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. Bioresource Science and Engineering (BSE) 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.
Bioresource Science and 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.
A School of Environmental and Forest Sciences associate professor is one of six University of Washington professors to receive a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, according to an announcement July 2 from the White House.
Read moreTwo School of Environmental and Forest Sciences professors received grant funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project with the Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR).”
Assistant professor Brian J.
School of Environmental and Forest Sciences assistant professor Greg Bratman was quoted in a Newsday story about how getting outside is good for our health.
Bratman told the news outlet, “There is an emerging body of evidence that indicates that exercising outdoors may be more beneficial for your well-being than [exercising] indoors.