Description of Program
The School of Natural Resources offers graduate programs leading to a Master of Science or Doctor of Philosophy in Natural Resource Sciences. The broad diversity of climate, habitat, hydrology, soils, and near-surface and subsurface geology across Nebraska provides a multitude of opportunities for field studies in each of these areas. Faculty also conduct research in other states and countries.
Excellent laboratory, computer, and field facilities are available for performing up-to-date analyses in all resource areas, as well as water chemistry, GIS, geophysics, computer modeling, remote sensing, and geospatial image analysis. State, federal, and private natural resource organizations provide unique opportunities for cooperative research and degree-related work.
Additional areas of study include:
- agroecosystems
- carbon sequestration
- conservation biology
- cycling of natural and human-made chemicals
- drought mitigation
- environmental biophysics
- environmental microbiology
- environmental soil microbiology, chemistry and physics
- fisheries management and ecology
- geology
- geomorphology and soils
- geospatial analysis
- global climatic change
- global positioning systems
- grassland ecology and management
- ground water
- high plains climate
- human-wildlife conflicts
- hydrologic modeling
- isotope hydrology
- lake ecology; landscape ecology
- micrometeorology
- natural resources economics
- natural resource planning and management
- natural resources law
- riparian systems
- rural sustainability
- severe weather
- simulation modeling
- soil moisture
- soil restoration
- stewardship
- surface water systems
- urban habitats
- water quality and chemistry
- wetlands
- woodland habitats