Master of Science in Natural Resources
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This Master of Science in Natural Resources degree program allows graduate students to pursue advanced topics within a specific area of natural resources, ranging from basic scientific inquiry to broader, management-oriented challenges. It requires you to successfully complete and defend a thesis. You must also select a technical option as your minor.
Students pursuing a Master of Science in Natural Resources degree (MS-NR) have explored a variety of advanced scientific problems involving natural resources, including highly-focused inquiry into basic cellular questions and broader inquiries into natural resource factors affecting plant and animal species, specific environments, entire ecosystems and the planet.
MS-NR degrees are available in a number of technical options, ranging from the ecology and restoration of forested ecosystems to environmental impact analysis, natural resource policy, international resources, remote sensing and geographic information systems, biometrics, bioremediation, biotechnology, hydrology, international programs, landscape ecology, restoration ecology, wetlands restoration ecology and more.
In the past, Master of Science in Natural Resources candidates have explored such topics as:
- Analyzing environmental impact statements for highway projects;
- Decision support methodology for the design of animal waste management strategies;
- Ecological risk assessment of non-point source pollution for stream life; and
- Remote sensing procedures to update geospatial datasets after landscape altering events.
For a look at other topics Master of Science in Natural Resources graduate students have pursued, please visit the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Library of the NC State Graduate School.
Declaring A Minor
Students in the Master of Science in Natural Resources program do not need to declare a minor.
Technical Options
The following Natural Resources technical options are available to graduate students in the MS-NR and MNR degree programs in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources:
