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SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT INTEREST
GROUP
Program Description
The Sustainable Resource Management (SRM) interest group focuses on helping students develop an integrated set of skills concentrating on silvicultural principles and practices, business management, forest economics, forest biometrics, remote sensing, and operations research. Students draw upon the expertise of a diverse faculty
and are encouraged to expand the interdisciplinary nature of their program
by enrolling in
courses in related UW departments and programs, including the Department
of Economics, Graduate School of Business
Administration, Dan Evans Graduate School of Public Affairs, School of Law and the Jackson School of International Studies,
Cooperating programs also include the College of Forest Resources’
Center for International Trade in Forest Products (CINTRAFOR), the Rural Technology Initiative (RTI), and
other UW programs such as Biostatistics, Statistics, Applied Mathematics
and Engineering, and the Center for Quantitative Science, an inter-college unit of the College of
Forest Resources and the College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences.
Learned degrees, Master of Science (MS) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), are tailored to the interests and needs of individual students. Students are involved in research, teaching, and public outreach. Cross-disciplinary interactions with botany, business, communications, economics, engineering, environmental studies, forest management and other disciplines are encouraged. The degrees prepare students for careers in university research and teaching, business management, forestry, and supporting service professions and management agencies and organizations.
SRM provides graduate students with a variety of options for advanced study. Course work is flexible to cover the diversity of interests within the interest group. Click on one of the options listed below to view specific course requirements.
Forest products business
Forest economics
Quantitative management, consisting of the following focuses:
Forest biometry
Remote sensing
Management science/Operations research
Current Research
- International trade and forest products marketing
- Life cycle inventory analysis of environmental performance
- Adoption and diffusion of new building materials
- Financial performance in the pulp and paper industry
- Developing new products and markets for small-diameter timber
- Material substitution between wood and non-wood structural building materials
- Modeling of intensively managed stand system dynamics
- Assessment of tree sequestered carbon on forest land
- Modeling of climatic influences on tree and stand growth
- Nonparametric tree list generation for forest simulation
- Development of optimal, log bucking and log allocation programs
- Forest simulation using individual tree aggregation methods
- Density-adjusted height-age curves for Douglas-fir plantations
- Estimation of bounding relationships in biological and production functions
- Analysis of the economic impacts of alternative forest tax systems
- Design of optimal road construction and spatial timber harvest schedules
- Decision optimization in uneven-aged stand management
- Rural economics and technology transfer in timber-based communities
- International trade in forest products
- Economic and environmental tradeoff analysis
- Spatial land management planning within a hierarchical system
- Competitiveness analysis for forest products
- Institutional arrangements for forest resource management and utilization (market and non-market mechanisms)
- Conventional aerial photo uses and photogrammetry in conjunction with USFS cooperative
- Laser and radar mapping and data collection techniques
- Computer visualization model building
- Optimization of transportation systems
For current funded grants in this interest group click
here.
| Faculty |
Area of Interest |
| BRUCE BARE |
HARVEST SCHEDULING; BIOMETRY; FOREST LAND MANAGEMENT; FINANCE AND VALUATION; SOFT OPTIMIZATION; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, OPERATIONS RESEARCH, FUZZY SYSTEMS |
| DAVID BRIGGS |
OPERATIONS RESEARCH IN FOREST PRODUCTS INDUSTRIES |
| IVAN EASTIN |
MARKETING STRATEGIES AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE OF FOREST PRODUCTS; MARKETING OF LESSER-KNOWN TIMBER SPECIES |
| GREGORY ETTL |
SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; FOREST ECOLOGY; SILVICULTURE |
| JERRY FRANKLIN |
FOREST ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; SUCCESSION; STRUCTURE |
| JAMES FRIDLEY |
FOREST ENGINEERING SYSTEMS DESIGN; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SIMULATION |
| FRANK GREULICH |
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE AND BIOMETRY APPLIED TO LAND MANAGEMENT |
| ROBERT HARRISON |
FOREST NUTRITION; MINERAL CYCLING; LONG-TERM FOREST PRODUCTIVITY; ORGANIC WASTE UTILIZATION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION |
| BRUCE LIPPKE |
FOREST ECONOMICS |
| L. MONIKA MOSKAL |
REMOTE SENSING; FOREST STRUCTURE; LAND USE/LAND COVER CHANGE DYNAMICS; GEOVISUALIZATION |
| JOHN PEREZ-GARCIA |
TRADE ANALYSIS AND MODELING OF FOREST SECTOR |
| SERGEY RABOTYAGOV |
ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; HUMAN RESOURCES; APPLIED ECONOMETRICS |
| PETER SCHIESS |
FOREST ENGINEERING; HARVEST AND TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; FOREST ROAD DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; MECHANICAL HARVEST OPERATIONS |
| SANDOR TOTH |
DECISION ANALYSES IN NATURAL RESOURCES; SPATIAL OPTIMIZATION; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; HARVEST SCHEDULING |
| ERIC TURNBLOM |
FOREST GROWTH AND YIELD MODELING; SAMPLING AND INVENTORY; BIOMETRICS |
For further information;
Interest Group Coordinator: Dr. Gerard Schreuder
College of Forest Resources
Box 352100
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-2100
email gsch@u.washington.edu; FAX 206-685-3091; Phone 206-685-0887
For admissions packet:
Office of Student Services
College of Forest Resources
Box 352100
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington 98195-2100
Phone:206-543-7081; FAX 206-685-0790; email cfradv@u.washington.edu
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