UNH Graduate School - Natural Resources

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Application Deadlines

Fall:
February 15 for financial assistance
July 1 for fall session (April 1 recommended for fall session)

Spring:
December 1 for spring session (note Environmental Conservation is Fall Only)

Summer:
Not open for admissions

Application Requirements

*Deadline Exceptions:
March 1 for Environmental Conservation option.

Fall only for Environmental Conservation option.

Test Scores: GRE

Special Instructions: No specific special instructions. If you have any questions regarding application requirements or other aspects of the program please contact the department directly.

New England Regional:
Natural Resources (No Option):
Massachusetts

Natural Resources

James Hall
Durham, NH 03824
(603) 862 - 3932
Email:
Web Address: http://www.nre.unh.edu/

Degree Offered (MS):

The Department of Natural Resources offers a master of science in natural resources along with options in four areas.

Natural Resources: General
This program is designed for students whose work crosses disciplinary boundaries within the natural resources and does not easily fit within one of the existing options. Students can later choose to specify one of the five options if their research interests change or if they become specific to one individual area.

Natural Resources: Forestry
Areas of interest include forest resource economics and management, biometrics, genetics, forest ecosystem dynamics, spatial data analysis (remote sensing and GIS).

Natural Resources: Environmental Conservation
Areas of interest include natural resource policy, conservation biology, sustainability, ecological ethics and values, international environmental affairs, and spatial data analysis (remote sensing and GIS).

Natural Resources: Soil Science (Option has been discontinued as of 6/17/2008)
Areas of interest include soil biology and biogeochemistry.

Natural Resources: Water Resources
Areas of interest include wetlands, land-water interactions, groundwater chemistry, and biogeochemistry.

Natural Resources: Wildlife
Areas of interest include field and laboratory aspects of wildlife energetics, wildlife use of managed and unmanaged forest systems, habitat management and fragmentation, conservation biology, wetland wildlife ecology, population dynamics.

Admission Requirements

Applicants are expected to have completed either an undergraduate degree in the field in which they plan to specialize or show adequate preparation in the basic support courses of the field. Students with good undergraduate records who lack a background in a particular field may be admitted to a program, provided they are prepared to correct any deficiencies. All entering students must have taken at least one statistics course or do so at the graduate level. Applicants must submit current scores (within five years) from the general test of the GRE.

Students entering the forestry option may elect to develop concentrations within any of the above-listed areas. Applicants are expected to have backgrounds in forestry or related biological sciences. Students interested in water resources are required to have adequate preparation in chemistry and mathematics as well as biological or earth sciences. Students interested in wildlife are expected to have adequate preparation in biological sciences, chemistry, and mathematics. Students interested in environmental conservation should have a background appropriate for their area of interest. Since environmental conservation covers such a broad area, applicants are always reviewed carefully on an individual basis.

Prior to submitting an application, applicants should contact one or more graduate faculty advisors to discuss programs and funding, and secure a commitment of a faculty member to serve as graduate advisor.

Degree Requirements

An M.S. degree is conferred upon successful completion a program of not less than 30 credits, including the following course requirements or equivalents: NR 993, Seminar; NR 903, Approach to Research, a quantitative methods course; and NR 996, Natural Resource Education; and NR 998, Directed Research, or NR 899, Thesis and a formal presentation of the thesis or directed research results.

Cooperative Doctoral Program
The Department of Natural Resources participates in the Natural Resources and Earth System Science Ph.D. Program (NRESS), an interdepartmental degree offered at UNH. For further details on this program, please visit the NRESS program page.