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 | ||
- 1
72 total hours beyond a Bachelor's degree. Students with a Master's degree from another university can count 18 credit hours from their Master's. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOR 501 | Dendrology | 3 | |
| FOR 502 | Forest Measurements | 1 | |
| FOR 503 | Tree Physiology | 1 | |
| FOR 504 | The Practice of Silviculture | 3 | |
| FOR 505 | Forest Management | 4 | |
| FOR 506 | Silviculture Laboratory | 1 | |
| FOR 508 | Applied Forest Ecology: Natural Forest Silviculture | 3 | |
| FOR 509 | Forest Resource Policy | 1 | |
| FOR 513 | Silviculture for Intensively Managed Plantations | 3 | |
| FOR 514 | Woodland Stewardship | 3 | |
| FOR 519 | Forest Economics | 3 | |
| FOR 520 | Watershed and Wetlands Hydrology | 4 | |
| FOR 522 | Consulting Forestry | 3 | |
| FOR 531 | Wildland Fire Science | 3 | |
| FOR 532 | Wildland Firefighter | 3 | |
| FOR 534 | Forest Operations and Analysis | 3 | |
| FOR 540 | Advanced Dendrology | 3 | |
| FOR 561 | Forest Communities of the Southeastern Coastal Plain | 1 | |
| FOR 562 | Forest Communities of the Southern Appalachians | 1 | |
| FOR 565 | Plant Community Ecology | 4 | |
| FOR 574 | Forest Mensuration and Modeling | 3 | |
| FOR 575 | Advanced Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology | 3 | |
| FOR 583 | Tropical Forestry | 3 | |
| FOR 595 | Special Topics | 1-6 | |
| FOR 601 | Graduate Seminar | 1 | |
| FOR 603 | Research Methods in Forestry and Environmental Resources | 1 | |
| FOR 610 | Special Topics In Forestry | 1-6 | |
| FOR 630 | Independent Study in Forestry | 1 | |
| FOR 685 | Master's Supervised Teaching | 1-3 | |
| FOR 688 | Non-Thesis Masters Continuous Registration - Half Time Registration | 1 | |
| FOR 689 | Non-Thesis Master Continuous Registration - Full Time Registration | 3 | |
| FOR 693 | Master's Supervised Research | 1-9 | |
| FOR 695 | Master's Thesis Research | 1-9 | |
| FOR 696 | Summer Thesis Research | 1 | |
| FOR 713 | Advanced Topics In Silviculture | 3 | |
| FOR 725 | Forest Genetics | 3 | |
| FOR 726 | Advanced Topics In Quantitative Genetics and Breeding | 3 | |
| FOR 727 | Tree Improvement Research Techniques | 3 | |
| FOR 728 | Quantitative Forest Genetics Methods | 3 | |
| FOR 734 | Advanced Forest Management Planning | 3 | |
| FOR 750 | Ecological Restoration | 3 | |
| FOR 753 | Environmental Remote Sensing | 3 | |
| FOR 784 | 4 | ||
| FOR 795 | Advanced Special Topics in Forestry | 1-6 | |
| FOR 801 | Seminar | 1 | |
| FOR 803 | Research Methods in Forestry and Environmental Resources | 1 | |
| FOR 810 | Special Topics In Forestry | 1-6 | |
| FOR 885 | Doctoral Supervised Teaching | 1-3 | |
| FOR 893 | Doctoral Supervised Research | 1-9 | |
| FOR 895 | Doctoral Dissertation Research | 1-9 | |
| FOR 896 | Summer Dissertation Research | 1 |
Professors
- Robert Carroll Abt
- Maricar Aguilos
- Robert E. Bardon
- 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
- Ayse Ercuman
- Jodi Forrester
- 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