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.
School of Environmental and Forest Sciences graduate student and National Science Foundation graduate research fellow Olivia Sanderfoot’s letter to the editor about a proposed rule that would limit research used to determine federal environmental regulations was published in the opinion section of The New York Times on Tuesday.
Read moreOn Nov. 13, the UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences will welcome Rose Graves, post-doctoral research associate with Portland State University. She will present “Natural Climate Solutions in Oregon: Potential Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Conservation and Land Management.”
The seminar begins at 3:30 p.m.
Not long ago, an injured barred owl found on the University of Washington’s campus caught the attention of many. Luckily, it recovered from its injuries at a local wildlife rescue facility.
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