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Available Emphasis Areas: Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology – Emphasis.

This is the terminal degree in the profession of forestry, and it prepares you for a career in research and/or education. We offer three concentrations within this doctoral plan-ecosystem science, forest management sciences and economics, and forest social science.

For this plan, which involves completing a dissertation, we expect you to demonstrate your skill in generating original ideas; your considerable command of the literature; your skill at designing, analyzing, and interpreting research; your skill in scientific writing, including publication of research results in major professional refereed journals; and your basic skills in teaching. We expect you to be self-motivated and to largely direct your own research program with advice and counsel from your major professor and dissertation committee. We evaluate your work on the basis of the originality and quality of the new knowledge you generate.

Careers

The Forest Science Ph.D. degree is the terminal degree offered in the profession of forestry. Students with the Ph.D. degree normally pursue a career in research and/or education. Ph.D. students are expected to demonstrate skill in the generation of original ideas, considerable command of the literature, skill at designing, analyzing, and interpreting research, skill in scientific writing including the publication of research results in major professional refereed journals and basic skills in teaching.

• Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology