Dean's Message

The Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management at UNB offers one of the very best undergraduate and graduate programs in North America. Here you will find professors who are both scientists and gifted teachers; and students who are excited about learning and eager to make a difference. Our Faculty is small enough that your professors will know you by name and large enough that we can help you develop the scientific understanding, management skills, ethics and passion that our professions demand.

This is an exciting time for students and professionals in forestry, natural resources and environmental management. Citizens, businesses and governments are increasingly aware that environmental science and sound resource management are the keys to a sustainable future. Our forests are increasing in value as a source of renewable energy, a buffer for climate change and a reservoir for biodiversity. Based on life-cycle analysis and carbon footprint, wood remains our most environmentally friendly building material. An increasingly thirsty world is seeking ways to ensure that its watersheds produce the high quality water that we all depend upon. Urbanization and a growing human population mean that we must find ways to manage our natural resources for all of the values that they can provide.

Undergraduate students in our Faculty can choose among bachelor’s degrees in environment and natural resources, forestry and forest engineering. All three of these degrees offer strong job prospects. Our field laboratories and nearby university forests mean that you will find yourself working outdoors nearly every day. You will make friends here that will last a life time and there will be time for fun as well as academic challenges.

Our faculty hosts graduate students from 23 nations. We offer traditional research degrees (M.Sc. and Ph.D.) as well as professional graduate degrees in Environmental Management, Forestry and Forest Engineering. Many of our faculty members are among the world’s best in their disciplines. We have particular strengths in forest biology, wildlife management, soil and watershed management, quantitative modeling, climate change, engineered wood products, sustainable development and resource social science.

We are looking for students who want to make the world a better place by applying their scientific understanding and management skills to some of society’s most important problems. I encourage you to explore our web sites and make an on-campus visit.

Don Floyd
Dean