Students studying Environmental Science and Resource Management (ESRM) learn about natural and human-dominated landscapes and how to apply this knowledge to real-world problems. Sustainable Bioresource Systems Engineering (SBSE) students apply chemical sciences and engineering to manufacturing fiber product, fuels and chemicals from biomass resources. Special degree focus areas are available for ESRM students and degree minors are available in ecological restoration and ESRM.
Sustainable Bioresource Systems EngineeringEnvironmental Science and Terrestrial Resource Management Major
Our graduate degrees offer a number of different paths that prepare students for careers from academia to public agencies, the private sector to nonprofit organizations. There are two traditional degrees and two non-thesis degrees. We also partner with other programs within the university to offer two concurrent degrees.
Graduate Degrees
Our faculty use engineering and natural, wildlife and social science in their work, which is aimed at developing renewable forest products and stewarding forest and landscape ecosystems for a range of functions and services, and understanding the social, economic and environmental consequences of stewardship and production choices.
The Sustainable Bioresource Systems Engineering (SBSE) major launched Fall Quarter 2025. The major will give graduates the knowledge and tools to be successful process engineers, especially with processes that have biomass feedstocks, and have a solid foundation in the fundamentals of sustainability.
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The SEFS community is saddened to share the passing of a dear friend and College of Forestry alumnus Alan Carter Randall. He was 94. Randall was one of twelve graduates of the College of Forestry in 1957.
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The beginning of the 2025-26 academic year is here and I hope you made the most of the summer season, whatever your plans for it might have been. I know many of our faculty members and students spent their summer months in the field and in the lab, locally and abroad, partnering on research that informs how to sustainably manage natural resources, adapt to a changing climate, develop and apply new technologies for resource management and use, and inform fair policies and practices.
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