Nichols
- Marcus Peterson
- Joseph Peter Roise
- Robert Scheller
- Erin Odonnell Sills
- Mary Watzin
- Ross W. Whetten
- Justin Scott Baker
- Gary B. Blank
- Rachel Cook
- Caren Beth Cooper
- Jason Delborne
- Ryan Emanuel
- Madhusudan Katti
- Marcelo Ardon Sayao
- Theodore Henry Shear
- Mirela Tulbure
- Angela Malelya Allen
- Elizabeth Typhina
- Juan Jose Acosta
- Jennifer Richmond Bryant
- Jennifer Costanza
- Solomon Beyene Ghezehei
- Stephanie Jeffries
- Robert Miller Jetton
- Roland Kays
- Megan Lupek
- Albert Edward Mayfield
- Kevin M Potter
- Douglas J. Frederick
- Dennis W. Hazel
Associate Professor
- Ivana Mali
Assistant Professors
- Jeffrey Doser
- Ayse Ercuman
- Jodi Forrester
- Ritwick Ghosh
- Josh Gray
- Jordan Kern
- Zakiya Holmes Leggett
- Katie Martin
- Meredith Pearl Martin
- Kelly Felderhoff Oten
- Jamain Pacitici
- Rajan Parajuli
- Kitt Payn
- Leah Rathbun
- Louie Rivers
- Lindsey Suzanne Smart
- Kurt Smith
- Trevor Davis Walker
- Jack Wang
- Justin Graham Alexander Whitehill
Practice/Research/Teaching Professor
- Simone Lim-Hing