Research

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Overview

The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies conducts world-leading research that advances understanding in the many dimensions of sustainability, crossing multiple disciplines and scales from local to global, from urban to rural and from managed to wild.

Faculty Expertise

The School’s faculty conducts original, path-breaking research across a range of topics and disciplines, creating new knowledge and innovative analyses in the areas of biodiversity, forestry, global climate, industry, law and economics, urban systems, water, and social ecology.

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Recent Milestones

Research News

Study to Examine Human-Robot Collaboration to Reduce Recycling ‘Bottleneck’

Will Marshland Keep up With Rising Seas? Study Finds Clues in the Sediment

Recent Doctoral Grad Honored For Contributions to Soil Science

Water Scarcity and Inflexible Demand Puts World’s River Basins at Risk

Keeping It in the Family

How Inland Waters ‘Breathe’ Carbon – And What it Means for Global Systems

2019 Research Conference Showcases Scholarship of F&ES Students, Postdocs

The Complicated Future of Offshore Wind Power in the U.S.

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Publications

Chen, ML., CL. Li, C. Zeng, F. Zhang, P. A. Raymond, and J. Hur “Immobilization of relic anthropogenic dissolved organic matter from alpine rivers in the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau in Winter.” Water Research.
Nori-Sarma, A., G. B. Anderson, A. Rajiva, G. ShahAzhar, P. Gupta, M. S. Pednekar, J-Y. Son, R. D. Peng, and M. L. Bell “The impact of heat waves on mortality in Northwest India.” Environmental Research.
Yona, L., B. Cashore, and O. J. Schmitz “Integrating policy and ecology systems to achieve path dependent climate solutions.” Environmental Science & Policy.
Jin, L., J. D. Berman, YW. Zhang, G. Thurston, YQ. Zhang, and M. L. Bell “Land use regression study in Lanzhou, China: A pilot sampling and spatial characteristics of pilot sampling sites.” Atmospheric Environment.
Golzar, F., N. Heeren, S. Hellweg, and R. Roshandel “A comparative study on the environmental impact of greenhouses: A probabilistic approach.” Science of The Total Environment.
Marlon, J. R., S. van der Linden, P. D. Howe, A. Leiserowitz, S. H. L. Woo, and K. Broad “Detecting local environmental change: the role of experience in shaping risk judgments about global warming.” Journal of Risk Research.
Hosen, J. D., K. S. Aho, A. P. Appling, E. C. Creech, J. Hoyle Fair, R. O. Hall Jr., E. D. Kyzivat, R. S. Lowenthal, S. Matt, J. Morrison, J. E. Saiers, J. B. Shanley, L. C. Weber, B. Yoon, and P. A. Raymond “Enhancement of primary production during drought in a temperate watershed is greater in larger rivers than headwater streams.” Limnology and Oceanography.

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Ph.D. Program

Across the world, across landscapes and across disciplines, our more than 75 doctoral students are working collaboratively with the School’s world-renowned faculty to design cutting-edge research projects that aim to understand and solve complex environmental challenges.

M.E.Sc. Program

The Master of Environmental Science (M.E.Sc.) program provides a deep disciplinary focus on environmental issues, combining training in the philosophy and practice of science with extensive research that contributes toward basic and applied knowledge.

M.F.S. Program

Our storied history began more than 100 years ago, as a forestry school. Master of Forestry Science (M.F.S.) students continue to build upon that legacy, conducting innovative research on the management and policy of forest resources across a wide array of ecosystems.