GRADUATE FACULTY 1995-96
Director: W. H. Smith. Graduate Coordinator: H. L. Gholz. Professors: L. G. Arvanitis; K. C. Ewel; J. D. M. Flinchum; H. L. Gholz; L. R. Grosenbaugh; T. Miller; F. Putz; D. L. Rockwood; R. A. Schmidt; W. H. Smith; A. E. Squillace; E. L. Stone; T. L. White. Associate Professors: N. P. Arny; G. M. Blakeslee; N. B. Comerford; M. L. Duryea; J. L. Foltz; J. D. Johnson; E. J. Jokela; H. Riekerk. Assistant Professors: D. R. Carter; J. M. Davis.
The School administers programs leading to the Master of Science, Master of Forest Resources and Conservation (nonthesis), and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in forest resources and conservation for the Departments of Forestry and Wildlife and Range Sciences.
Programs in forest resources and conservation with specialization in forestry include agroforestry, biometrics, biotechnology, ecology, economics, environmental education and communication, genetics, hydrology, management, nutrition, pathology, physiology, silviculture, soils, and wood products. Wildlife Ecology and Conservation specializations are listed under that heading in this catalog.
Graduate faculty include personnel with the National Biological Service's Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, the U.S. Forest Service, other federal and state agencies, and related departments on campus.
Graduate students should have appropriate undergraduate training in biological, social, and physical sciences, including physics, chemistry, and mathematics. Students with inadequate backgrounds may be required to take (without credit at the graduate level) undergraduate courses pertinent to their field of interest.
All graduate students are required to assist in teaching one course during the first two years of their programs.
The following courses in related areas will be acceptable for graduate credit as part of the candidate's major:
AEB 6182--Intermediate Agricultural Production Economics; AEB 6453--Natural Resource Economics; AEB 6483--Regional Policy and Development; AEB 6553--Elements of Econometrics; AEB 6592--Activity Analysis for Economic Decisions; AEB 6625--Regional Economics; AGR 6233--Tropical Pasture and Forage Science; AGR 6311--Population Genetics; AGR 6323--Advanced Plant Breeding; AGR 6353--Cytogenetics; ANS 5446--Animal Nutrition; ANS 6386--Quantitative Genetics; ANS 6715--Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology; BCH 6415--Advanced Molecular and Cell Biology; BOT 5405C--Algology; BOT 5505C-- Intermediate Plant Physiology; BOT 5625--Plant Geography; BOT 5695--Ecosystems of Florida; BOT 6526--Plant Nutrition; BOT 6566-- Plant Growth and Development; EES 5007--Ecological and General Systems; EES 5308--Wetlands Ecology; EES 6136--Aquatic Autotrophs; EES 6166--Aquatic Heterotrophs; ENY 6502--Aquatic Insects; GEO 5145C--Remote Sensing; GLY 5704--Geomorphology; GLY 5820--Groundwater Geology; GMS 6152--Molecular Genetics; MAN 6511--Production Management Problems; PCB 5046--Advanced Ecology; PCB 5065--Principles of Genetics; PCB 5307C--Limnology; PCB 5317C--Marine Ecology; PCB 5415C-- Behavioral Ecology; PCB 6356C--Ecosystems of the Tropics; PCB 6377C-- Physiological Ecology of Vertebrates; PCB 6447C-- Community Ecology; PCB 6496C--Stream Ecology; PCB 6686C--Experimental Population Ecology; SOS 5132--Tropical Soils; SOS 6233-- Forest Soils; ZOO 5265--Crustacean Biology; ZOO 5405C--Physiology of Marine Animals; ZOO 5458--Fish Physiology; ZOO 5486C--Mammalogy; ZOO 6416C--Biology of Amphibia; ZOO 6456C--Ichthyology; ZOO 6466C--Biology of Reptilia; ZOO 6506C--Ethology; ZOO 6816-- Zoogeography; ZOO 6939--Seminar in Animal Behavior.
FNR 5335--Agroforestry (3) Biological, ecological, socioeconomic, and technical-managerial aspects of tree/crop, tree/animal, and tree/crop/animal systems. Examples of traditional and modern, rotational, and intercropped systems, and analyses of their structure, functioning, and potentials, with special reference to the tropics and subtropics. Offered spring semester.
FNR 5563--Simulation of Ecological Models (3) Prereq or coreq: CGS 3420. Design of ecological models; simulation on small and large digital computers.
FNR 5608--Research Planning (3) Prereq: consent of instructor. For beginning graduate students; history and philosophy of science, scientific method, development of a research proposal. Research facilities and programs are presented. Offered fall semester.
FOR 5161--Forest Productivity and Health (3) Prereq: consent of instructor. Silviculture, disease management, and genetic improvement. Stand development and composition, competition, growth limiting factors, epidemiology, choice of species and provenance, and tree breeding. Offered spring semester of odd-numbered years.
FOR 5615--Forest Conservation and Management Policies and Issues (3) Current policies in both North America and internationally. Historical patterns of resource use and policy response reviewed as basis for evaluating current issues. Offered fall semester.
FOR 5625--Forest Water Resources Management (3) Prereq: SOS 3022. Forest management practices in relation to hydrologic responses and water quality considerations. Offered spring semester of even-numbered years.
FOR 6154--Analysis of Forest Ecosystems (3) Prereq: graduate status or consent of instructor. Energy, water, carbon and nutrient fluxes in forests; applications to forest and landscape management. Offered spring semester of even-numbered years.
FOR 6167--Advanced Silviculture (3) Prereq: Consent of instructor. Influence of silvicultural practices on tree and stand growth and forms of these practices; environmental impact. Offered spring semester of even-numbered years.
FOR 6170--Tropical Forestry (3) Prereq: consent of instructor. Climatic influences, forest types, natural forest and plantation management, policies, practices, and conservation. Offered fall semester of odd-numbered years.
FOR 6310--Forest Genetics (3) Prereq: acceptable background in genetics. Application of principles of genetics in the silvicultural handling of forest stands; selection, hybridization, and tree-breeding techniques. Offered fall semester of even-numbered years.
FOR 6340--Physiology of Forest Trees (3) Prereq: BOT 3503 and BCH 3023 or equivalent. Factors influencing forest tree and stand energy balance, flowering, seed production, germination, water relations, and growth; applications to forestry problems. Offered spring semester of even-numbered years.
FOR 6453--Advanced Forest Mensuration (3) Prereq: consent of instructor. Growth modeling, sampling designs, simulation of stand dynamics, linear and nonlinear estimation of biomass and other parameters. Offered fall semester of even-numbered years.
FOR 6543--Advanced Forest Resource Economics (3) Prereq: consent of instructor. Extension of microeconomic principles to problems in forest production, supply behavior, forest valuation, multiple-use of forest lands. Offered spring semester of odd-numbered years.
FOR 6905--Research Problems In Forest Resources and Conservation (1-6; max: 10) Prereq: permission of instructor.
FOR 6910--Supervised Research (1-5; max: 10) Prereq: permission of instructor. S/U.
FOR 6933--Seminar (1; max: 2) S/U option.
FOR 6934--Topics in Forest Resources and Conservation (1-4; max: 10) Selected topics in forestry, wood science, range, recreation, wildlife, and fisheries.
FOR 6940--Supervised Teaching (1-5; max: 5) Prereq: permission of instructor. S/U.
FOR 6971--Research for Master's Thesis (1-15) S/U.
FOR 7979--Advanced Research (1-12) Research for doctoral students before admission to candidacy. Designed for students with a master's degree in the field of study or for students who have been accepted for a doctoral program. Not open to students who have been admitted to candidacy. S/U.
FOR 7980--Research for Doctoral Dissertation (1-15) S/U.
PCB 6555--Introduction to Quantitative Genetics (3) Prereq: STA 6166. Intended for students of all disciplines who are interested in genetic principles and biometric evaluation of characters that exhibit continuous variation in natural populations or breeding programs. Offered in spring semester of odd-numbered years.
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