External Partnerships
The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies has partnership agreements with numerous local, national, and international organizations beyond the Yale campus. The following are a few examples of these arrangements.
Hubbard Brook
The Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study in New Hampshire is a long-term multidisciplinary investigation of the structure, function, and interactions among atmospheric, terrestrial, and aquatic ecosystems. Started in 1963, Hubbard Brook is one of the oldest Long-Term Ecological Research sites supported by the National Science Foundation. As such, the facility has functioned as a national center and attracted investigators from a spectrum of biological and physical sciences.
F&ES Professor Emeritus F. Herbert Bormann was part of the team that initiated Hubbard Brook. Today the School's students and faculty benefit from more than thirty-five years of data and hands-on clinical experience. The Hubbard Brook ecosystem provides collaborators with background data drawn from long-term records of climate, hydrology, precipitation, and streamwater chemistry; and with biological data from numerous ongoing studies. Cooperative research at Hubbard Brook has contributed to a better understanding of the northern hardwood ecosystem. The Hubbard Brook investigators are achieving the most fundamental aspect of ecosystem studies—the integration of data into a functioning scheme of ecosystem behavior through time.
National University of Singapore
The National University of Singapore is a top research university with a far-reaching faculty and a multinational student body. The University offers a Master of Science in Environmental Management that provides environmental management education for senior and midlevel managers in corporations, institutions, and government and nongovernmental organizations. This new program is multidisciplinary, with the combined resources of seven of the University's faculties, and international, drawing on the expertise of established environmental agencies and institutions both locally and globally.
In 2001 the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies entered into an official agreement with the National University to share scientific, academic, and technical resources; exchange faculty and students; and cooperate in research, outreach, and conferences.
The New York Botanical Garden
The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies has enjoyed a reciprocal relationship with the Graduate Studies Program at the New York Botanical Garden for many years. Begun in 1896, the Botanical Garden program currently enrolls thirty-nine students who are carrying out studies in systematic and economic botany at field sites around the world. The program's expertise spans the spectrum of both systematic and economic botany. It is operated in conjunction with several other academic institutions, including the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
The resources of the New York Botanical Garden include one of the largest botanical libraries in the world, with more than 1.25 million accessions, an herbarium with over six million specimens and 10,000 species of living plants housed in several greenhouses, as well as an electron microscope, environmental chambers, and instrumentation for radiobiological, biochemical, anatomical, molecular, phytochemical, chemosystematic, numerical taxonomy, and vegetational studies.
Tata Energy Research Institute
The Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI), a not-for-profit organization in New Delhi, India, was founded in 1974. Over the years, TERI has expanded from its initial purpose of documentation and information dissemination to become a dynamic and flexible organization with a global vision and a local focus. Twenty years ago, the institute initiated research projects in the fields of energy, environment, and sustainable development. Today, TERI is an internationally recognized center for research and outreach, and this reputation is rapidly being enhanced by the educational opportunities offered by the TERI School of Advanced Studies, which was granted "Deemed-to-be-University" status by the government of India in 1998.
The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies entered into an official agreement with TERI in 2001, whereby each organization agreed to support the other's faculty and student activities, thus expanding the resources of both learning institutions while fostering international relationships.
United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
In September 2006, UNITAR and Yale's environment school signed a Memorandum of Agreement concerning cooperation in the areas of research, education and capacity building for environmental management and sustainable development.
UNITAR is an autonomous body within the United Nations which was established in 1965 to enhance the effectiveness of the UN through training and research. UNITAR's environmental training and capacity building programs include specialized programs in the areas of chemicals and waste management, climate change, environmental information systems, environmental governance and law, and decentralized cooperation.
Capacity development to support implementation of Multi-lateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) is an area in which UNITAR has a developed specialized expertise and implements country-based projects in cooperation with international, national and local partners including, for example, UNDP, UNEP and MEA Convention Secretariats.
During the course of 2006/2007, the Yale-UNITAR collaboration focuses on initiating the UNITAR/Yale Environment and Democracy Initiative hosted at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and identifying internship and fellowship opportunities for students and graduates at UNITAR Headquarters in Geneva and UNITAR-supported projects in the field.
For additional information, please contact Achim Halpaap, Principal Program Coordinator, UNITAR and Research Associate, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (achim.halpaap@yale.edu).
External Joint Degree Programs
The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies also has joint-degree agreements with the Pace University School of Law and the Vermont Law School. Further information on these programs is available through the admissions office.
For more information, contact Emly McDiarmid, director of admissions, 203-432-5138, or via email, emly.mcdiarmid@yale.edu;
Brad Gentry, advisor on joint F&ES-law programs, 203-432-9374, bradford.gentry@yale.edu; or Gordon Geballe, associate dean for student affairs, 203-432-5122, gordon.geballe@yale.edu.
Hubbard Brook
The Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study in New Hampshire is a long-term multidisciplinary investigation of the structure, function, and interactions among atmospheric, terrestrial, and aquatic ecosystems. Started in 1963, Hubbard Brook is one of the oldest Long-Term Ecological Research sites supported by the National Science Foundation. As such, the facility has functioned as a national center and attracted investigators from a spectrum of biological and physical sciences.
F&ES Professor Emeritus F. Herbert Bormann was part of the team that initiated Hubbard Brook. Today the School's students and faculty benefit from more than thirty-five years of data and hands-on clinical experience. The Hubbard Brook ecosystem provides collaborators with background data drawn from long-term records of climate, hydrology, precipitation, and streamwater chemistry; and with biological data from numerous ongoing studies. Cooperative research at Hubbard Brook has contributed to a better understanding of the northern hardwood ecosystem. The Hubbard Brook investigators are achieving the most fundamental aspect of ecosystem studies—the integration of data into a functioning scheme of ecosystem behavior through time.
National University of Singapore
The National University of Singapore is a top research university with a far-reaching faculty and a multinational student body. The University offers a Master of Science in Environmental Management that provides environmental management education for senior and midlevel managers in corporations, institutions, and government and nongovernmental organizations. This new program is multidisciplinary, with the combined resources of seven of the University's faculties, and international, drawing on the expertise of established environmental agencies and institutions both locally and globally.
In 2001 the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies entered into an official agreement with the National University to share scientific, academic, and technical resources; exchange faculty and students; and cooperate in research, outreach, and conferences.
The New York Botanical Garden
The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies has enjoyed a reciprocal relationship with the Graduate Studies Program at the New York Botanical Garden for many years. Begun in 1896, the Botanical Garden program currently enrolls thirty-nine students who are carrying out studies in systematic and economic botany at field sites around the world. The program's expertise spans the spectrum of both systematic and economic botany. It is operated in conjunction with several other academic institutions, including the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
The resources of the New York Botanical Garden include one of the largest botanical libraries in the world, with more than 1.25 million accessions, an herbarium with over six million specimens and 10,000 species of living plants housed in several greenhouses, as well as an electron microscope, environmental chambers, and instrumentation for radiobiological, biochemical, anatomical, molecular, phytochemical, chemosystematic, numerical taxonomy, and vegetational studies.
Tata Energy Research Institute
The Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI), a not-for-profit organization in New Delhi, India, was founded in 1974. Over the years, TERI has expanded from its initial purpose of documentation and information dissemination to become a dynamic and flexible organization with a global vision and a local focus. Twenty years ago, the institute initiated research projects in the fields of energy, environment, and sustainable development. Today, TERI is an internationally recognized center for research and outreach, and this reputation is rapidly being enhanced by the educational opportunities offered by the TERI School of Advanced Studies, which was granted "Deemed-to-be-University" status by the government of India in 1998.
The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies entered into an official agreement with TERI in 2001, whereby each organization agreed to support the other's faculty and student activities, thus expanding the resources of both learning institutions while fostering international relationships.
United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
In September 2006, UNITAR and Yale's environment school signed a Memorandum of Agreement concerning cooperation in the areas of research, education and capacity building for environmental management and sustainable development.
UNITAR is an autonomous body within the United Nations which was established in 1965 to enhance the effectiveness of the UN through training and research. UNITAR's environmental training and capacity building programs include specialized programs in the areas of chemicals and waste management, climate change, environmental information systems, environmental governance and law, and decentralized cooperation.
Capacity development to support implementation of Multi-lateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) is an area in which UNITAR has a developed specialized expertise and implements country-based projects in cooperation with international, national and local partners including, for example, UNDP, UNEP and MEA Convention Secretariats.
During the course of 2006/2007, the Yale-UNITAR collaboration focuses on initiating the UNITAR/Yale Environment and Democracy Initiative hosted at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and identifying internship and fellowship opportunities for students and graduates at UNITAR Headquarters in Geneva and UNITAR-supported projects in the field.
For additional information, please contact Achim Halpaap, Principal Program Coordinator, UNITAR and Research Associate, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (achim.halpaap@yale.edu).
External Joint Degree Programs
The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies also has joint-degree agreements with the Pace University School of Law and the Vermont Law School. Further information on these programs is available through the admissions office.
For more information, contact Emly McDiarmid, director of admissions, 203-432-5138, or via email, emly.mcdiarmid@yale.edu;
Brad Gentry, advisor on joint F&ES-law programs, 203-432-9374, bradford.gentry@yale.edu; or Gordon Geballe, associate dean for student affairs, 203-432-5122, gordon.geballe@yale.edu.
