School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences

graduate

Director: T. “Red” Baker III
Graduate Coordinators:
S. Bohlman (Forest Resources and Conservation)
J. Patterson (Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences)

Since 1937, the Change to School of Forest, Fisheries and Geomatics Sciences has prepared students for professional careers caring for natural resources. We emphasize the role of people in managing both terrestrial and aquatic systems to produce the myriad of benefits and services they provide. Our faculty have a broad range of interests, including ecology, economics/policy, and recreation/education, and are united by an interest in environmental resources, rather than by traditional academic discipline. The School is composed of three programmatic areas: Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Forest Resources and Conservation, and Geomatics, which is a concentration within the Forest Resources and Conservation major. These programs offer seven degree options (including two professional master's degrees) and concentrations and certificates in a wide range of areas. Complete descriptions of the minimum requirements for each of our available degrees are provided within the Graduate Degrees section of this catalog.

Combination Degree Programs
The School offers a combination bachelor’s/master’s degree program that allows qualified students to earn both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in one semester. Ph.D. students may pursue a co-major with the Department of Statistics (see below).

In addition, students may simultaneously earn a juris doctorate from the College of Law and a graduate degree (M.F.R.C., M.S., or Ph.D.) in Forest Resources and Conservation.

Concentrations
SFFGS graduate students completing 15 or more credit hours in designated courses may earn a concentration in the following areas: Ecological Restoration, Geomatics or Natural Resource Policy and Administration. For additional information, please go to the SFFGS website.

Statistics Co-Major
Ph.D. students with the School may elect the co-major offered jointly with the Department of Statistics. Students focusing on forest genetics, tree improvement, and other statistics-intensive aspects of natural resource management are potential candidates for this option.

Certificates
SFFGS offers a variety of undergraduate and graduate certificate programs. For more information. Please go here.

For additional information, please visit the School’s web page at https://ffgs.ifas.ufl.edu.

CONTACT

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P.O. Box 110410
1745 McCarty Drive
136 NEWINS-ZIEGLER HALL
GAINESVILLE, FL 32611-0410
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Affiliated Faculty

Abd-Elrahman, Amr H.
Professor
Adams, Alison Eve
Associate Professor
Adams, Damian
Professor
Allen, Micheal S.
Professor
Andreu, Michael G.
Associate Professor
Asche, Frank
Professor
Austin, James D.
Professor
Baker, Terrell T.
Professor
Baker, Shirley M.
Professor
Barry, Savanna C.
Extension Agent
Bartels, Wendy Lin
Research Assistant Scientist
Behringer, Donald Charles
Professor
Bisesi, Joseph Hopkin
Associate Professor
Bohlman, Stephanie Ann
Professor
Bojko, Jamie
Associate Professor
Bracho-Garrillo, Rosvel
Research Associate Scientist
Braswell, Anna E.
Assistant Professor
Broadbent, Eben North
Associate Professor
Camp, Edward Vincent
Associate Professor
Carlson, Andrew Kenneth
Courtesy Assistant Professor
Carney, Tyler Jonathan
Other
Chagaris, David D.
Research Assistant Professor
Cichra, Charles
Professor
Clarke, Mysha
Assistant Professor
Cohen, Matthew J.
Professor
Collins, Angela S.
Assistant Scientist
Crandall, Raelene M.
Associate Professor
Cropper, Wendell P.
Professor
Cushing, Tamara Lee
Assistant Professor
Dai, Chunli
Assistant Professor
Demopoulos, Amanda
Other
DiMaggio, Matthew A.
Associate Professor
Donovan, Victoria M.
Assistant Professor
Ennes, Megan E.
Assistant Curator
Francis-Floyd, Ruth
Professor
Hedman, Craig Wallace
Courtesy Assistant Professor
Hill, Jeffrey Eugene
Professor
Hochmair, Hartwig H.
Professor
Hulcr, Jiri
Professor
Iannone, Basil V.
Associate Professor
Ibarra Castro, Leonardo
Assistant Professor
Jacinto Pereira, Wendell
Research Assistant Professor
Johnson, Andra Darrel
Professor
Johnson, Daniel Jacob
Associate Professor
Juhasz, Levente
Assistant Professor
Jusino, Michelle Alice
Assistant Professor
Kainer, Karen A.
Professor
Kirst, Matias
Distinguished Professor
Klauberg Silva, Carine
Research Assistant Scientist
Klein, Ryan William
Assistant Professor
Klizentyte, Kotryna
Assistant Professor
Lamb, Robert Wellington
Research Assistant Professor
Lassiter, Howard A.
Assistant Professor
Lescord, Gretchen
Assistant Professor
Li, Yue
Assistant Professor
Lorenzen, Kai
Professor
Lowerre-Barbieri, Susan K.
Research Professor
Martin, Timothy A.
Professor
Mcguire, Maia Patterson
Extension Agent
Minogue, Patrick J.
Associate Professor
Murie, Debra Jean
Professor
Ohs, Cortney L.
Associate Professor
Patterson, William Frank
Professor
Patterson, Joshua T.
Associate Professor
Peter, Gary Frank
Professor
Phlips, Edward J.
Professor
Putz, Francis E.
Distinguished Professor
Qiu, Jiangxiao
Associate Professor
Reisinger, Lindsey Sargent
Assistant Professor
Ribeiro Do Valle, Denis
Associate Professor
Siders, Zachary
Assistant Professor
Silva, Carlos Alberto
Assistant Professor
Stein, Taylor Verne
Professor
Subramaniam, Kuttichantran
Research Associate Professor
Tuckett, Quenton
Assistant Professor
Vogel, Jason
Associate Professor
Wilkinson, Benjamin E.
Associate Professor
Wonkka, Carissa L.
Assistant Professor
Yang, Huiping
Associate Professor
Yanong, Roy P.
Professor

Course List by Depts
Code	Title	Credits
EVR 5705	Natural Resources and Innovation Systems	3
EVR 6933	Seminar	1
EVR 6942	Supervised Teaching in Ecology and Environment	0-3
EVR 6979	Nonthesis Master's Project	1-2
FAS 5015	Aquaculture I	3
FAS 5203	Biology of Fishes	3
FAS 5203C	Biology of Fishes	4
FAS 5255	Diseases of Warmwater Fish	3
FAS 5276C	Field Ecology of Aquatic Organisms	4
FAS 5335C	Applied Fisheries Statistics	4
FAS 5407	Biology of Fishery and Aquaculture Invertebrates	3
FAS 5901	Scientific Thinking in Ecology	2
FAS 6154	Marine Adaptations: Environmental Physiology	3
FAS 6165	Fish and Crustacean Nutrition	3
FAS 6176	Algae Biology and Ecology	3
FAS 6238	Environmental Physiology of Fishes	3
FAS 6256	Fish and Aquatic Invertebrate Histology	3
FAS 6272	Marine Ecological Processes	3
FAS 6273	Trophic Ecology of Fishes	3
FAS 6275	Freshwater Ecology	3
FAS 6306C	Spatial Sciences for Marine Environmental Characterization	4
FAS 6310C	Fish & Limnology	4
FAS 6337C	Fish Population Dynamics	4
FAS 6339C	Advanced Quantitative Fisheries Assessment	4
FAS 6355C	Fisheries Management	4
FAS 6356	Fisheries Enhancement	2
FAS 6356	Fisheries Enhancement	2
FAS 6357	Marine Protected Areas	3
FAS 6360	Invasion Ecology of Aquatic Animals	3
FAS 6408	Aquaculture II	3
FAS 6416	Spatial Ecology and Modeling of Fish Populations	2
FAS 6426	Applied Aquaculture Genetics	3
FAS 6705	Fisheries and aquaculture: An economics perspective	3
FAS 6905	Individual Study	1-6
FAS 6910	Supervised Research	1-5
FAS 6932	Special Topics in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences	1-4
FAS 6933	Graduate Symposium	1
FAS 6935	Contemporary Problems in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences	2
FAS 6940	Supervised Teaching	1-5
FAS 6971	Research for Master's Thesis	1-15
FAS 7979	Advanced Research	1-12
FAS 7980	Research for Doctoral Dissertation	1-15
FNR 5015	Ecosystem Restoration Principles and Practice	3
FNR 5016	Ecology and Restoration of Longleaf Pine Ecosystems	3
FNR 5072C	Environmental Education Program Development	3
FNR 5405	Forest Information Systems	3
FNR 5608	Research Planning	3
FNR 5625	Managing Public Lands and Waters	3
FNR 5626	Forest Resource Manag	3
FNR 6006	Silviculture: Concepts and Application	3
FNR 6046C	Lidar Remote Sensing for Forestry Applications	3
FNR 6061	Conflict and Collaboration in Natural Resources	3
FNR 6075	Science Communication & Public Education	3
FNR 6085	Landscape Planning for Ecotourism	3
FNR 6134	Physiology of Forest Trees	3
FNR 6308	Urban Forestry	3
FNR 6314	Issues in Southeastern Forest Health	3
FNR 6315	Tropical Forestry	3
FNR 6406C	Lidar Remote Sensing for Forestry Applications	3
FNR 6462	Foundations of Geospatial AI for Natural Resource Management	3
FNR 6504	Analysis of Forest Ecosystems	3
FNR 6505	Forest Ecosystem Health	3
FNR 6506	Forest Ecosystem Resilience	3
FNR 6516	Management and Restoration of Invaded Ecosystems	3
FNR 6560	Intro to Bayesian Statistics for Life Sciences	3
FNR 6564	Ecohydrology	3
FNR 6565	Simulation Analysis of Forest Ecosystems	3
FNR 6607	Conservation Behavior	3
FNR 6615C	Visualization of Ecological Data	3
FNR 6620	Community Forest Management	3
FNR 6628	Watershed Management and Restoration	3
FNR 6665	Natural Resource Economics and Valuation	3
FNR 6668	Natural Resources in a Changing Climate	3
FNR 6669	Policy and Economics of Natural Resources	3
FNR 6905	Research Problems in Forest Resources and Conservation	1-6
FNR 6910	Supervised Research	1-5
FNR 6933	Seminar	1
FNR 6934	Topics in Forest Resources and Conservation	1-4
FNR 6940	Supervised Teaching	1-5
FNR 6971	Research for Master's Thesis	1-15
FNR 7979	Advanced Research	1-12
FNR 7980	Research for Doctoral Dissertation	1-15
GIS 6103	GIS Programming and Customization	3
GIS 6116	Geographic Information Systems Analysis	3
GIS 6116	Geographic Information Systems Analysis	3
PCB 5530	Plant Molecular Biology and Genomics	3
PCB 6528	Plant Cell and Developmental Biology	3
PCB 6555	Introduction to Quantitative Genetics	3
PCB 6971	Research for Master's Thesis	1-15
PCB 7979	Advanced Research	1-12
PCB 7980	Research for Doctoral Dissertation	1-15
SUR 5365	Digital Mapping	3
SUR 5385	Remote Sensing Applications	3
SUR 5386	Image Processing for Remote Sensing	3
SUR 5525	Least Squares Adjustment Computations	3
SUR 6346	Marine Geomatics	3
SUR 6355	Analytical Photogrammetry	3
SUR 6377	Geospatial Application of UASs	3
SUR 6395	Topics in Geographic Information Systems	3
SUR 6502C	Foundations of UAS Mapping	3
SUR 6535	GPS-INS Integration	3
SUR 6536	Geodesy and Geodetic Positioning	3
SUR 6538	Principles and Applications of Radar Interferometry	3
SUR 6905	Special Problems in Geomatics	1-6
SUR 6934	Topics in Geomatics	1-4
SUR 6940C	Practicum in UAS Mapping	3