Graduate Course Catalog 2012-2013
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This program is offered in Durham.
Degree Offered: M.S.
The Department of Natural Resources and the Environment offers a master of science in natural resources in the following options.
Natural Resources: Environmental Conservation
Areas of interest include natural resource policy, conservation biology, sustainability, ecological ethics and values, international environmental affairs, and spatial data analysis (remote sensing and GIS).
Natural Resources: Environmental Economics
Areas of interest include agricultural economics, community and regional economics, land economics, water economics, and environmental economics.
Natural Resources: Forestry
Areas of interest include forest resource economics and management, biometrics, genetics, forest ecosystem dynamics, and spatial data analysis (remote sensing and GIS).
Natural Resources: General
This program is designed for students whose work crosses disciplinary boundaries within the natural resources and does not easily fit within one of the existing options. Students can later choose to specify one of the six options if their research interests change or if they become specific to one individual area.
Natural Resources: Soil and Water Resource Management
Areas of interest include wetlands, land-water interactions, groundwater chemistry, and biogeochemistry.
Natural Resources: TIDES (Integrated Coastal Ecosystem Science, Policy and Management)
Areas of interest include ecosystem science, coastal resource management, natural resources and environmental policy, and marine resource education.
Natural Resources: Wildlife and Conservation Biology
Areas of interest include field and laboratory aspects of wildlife energetics, wildlife use of managed and unmanaged forest systems, habitat management and fragmentation, conservation biology, wetland wildlife ecology, and population dynamics.
Admission Requirements
Applicants are expected to have completed either an undergraduate degree in the field in which they plan to specialize or show adequate preparation in the basic support courses of the field. Students with good undergraduate records who lack a background in a particular field may be admitted to a program, provided they are prepared to correct any deficiencies. All entering students must have taken at least one statistics course or do so at the graduate level. Applicants must submit current scores (within five years) from the general test of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE).
Students entering the forestry option may elect to develop concentrations within any of the above-listed areas. Applicants are expected to have backgrounds in forestry or related biological sciences. Students interested in soil and water resource management are required to have adequate preparation in chemistry and mathematics as well as biological or Earth sciences. Students interested in wildlife and conservation biology are expected to have adequate preparation in biological sciences, chemistry, and mathematics. Students interested in environmental conservation should have a background appropriate for their area of interest. Since environmental conservation covers such a broad area, applicants are always reviewed carefully on an individual basis. Students interested in environmental economics should have a background in both economics and the environment. Four or more undergraduate courses in economics or environmental economics, including intermediate microeconomics and intermediate macroeconomics, are required as well as calculus and statistics. Students interested in the TIDES (Integrated Coastal Ecosystem Science, Policy and Management) option are required to have adequate preparation in ecology, social sciences, and statistics.
Prior to submitting an application, applicants should contact one or more graduate faculty advisers to discuss programs and funding, and secure a commitment of a faculty member to serve as graduate adviser.
Degree Requirements
An M.S. degree is conferred upon successful completion of a program of not less than 30 credits for Natural Resources options: forestry, environmental conservation, environmental economics, general, soil and water resource management, and wildlife and conservation biology.
Course requirements or equivalents:
NR 903, Approach to Research
NR 993, Seminar or NR 947, Current Issues in Ecosystem Ecology
NR 996, Natural Resource Education
Quantitative methods course
NR 899, Master’s Thesis and a formal presentation of the thesis or
NR 998, Directed Research and directed research results
One course in Ecology, requirement of environmental conservation option only
ECON 926, Econometrics I and ECON 976, Microeconomics I, requirement of environmental economics option only
Natural Resources: TIDES option requires a minimum of 36 credits.
NR: TIDES course requirements or equivalents:
NR 903, Approach to Research
NR 915, Seminar: Coastal Challenges for Science-Policy Collaborations
NR 916, Linking Decision-making and Coastal Ecosystem Science
NR 917, Coastal Ecosystem Science Policy and Management Internship
NR 824, Resolving Environmental Conflicts
Quantitative methods course
One ecology course
One resource management course
NR 998, Directed Research and directed research results
A Cooperative Doctoral Program
The Department of Natural Resources and the Environment participates in the Natural Resources and Earth System Science Ph.D. Program (NRESS), an interdepartmental degree offered at UNH. For further details on this program, please visit the NRESS program page.
Courses
Courses
| Abbreviation | Course Number | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| NR | 801 | Ecological Sustainability and Values | 4 |
| NR | 802 | Workshops | 1 TO 4 |
| NR | 803 | Watershed Water Quality Management | 4 |
| NR | 806 | Soil Ecology | 4 |
| NR | 807 | Environmental Modeling | 4 |
| NR | 810 | Endangered Species Seminar | 2 |
| NR | 811 | Wetland Ecology and Management | 4 |
| NR | 813 | Quantitative Ecology | 4 |
| NR | 816 | Wetland Delineation | 4 |
| NR | 818 | Law of Natural Resources and Environment | 3 |
| NR | 819 | Wetlands Restoration and Mitigation | 3 |
| NR | 820 | International Environmental Politics and Policies for the 21st Century | 4 |
| NR | 824 | Resolving Environmental Conflicts | 4 |
| NR | 829 | Silviculture | 4 |
| NR | 830 | Terrestrial Ecosystems | 4 |
| NR | 834 | Tropical Ecology | 4 |
| NR | 835 | Land Conservation Principles and Practices | 4 |
| NR | 838 | Wildlife Policy and Management | 4 |
| NR | 840 | Inventory and Montoring of Ecological Communities | 4 |
| NR | 841 | Demographic Methods in Conservation Biology and Wildlife Ecology | 2 |
| NR | 844 | Biogeochemistry | 4 |
| NR | 845 | Forest Management | 4 |
| NR | 849 | Forest Inventory and Modeling | 4 |
| NR | 851 | Aquatic Ecosystems | 4 |
| NR | 857 | Remote Sensing of the Environment | 4 |
| NR | 859 | Digital Image Processing for Natural Resources | 4 |
| NR | 860 | Geographic Information Systems in Natural Resources | 4 |
| NR | 867 | Earth System Science | 4 |
| NR | 882 | Monitoring Forest Health | 4 |
| NR | 883 | Forest Communities of New Hampshire | 4 |
| NR | 884 | Sustainable Living | 4 |
| NR | 885 | Systems Thinking for Sustainable Living | 4 |
| NR | 897 | Special Topics | 1 TO 4 |
| NR | 899 | Master's Thesis | 1 TO 10 |
| NR | 902 | Ecological Ethics and Values | 4 |
| NR | 903 | Approach to Research | 4 |
| NR | 910 | Forest Stand Dynamics | 4 |
| NR | 912 | Sampling Techniques | 2 TO 4 |
| NR | 915 | Coastal Challenges Sci-Policy | 2 |
| NR | 916 | Linking Decision-making and Coastal Ecosystem Science | 4 |
| NR | 917 | Coastal Ecosystem Science Policy and Management Internship | 6 |
| NR | 947 | Current Issues in Ecosystem Ecology | 2 |
| NR | 965 | Community Ecology | 4 |
| NR | 993 | Natural and Environmental Resources Seminar | 1 OR 2 |
| NR | 995 | Investigations | 1 TO 4 |
| NR | 996 | Natural Resource Education | 1 |
| NR | 997 | Special Topics | 1 TO 4 |
| NR | 998 | Directed Research | 1 TO 4 |
