Key Disciplines

Our students participate in natural resources management research in order to gain hand-on, practical work experience with our many partners in the public and private sector. Our professors are engaged in research projects across a wide variety of disciplines, including, but not limited to, the following:

  • Biodiversity in forest environments
  • Conservation biology
  • Evolutionary ecology
  • Forest ecology and ecological processes
  • Forest entomology and pathology
  • Forest fire management and ecology
  • Forest management - economics and operations
  • Forest reaction
  • Forest soils and soil conservation
  • Forest genetics and tree improvement
  • Human populations and community ecology
  • Remote sensing, photogrammetry and GIS
  • Silviculture
  • Sustainable forest management
  • Tree morphology and physiology
  • Watershed ecology, forest hydrology and water quality
  • Wildlife habitat management and conservation
  • Wood science
  • Urban forestry
  • Forest Pathology
  • Indigenous and social issues in forestry