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 former UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences undergraduate student was published in a recent issue of FieldNotes, a student-run undergraduate journal and digital storytelling platform based in the College of the Environment at the University of Washington.
Read moreThe last SEFS Seminar of the fall quarter 2021 will virtually welcome Shaowen Wang, professor and head of the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science; and an affiliate professor of the Department of Computer Science, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, and School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
Read moreThere will be no SEFS Seminar this week due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Now’s a great opportunity to get caught up on our past seminars! You can watch all recently past SEFS Seminars on the SEFS YouTube Channel, and save the dates for the remaining seminars here.
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