We address impacts and potential mitigation of threats to the health of forests in Pennsylvania and beyond. Threats include forest loss, climate change, invasive species, pollution, and more.
Research focuses on scientifically-based management options for restoring and maintaining healthy, natural, and sustainable ecosystems.
Faculty and students develop and utilize new data products, remote sensing tools, and computational systems that enable breakthroughs in scaling up, in order to enhance the social value of natural landscapes and better understand ecological relationships and social tradeoffs at different scales.
Our department has a long and distinguished role in watershed science. We’re building watershed management knowledge in order to increase resilience of water quantity and quality threatened by climate change, development, and more.
The Department of Ecosystems Science and Management is home to the Center for Private Forests and the Schatz Center for Tree Molecular Genetics.
Many of our faculty maintain websites highlighting their research programs and facilities. Our laboratories—whether in house or out in the environment—support a broad range of study.
We partner with natural resource management organizations to provide students opportunities to learn and study with professionals and scientists—partnerships that contribute to the conservation and enhancement of our natural resources.
